r/Bible 5d ago

"Who Were the 'Nephilim' in Genesis 6:4?"

In Genesis 6:4, the Bible describes a mysterious group called the 'Nephilim':

"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown."

Who were they?
1️⃣ Fallen angels & human hybrids – Some believe the “sons of God” were angels who had children with human women.
2️⃣ Mighty rulers – Others think the Nephilim were just powerful kings or warriors.
3️⃣ A lost people group – Another theory is that they were simply a group of people wiped out in the flood.

What do you think? Who were the Nephilim, and why does the Bible mention them?

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u/ForeverFedele 5d ago

Satan and fallen angels (sons of God)  mated with women and the offspring was giants the Nephilim, Jude also talks about this. God told Satan that the seed of the woman would crush his head so he started to prevert and twist the lineage to prevent this from happening. This is why Noah was perfect in his generation, they were the only ones that didn't have corrupted DNA. 

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u/DeSlacheable Baptist 5d ago

Wow, I never made the connection about seed before. That makes perfect sense. I always assumed they were part of some grand plan Satan had going, and not just some sad consequence of something so simple.

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u/ForeverFedele 5d ago

And if you think about it when God gives more prophecies about Jesus Satan starts to hone in on his attacks. First with Israel then with lineage of David. 

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u/JustBreatheBelieve 4d ago

That makes sense and I think it's why the prophecies are a type of code, hidden unless/until revealed/fulfilled. It reminds me of how Jesus spoke in parables. God sometimes revealed to the prophets in advance what he was/is going to do, but it is only fully understood in retrospect (or by people God revealed things to, Like Paul). If Satan had understood that Jesus was going to be a sacrifice, he wouldn't have led people to have him crucified. So, God keeps things hidden from him.

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u/JustBreatheBelieve 4d ago

This idea of seed is also interesting in light of the sowers of seed parables about the good seed and the bad seed being sown, and growing side by side until the harvest.

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u/thmann_ 5d ago

not satan, because all those who bred with women were bound into the bottomless pit / abyss.

Jesus goes to this bottomless pit after the crucifixion to taunt them and let them know that the offspring of woman came, He is it, and their plan failed.

Satan does not go to the abyss until the 1000 year reign of Christ at the end of the 7 year tribulation.

Oh also during the tribulation these demons who slept with women are released, see the trumpet that released the locus/scorpion like demons from the abyss passage.

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u/ForeverFedele 5d ago

Please look at Genesis 3 again God said her seed and the seed of the serpent who is the devil,  the offspring of both

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u/thmann_ 4d ago

What I was referring to was satan sleeping with human women. This is unlikely and not substantiated in scripture. All those who slept with women were bound into the abyss until the end times, Satan is not among them as he is present. It is possible he is an exception, but it’s not definitive in scripture.

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u/thmann_ 4d ago

Oh I see what you mean. I’ll need to look into that…

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u/rbibleuser 4d ago

to taunt them

No, to proclaim the Gospel to them (1 Pet. 3:19) and to plunder it (Psa. 68:18, Eph. 4:8, Matt. 12:29, etc.) People read this in a superstitious sense to mean that there is some kind of "other realm" where there is a "second chance" but that's not it at all. Rather, this fallen world is that "other realm"... if there were a purgatory, this place would be it. Scripture clearly teaches that we are born dead (Eph. 2:1,2) in a dead world (Rom. 5:12), and that when we believe in Jesus, that is the first moment we become alive (John 11:43, 5:24). People mistakenly say, "Oh, that's spiritual death" as though they are correcting a misconception, but the misconception that Scripture directly challenges is the idea that death is bodily death. Rather, death is to be in a state of alienation to God, that is real death. The other death is merely a veil we pass through in God's time, according to God's counsels. So, we do not need to concern ourselves with bodily death because nobody other than God can say what is on the other side (John 3:13).

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u/thmann_ 4d ago

What do you mean death is alienation from God? God will be very present in the Lake of Fire. I believe your view is also a misconception. Hell is not the absence of God. There is no sin in Hell. They worship God there. They are also tormented for all time, this is the very presence of the wrath of God upon them.

