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To: Jonty30
For the Angel/man theory to work, angels and men must be close enough together biologically for it to work.

That's a good point, but theologians who say, "We don’t know how divine beings could produce offspring with humans, so it didn’t happen,” are committing a logical fallacy: lack of understanding is not proof of impossibility (argumentum ad ignorantiam).

Theologians who take the Genesis 6 account seriously from a supernatural perspective have proposed several explanations:

• Some believe the sons of God temporarily assumed physical, human-like bodies—just as angels do in Genesis 18–19—making procreation possible.

• Others suggest fallen angels possessed human men, corrupting the human line without direct angelic reproduction.

• Another view sees the union as involving forbidden knowledge—occult or genetic corruption—as described in 1 Enoch.

• And some simply accept the event as literal but mysterious, holding that ancient texts report spiritual realities without needing to satisfy modern biological frameworks.


40 posted on 05/10/2025 5:41:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux
That's a good point, but theologians who say, "We don’t know how divine beings could produce offspring with humans, so it didn’t happen,” are committing a logical fallacy: lack of understanding is not proof of impossibility (argumentum ad ignorantiam).

James Blish, in his novel "Black Easter" (originally serialized in "If" magazine in 1967 under the title "Faust Aleph-Null"), offers an elegant and clever explanation: That succubi (presenting-as-female demons) "couple" with human males and retain their semen. Then, after transforming themselves into incubi (presenting-as-male demons), use it to impregnate (willing) human females.

Regards,

68 posted on 06/01/2025 7:42:09 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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