I had an evidently well trained Rational Theologian arguing
the Sethite theory of Genesis 6 and insisting that the Nephilim in the Bible
were produced when the good men of Seth forced themselves on the wicked women
of Cain and that their offspring was simply more evil than others and fear of
them caused the people to exaggerate…
Numbers 13:33 “There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part
of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we
were in their sight.”
According to him, the giants in Numbers 13:33 were just evil men and the Bible
was in error and the spies were exaggerating out of fear. The Bible also lied
and exaggerated the size of Og’s bed and the stature of Goliath…
I Pity the Rational Christian who has been taught to explain away the
supernatural and force illogical and humanistic interpretations on Scripture.
So the “Good” sons of Seth slept with the “Evil” women of
Cain and that union produced people so evil that the fear motivated people
exaggerated and called them giants?
Really?
The only reason you would insist on that idea is that you refuse to accept the
supernatural.
Job 1: 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”
The Sons of God in Genesis 6 are the same Sons of God found in Job…
To believe that fallen angelic beings mated with human women and produced a race of giants and superheroes makes sense… but you have good human men forcing themselves on evil human women and producing the Nephilim who were so evil that the writers of Scripture exaggerated and called them giants.
First of all, if they were good, why did they take evil wives? Secondly, What would make the progeny of Seth and Cain more evil than either of the purebred races? That makes no sense at all and only a person well-schooled in rational theology could even imagine such a fairy tale…
Yet some would still prefer to believe a forced humanistic, but not so rational fairy tale than to accept the Bible as the Word of God…
David…
End Time Thinker 