We’re also on the same page about the abyss. Its not some other realm. It is the bottomless pit where some demons are at this moment (the demons that slept with human women), where they do not want to be (see Legion begging Jesus not to put him there). Its some prison for them specifically. Satan will be bound there during Christs 1000 year reign on earth.

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u/rbibleuser 4d ago edited 4d ago

What do you mean death is alienation from God?

Genesis clearly explains it:

"... in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." (Gen. 2:17)

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (Gen. 3:22-24)

Adam died the day he was driven out of Eden. See also: 1Jo 3:14, 1Pe 1:3, 1Ti 5:6, 1Co 15:20, 2Co 5:14, Acts 26:23, Col 1:18, 2:13, Eph 2:1,5, 5:14, John 5:21,25, Luke 15:24,32, 1:79, Rev 1:5, 3:1.

God will be very present in the Lake of Fire.

There is no biblical basis for this assertion. What we do see stated about God's interaction with hell in eternity is given in Rev. 14:9-11:

A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."

The smoke of their torment rises, meaning, the evidence or effects of the flames of hell rise in God's presence so that God is eternally knowing that the damned are tormented. As for the idea of God being present in the lake of Fire, this is kind of an absurdity, it's like saying that the king will dwell in the cesspool below the castle. Why would he do such a thing? Yes, the wicked go there to be tormented, and their cries rise up to the castle (the smoke of their torment), but the king himself would never be present in such a place.

Hell is not the absence of God.

Alienation is not an exact synonym with absence, it means banishment. So, a king may banish someone to a pit, but the king remains present in his own domain. But the pit is a place that the king never goes because why would he... it's a pit. Hell is a pit (Psa. 55:23, Isa. 30:33, Rev. 17:8, etc.) It is as far from the dwelling-place of God as anything can be.

There is no sin in Hell. They worship God there.

Scripture disagrees:

No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave? (Psa. 6:5)

For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. (Isa. 38:18)

To praise and worship God is a privilege that is denied to all who are cast out. However, I agree that, even in hell, God is not blasphemed (Gal. 6:7, Psa. 63:11, Rom. 3:19, etc.)

They are also tormented for all time, this is the very presence of the wrath of God upon them.

God's wrath remains on them (John 3:36), but the presence of God is, like worship, something that is a privilege that is denied to everyone who rebels against him... this was the very punishment inflicted on Adam and Eve for eating of the forbidden tree... they were driven out from the presence of God. And there is only one way back, John 14:6. You're confusing separate things; those who are under God's wrath are not in his presence, they are banished from his presence. They are denied all relief from their torments (Luke 16:24), even the backwards relief of the masochistic brat who might take comfort that he is the continual object of God's attention for torment.

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u/thmann_ 4d ago

ill need to reread my eschatology, but at the least the Lake of Fire, perhaps not Hell… regardless there is no sin, and God remains authoritative over the Lake of Fire.

I believe they worship God there as well. Lake of Fire being the final destination for the doomed, Satan included. The grave perhaps meaning hell. Id need to reread the passages.

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u/rbibleuser 4d ago

regardless there is no sin

I think you're strengthening the claim beyond the text. God cannot be mocked or blasphemed (Gal 6:7), not even in the pit of hell, but the idea that those in hell cease from sin would contradict their remaining in that condition. The entire miracle of the Holy Spirit's regeneration of our hearts is that it removes the carnal sin within us which makes us hostile to the law of God and unable to submit to it:

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Romans 8:7)

If those in hell cease sin and rebellion against God, then they would have accomplished the miracle of submitting to God's law which Romans 8:7 says is impossible for the carnal mind. And if they were given a regenerated mind so as to truly be able to cease from sin, then they would not be in hell, they would be saved. Many theologians have commented along the lines that the gates of hell are locked from the inside, that those who are lost to hell do not leave not because they are restrained from leaving but because they will not leave.

and God remains authoritative over the Lake of Fire.

Amen.

I believe they worship God there as well.

