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So, as you may remember form last time we came across this rather confusing opening scripture at the beginning of Genesis Ch 6.

When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

(Gen 6: 1-2)

I mentioned there are three main views as to who these “sons of God” are referring to.

The First theory is that these “Sons of God” y are the sons of early rulers or judges in Israel.

The second view is that this is just referring to the children of the line of Seth marrying outside the religiously observant group..

The third view, which has been the traditional view for centuries and it is that the Sons of God, are in fact, fallen angels. 

So, how do we reach that conclusion? The expression, “Sons of God”, only appears four times in the whole of the Old Testament. Here once in Genesis, and 3 times is in Job (Job Ch 1, 2, and 38) You may not be aware that the story told in the book of Job is set at the same time in biblical history as what we are reading about here. The Book of Job is set during the time of the Patriarchs. The Sons of God when mentioned in Job is clearly and indisputably talking about angels, fallen angels, led by Satan, Lucifer. So, the argument is that the Sons of God referred to here, in Genesis are also angels, because it is clearly used that way in this book and the book of Job.

This view is probably the only view which explains why the events were considered so serious that God felt He needed to send the flood? If Angels, fallen Angels, led by Lucifer had indeed married human women and contaminated the human race, then only a totally clean slate would seem appropriate. So that's the argument for saying at the Sons of God are fallen angels. I think that is what the Old Testament is saying, now what that actually means is much more difficult to interpret but I believe that is what is being said here and the New Testament confirms it. In the little book of Jude, towards the end of the New Testament, in verse 6 it says this. 

And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day

That's a very interesting passage of scripture which indicates that the Angels of verse 6 committed sexual sins and they went after strange flesh, as it says in the KJV. I believe that is a reference to Genesis chapter 6 and this suggests to many experts that this early part of Genesis says that fallen Angels cohabited with ordinary women. For the first 400 years of a Christian era this was the accepted interpretation of this passage until some people came along later and came up with other theories. This interpretation was usually accepted with some slight variations among all Jewish and Christians scholars for the first 400 years of church history. 

An interesting aside to me is many great theologians like D G Barnhouse and others say this is the inspiration behind the other Minoen, Greek, and even Norse mythologies which followed on. They say that within these texts lie the origin stories of all half human half demi-god figures presented in virtually all the worlds ancient mythologies. Remember the 1st 11 chapter of Genesis refer to a time before any other written accounts of history.Stories like the Greek legends and the Norse myths all hold their roots in these earliest of historical stories. (Not Marvel or DC) 

The idea here is the whole human race is corrupted by these acts and the Lord says; “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever”. What that actually means we shall try and get to the bottom of over these next few days.