Sorry. Don't buy it.
When you read the whole passage you find:
We have man multiplying on the earth... then the "sons of god" (whoever the fuck they may have been!) getting horny for human women - yes, very Greek like there. Then we have this rather pointless observation that man will only live 120 years...which must have been news to everyone who was dying at 35. Then this random "nephilim" comment and then we are back to the aforementioned "sons of god" getting laid. The "sons of god" and the mortal women produced the "mighty men of old." Nephilim seems like a rather pointless, random thought.
I hate to invoke the context argument but so often I find xtians who pick a word or phrase out of this pile of gibberish and concoct an entire story around it which suits their needs.
Other examples of this phenomenon include the "Bethlehem prophecy"
and the "suffering servant."
When you read the whole passage you find:
Quote:Genesis 6
English Standard Version (ESV)
Increasing Corruption on Earth
6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in[a] man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.”
4 The Nephilim[b] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.
We have man multiplying on the earth... then the "sons of god" (whoever the fuck they may have been!) getting horny for human women - yes, very Greek like there. Then we have this rather pointless observation that man will only live 120 years...which must have been news to everyone who was dying at 35. Then this random "nephilim" comment and then we are back to the aforementioned "sons of god" getting laid. The "sons of god" and the mortal women produced the "mighty men of old." Nephilim seems like a rather pointless, random thought.
I hate to invoke the context argument but so often I find xtians who pick a word or phrase out of this pile of gibberish and concoct an entire story around it which suits their needs.
Other examples of this phenomenon include the "Bethlehem prophecy"
and the "suffering servant."