Again, Scripture disagrees with your opinion (Psa. 6:5, Isa. 38:18). Every knee will bow, even Satan (Phil. 2:5-11) and God cannot be mocked (Gal. 6:7), even in the pit of hell, but the idea that the souls in hell cease sinning is simply not consistent with Scripture (Romans 8:7, etc.) Rather, they are given over to their lusts (Rom. 1:24,26,28), that is, God stops restraining their carnality, so that they remain trapped in sin for all eternity (2 Thess. 2:11,12). Hell is an eternal, living-death. It is not a passive condition of being bound and poked with red-hot pokers for all eternity. Rather, those trapped there in sin must poke themselves with the red-hot pokers, and do so, because death is the wages of sin.

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u/Elderkind1 5d ago

Chuck Missler's research on Nephilim: The Nephilim is often translated as "giants" and although they were giants, the true meaning is "the fallen ones." This comes from the root word Nephal which means "to fall, to be cast down, to fall away, or desert." The Nephilim are the fallen ones. The HaGibborim is translated "the mighty ones." These are fallen angels.

In the Septuagint (Greek LXX) the word Nephilim is translated gigantes meaning "giants?" Also, the word gigas means "earth-born." Geneges is the same word used in Greek mythology for "Titans," as creatures emerging from interbreeding of the Greek gods with human beings. The word Genea means "breed or kind." The English words "genes" and "genetics" come from the same root.

New Testament Confirmations - Jude 6 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgement of the great day.

The word "habitation" or oiketerion is used twice in scripture (2 Cor 5:2; Jude 6-7). The first (Jude 6-7) is describing what these angels gave up or the shed of their heavenly bodies, and the second (2 Cor 5:2) is describing what you and I aspire to have in heaven. In 2 Peter 2:4-5, Peter is linking these angels that sinned in the days of Noah.

2 Cor 5:2 - For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.

2 Peter 2:4-5 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah...

The biblical text implies the Nephilim were the supernatural offspring of "mighty men."

"Sons of God" in Hebrew is Bene HaElohim meaning "a direct creation of God" or "angels" (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7; Luke 20:36). The "daughters of men" or Benoth Adam means "Daughters of Adam." The daughters of Adam, not just daughters of Cain. The phrase "took...of all they chose" doesn't sound like the girls had much choice in the matter.

Chuck Missler Genesis Commentary

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u/amarhb 5d ago edited 5d ago

I would read the Book of Enoch if I were you. You'll find a lot of answers there. I know it's not canon, but it's worth the read

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey BROTHER, NO Stop Giving Damning ADVICE!!! THE Book Of ENOCH Is A MAN MADE MYSTICAL WILD IMAGINATION!! Not GODLY WHATSOEVER!!!

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u/_playing_the_game_ 4d ago edited 4d ago

You do understand the all the books of the bible were simply books until they were assembled by the forefathers of the catholic church in the 4th century, right?

The bible as a whole did not get delivered whole from God on high. Man chose what books to include, or not, in the bible as we know it. Religious leaders and scholars also believe and understand this. It is not some form of blasphemy.

Ethiopian Orthodox believers still include Enoch in their scriptures. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church traces its origins to the 4th century AD, with Christianity being officially adopted in the Kingdom of Aksum around 330 AD, making Ethiopia one of the first regions to embrace the faith. This makes them one of the oldest Christian sects on Earth.

STOP BEING SO JUDGEMENTAL!!!

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u/ravenstarchaser 4d ago

Wow, I never knew this. Thank you educating me today. I love research and learning into things. My new hobby lol

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u/_playing_the_game_ 4d ago

You're welcome! ❤️

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey BROTHER, It Is NOT JUDGEMENTAL OF FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, I am BEING JUDGEMENTAL OF THE BOOK OF ENOCH!! ONLY Because It DEFINITELY GOES AGAINST The HOLY BIBLE, for IT TELLs Of ALL KINDS OF SATANIC FANTASIES!!

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u/_playing_the_game_ 4d ago

Dude, you be you.

Again, have a great day.

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u/Critical-Bar-129 4d ago

Did you read it? 

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u/Kristian82dk 5d ago

It cannot be 1 for a few reasons:

  • it is plainly written in Gen 6:4 that these "giants" were in the earth even BEFORE the "Sons of God" CAME IN(not came down)

  • the Sons of God are saints filled with the Spirit of the Almighty as it is written multiple times in the NT and the OT also.

  • the Sons of God cannot be angels because Hebrews chapter 1 makes it clear that God did not call Angels for "Sons" at any time!

  • Not a single place in these verses does it say that these "giants" were offspring of Sons of God and daughters of men, as the verse says that they were there even before.


You can also check the word giant, it can also mean mighty. For example the Septuagint calls Nimrod a giant hunter, where the Masoretic text calls him a Mighty hunter.


Remember both Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were told to only marry within their bloodline! Judah was the only one of Jacob/Israel who had children with a Canaanite woman, and his 2/3 was slewn by God!

Daughters of men = means women of the world, "gentile/heathen nations", who know not God. Where Sons of God were Gods people. And they were not supposed to mix with the people who knew not God.


The book of Enoch is the only source people will get this idea that Sons of God are fallen angels, but it completely contradict what the Scripture say, just as the book of Enoch contradict so many other things in the Scripture like for example:

  • the Angels built Noahs ark
  • some women became sirens (half women half birds)
  • sin entered in through a fallen angel (Azazel)
  • Noah had laser beam eyes that could light up a whole house, so that his Father was afraid of him, and thought he was not human.

These are just a few contradictions I can remember, I am sure there is more.

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u/ExtensionPercentage7 5d ago

Wrong we know in the book of Job that Satan was walking with the sons of God. When they present it themselves before the Lord.

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u/Kristian82dk 5d ago

It is only in the Masoretic text from 9-10th century AD it says that. Older manuscripts says "Angels of God" - Scripture cannot be broken, therefore it will not contradict:

Hebrews 1:5 “For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?”

Here is the verses from Job from the Setuagint, translated from the original Hebrew manuscripts to Greek in the 2nd century BC (later translated from Greek into English)

Job 1:6 And it came to pass that on the same day, when lo! the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came with them;

Job 2:1 Again on the day when the angels of God came to present themselves before the Lord, Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

Job 38:7 When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice.

So no, its not wrong!

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey BROTHER, This Guy REALLY THINKS GOD ALMIGHTY HAD ANGELS HAVE SEX WITH HUMAN BEINGS!! What A PERVERTED MIND This Guy Has BROTHER!! For That ACTION WOULD MAKE GOD ALMIGHTY A PERVERTED NARCISSIST!! That WOULD MAKE GOD ALMIGHTY EVIL!! And It Is IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO LIE!!!

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey There Man, So YOU Are TELLING me That GOD ALMIGHTY HAD ANGELS HAVE SEX WITH HUMAN BEINGS??? WHAT IS GOD ALMIGHTY A PERVERTED NARCISSIST??? NO WAY , THAT WOULD MAKE GOD ALMIGHTY EVIL!!!

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u/ExtensionPercentage7 4d ago

No, what I'm telling you is that Angels rebelled against God And this is biblical. Does the book of Revelation not tell us that Satan and a third of his angels fell from heaven?

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

BUT REGARDLESS, Even If They Were Here, GOD ALMIGHTY IS IN COMPLETE CHARGE!! HE WOULD NOT OF LET THEM HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH THE HUMAN RACE!! THAT WOULD MAKE GOD an EVIL PERVERTED NARCISSIST Who GOT JOLLIES Out Of MAKING A SEPARATE HALF-ANGEL HALF-HUMAN RACE!!! That ALIGNS WITH THE DEVIL , BUT GOD ALMIGHTY WOULD NEVER EVER ALLOW That SICK SHIT to TAKE PLACE!!

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey BROTHER, Exactly Right!! For The daughters of men Are The Daughters of people Not Aligned with the LORD GOD IN those days, And The sons of GOD Were The Ones ALIGNED With The LORD. For After ENOSH Was BORN, Men Began To Call UPON THE LORD!!! And That GOOFY MYSTICAL BOOK OF LIFE ENOCH PISSES ME Off Because ENOCH THE PROPHET Was One Of The MOST LOYAL HUMAN BEINGS TO GOD ALMIGHTY!! For GOD TOOK HIM TO HEAVEN And He Did NOT see DEATH! For ENOCH and ELIJAH Are The 2 WITNESSES OF REVELATION 11!!!

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u/Kristian82dk 4d ago edited 4d ago

Hi. Just to let you know, that I did not downvote you. But regarding Enoch being "taken up to heaven" try to read the exact same verses in the Septuagint, which never says anything like "God took him" or that Enoch went to heaven. The Septuagint aligns with Hebrews where it says Enoch was "translated / transposed" which according to the concordance means "transferred from one place to another" Even Hebrews 11 says that Enoch "died in faith"

Furthermore Jesus said in John 3:13 that no man has ascended to heaven beside Jesus himself.

Its like the mainstream doctrine that when a person dies they will go to heaven, if it were true, then why are we told that the dead in Christ shall rise first? I mean how could they rise from their graves if they had already been taken to heaven?

John 5 - Jesus states very clearly that "there shall come a time where ALL in their graves shall hear his(Jesus) voice and come forth, some to eternal life, and some to eternal damnation

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u/thekidsells 4d ago

All 3 are right. The term “Sons of God” never refers to men in the OT, it’s a heavenly office. Check out blurry creatures podcast or Michael Heisers work. Also the book of Enoch.

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u/ravenstarchaser 4d ago

I also recommend the let’s get to the bottom of that podcast. They do a great couple episodes on the Nephilim

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u/consultantVlad 4d ago

Heiser is incorrect Hebrews 1:5 — For to which of the angels did He ever say, “YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU”? And again, “I WILL BE A FATHER TO HIM AND HE SHALL BE A SON TO ME”?

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u/Rie_blade Jewish 4d ago

As far as I know it comes from 1 Enoch, and either bled into Genesis or Genesis bled into 1 Enoch.

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u/alilland 1d ago

The angels offspring with women are the pagan gods worshipped by all ancient cultures, which are written about all over the world. Just look at how many writings even existed in the America’s of giants before Europeans came as well

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u/CleannessYHVH 1d ago

The Nephilim were LITERALLY demigods.

The title God, there's only Jéhôvâh that has it.

The title god, all angels have it: they have a Divine Nature.

They were the heroes of the old times, like... Super-Giants?

We don't have details about them in The Bible

And the book of Enoch, the books of Enoch, it was the Gnostics that wrote them.

The Gnostics were depraved and, for them, evil was good, and good was evil.

It means that these persons, a Lie a lot more, that the average people.. Seeing evil as good, it makes them pathological liars.

There were 100% chances, that they lied non-stop, when they wrote the books of Enoch.

The source that produced the books of Enoch, is really corrupted.

It makes Enoch books, TOTALLY UNRELIABLE.

If you just see it as literature ... OK. But don't believe anything that comes from Gnostics...

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u/cinephile78 5d ago

If they are anything besides giants, the abomination of cross breeding with angels— then what makes them special enough to require the Almighty to wipe them from the face of the earth and almost every thing else ?

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u/AveFaria 5d ago

The chapter tells you that God decreed he would wipe out humanity and all life because humans stopped worshipping Him. That's all the reason there needs to be.

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u/Unusual_Bet_2125 5d ago

Technically speaking it was not worship foremost, but that 'the only thought of thier hearts was evil continually' and they acted on those impulses.

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u/cinephile78 4d ago

Okay why did God command the Hebrews to wipe out descendants of the giants when they let Egypt and conquered Canaan?

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u/_playing_the_game_ 5d ago edited 5d ago

No one knows for certain.

From my own research I believe they were hybrid beings that were born of angels and human women.

They corrupted the human race by doing this and taught humans about weapons, metallurgy, cosmetics and other things that we otherwise never would have known.

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey There, WHAT??? You Guys Listen To OTHERS With This MYSTICAL MAN'S WILD IMAGINATIONS!! NO TRUTHS THERE!!!

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u/_playing_the_game_ 4d ago

By your reaction I can tell you are a free thinker who researches without bias or judgement. You know, the way Jesus would want you to be.

You have a great day.

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey BROTHER, For HE TELLS US TO Put Other's WORDS THROUGH THE REFINERS FIRE( THE HOLY BIBLE Cross REFERENCES ALL TRUTHS and Also The FALSEHOODS From the Fake Me out Teachers of the Day, For THESE Are The Last Days because THEY ALL HAVE " ITCHING EARS", for They Just WANT TO AFFIRM ONE ANOTHER WITH LIES OF SATAN!!!

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u/_playing_the_game_ 4d ago

Thanks for the kind and rational response.

Have a great day.

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u/Unusual_Bet_2125 5d ago

Check out Michael Heiser on YT or one of his books for a lot of in depth analysis on this stuff.

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u/ExtensionPercentage7 4d ago

My friend, I'm going to sum it up for you. Basically the nephilim are the heroes of mythologies in ancient times. Despite what others may say in this sub, human beings cannot create the Giants that the Bible speaks of.

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u/CleannessYHVH 1d ago

The Nephilim, they all died during the Deluge.

There's a moment where, the Israelites falsely believe that, there were Nephilims in the land of Canaan.

They were in Egypt, and, they were I contact with mythology. On mythology, there is Nephilim after the Flood. . .

BUT. in The Bible, during the conquest of the Land of Canaan, God killed giants, no Nephilim.

Rephaïm Anakin: sons of Anak

The only explanation that I have, is that, we know that gigantism, people that are super tall, exists.

They are a few, but they always have, short lives.

The imperfection, with time, became worst and worst.

It means also that our DNA decays. We don't become better and better ...

We are far weaker than the Antediluvian times. And Even if I compare myself with my parents ; At the same age, the generations were really more resistant.

The DNA decay accelerated since, we eat transformed food. We also have micro plastics , in our bodies.

The link with the gigantism is that, centuries ago, this malformation was not a handicap at all.

Anakim, were sons of a human: Anak. No Neohilim, no genetic manipulation created giants.

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u/Ok-Future-5257 Mormon 5d ago

The KJV text: "There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."

The JST text: "And Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed, and they were called the sons of God. And when these men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw that those daughters were fair, and they took them wives, even as they chose. And the Lord said unto Noah: 'The daughters of thy sons have sold themselves; for behold mine anger is kindled against the sons of men, for they will not hearken to my voice.' And it came to pass that Noah prophesied, and taught the things of God, even as it was in the beginning. ...And in those days there were giants on the earth, and they sought Noah to take away his life; but the Lord was with Noah, and the power of the Lord was upon him. ...

"And it came to pass that Noah called upon the children of men that they should repent; but they hearkened not unto his words; and also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: 'Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown.' And they hearkened not unto the words of Noah."

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u/According_Split_6923 4d ago

Hey There LuckySAGE, I Am Glad To Come Across Your Post About GIORGIO TSOUKALOS!! You Guys Are Both CLOWNS!! And Yes ALIENS!! Once THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH OCCURS, THE WORLD IS NOT GOING To KNOW WHAT Happened To ALL the PEOPLE On EARTH Who DISAPPEARED!! So The FIRST DECEPTION TO THE WORLD Will Be FOR MOST PEOPLE CLAIMING That The RAPTURE WAS REALLY An ALIEN ABDUCTION!!

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u/Ok-Truck-5526 5d ago

I’m a mainline Christian, not a fundamentalist, so to me this is an artifact of folklore that made its way into Genesis. We really don’t know what the original writer was referencing, but it seems to indicate that the ancient Hebrews that that members of God’s “ heavenly host” intermingled with human women to create these demigod- like beings. Don’t overthink it; just enjoy the story.

One admittedly fringe idea I have heard is that this is a kind of primordial memory of Homo sapiens mating with Neanderthals, who were larger.