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SUBJECT: Angels
QUESTION: Genesis 6:1-4 – Did angels have sex with human women?
ANSWER:
In answering your question,
let me ask some…
1) Wasn't there a worldwide
flood recorded in the Bible in which all but Noah, his wife,
three sons and their wives survived?
Even if Satan and Eve had
kids, wouldn't they have drowned in the flood and been lost
forever?
Nothing in the Bible
indicates any on the ark were Jews or offspring of Satan or
cursed.
2) Why would God, the most
powerful being in the Universe, allow Satan to have sex with
His people? What would be the purpose? Why would He allow
spirit beings to have sex anyway? Do spirit beings have sex
organs? What about the massive differences in DNA, assuming
that if humans had DNA, angels must have something similar.
On earth, one cannot mix human DNA with, say animal DNA.
Has a woman ever given live birth of a child fathered by an
ape, a dog or horse or any other animal? Why doesn't God
allow this?
3) If Satan and/or demons
were having sex then, there must have been some drive or
pleasure and/or purpose in their doing it. Why isn't Satan,
demons and angels having sex today? If they are, where is
it happening?
4) Even if Satan and Eve did
have kids and the Jews are all the offspring, what does this
have to do with:
a) me and my Salvation?
b) you and your Salvation?
c) the Plan of God?
d) the future of the Jews?
Clearly the Jews are part of the 144,000 and will be with
Christ in the Kingdom.
5) What about Genesis 4:1?
Genesis 4:1
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare
Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.
Seems clear here that Cain's father was Adam.
Fact is, spirit beings cannot have sexual relations. God
would NEVER allow it.
Genesis
6:1-4
1 And it came to pass, when
men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw
the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them
wives of all which they chose.
3 And the LORD said, My
spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 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.
We are not talking about
angels having sexual intercourse with human females here.
This is talking about human males and females.
WHAT
DOES LOGIC TELL YOU?
1)
If they were doing it then (having sex with women),
why aren’t they doing it all through history and even today?
2)
WHY WOULD GOD ALLOW IT? His purpose for mankind is
to bring them into the family of God. Why would He allow
angels this opportunity to gain entrance into the Family of
God, ESPECIALLY if one believes these to be the fallen
angels doing this?
3)
Even if it were true (which it is not) what
difference would it make? The verses that people use to
purport this idea ARE BEFORE THE FLOOD, which means that
EVEN if it were true (which it is not), THEY ALL DIED IN THE
FLOOD, unless one wishes to believe that Noah, his wife,
and/or son and/or their wives were direct descendents of
angels. NO ONE CAN PROVE SUCH A THING. This never
happened. God would never allow it. It serves no purpose.
It goes contrary to the Plan of God for mankind. Satan and
all angels (fallen or not) must ask permission before they
do ANYTHING (See opening verses of Job) and God would not
allow this.
The Bible reveals that angels
are created spirits (Hebrews 1:14). They are not mortal
flesh like humans.
Hebrews
1:13-14
13 But to which of the angels
said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make
thine enemies thy footstool?
14 Are they not all
ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who
shall be heirs of salvation?
As created spirits, angels do
not reproduce sexually or by any other means. Jesus Christ
said so. Notice Luke 20:34-36; Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25.
Luke
20:34-36
34 And Jesus answering said
unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given
in marriage:
35 But they which shall be
accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection
from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:
36 Neither can they die any
more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the
children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Matthew
22:30
For in the resurrection they
neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the
angels of God in heaven.
Mark 12:25
For when they shall rise from
the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but
are as the angels which are in heaven.
Who then were these "sons of
God"? They were male human beings. Adam was a son of God by
creation (Luke 3:38).
Luke 3:38
Which was the son of Enos,
which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which
was the son of God.
In like manner, all of Adam's
male descendants are by God's act of creation physical sons
of God. The context of Genesis, chapter 6 concerns physical
human beings-not angels. Notice: "And the Lord said, My
spirit shall not always strive with man ..." and "I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth"
(verses 3 and 7). It was
sinful man that God had determined to destroy-not angels (their
time of final judgement is yet to come). Angels
are spirit and cannot be destroyed by water. With the
out-pouring of the deluge "all flesh died... and every
man..." (Genesis 7:21-23).
Genesis
7:21-23
21 And all flesh died that
moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of
beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth, and every man:
22 All in whose nostrils was
the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
23 And every living substance
was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both
man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of
the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah
only remained alive, and they that were with him in the
ark.
Notice the commentary:
Genesis 6:1-8
THE GROWTH OF SIN--
<Genesis 6:1-8>
Having traced the line of
descent from Adam through Sheth, the seed of God, to Noah,
the author proceeds to describe the general spread and
growth of moral evil in the race of man, and the
determination of the Lord to wipe it away from the face of
the earth. Verse 1-4. There are two stages of evil set
forth in <Genesis 6:1-4>-- the one contained in the present
four verses, and the other in the following. The former
refers to the apostasy of the descendants of Sheth, and the
cause and consequences of it.
When man began to multiply, the separate families of Cain
and Sheth would come into contact. The daughters of the
stirring Cainites, distinguished by the graces of nature,
the embellishments of art, and the charms of music and song,
even though destitute of the loftier qualities of
likemindedness with God, would attract attention and prompt
to unholy alliances. The phrase "sons of God," means an
order of intelligent beings that "retain the purity of moral
character" originally communicated, or subsequently
restored, by their Creator. They are called the sons of
God, because they have his spirit or disposition. The sons
of God mentioned in <Job 38:7>, are an order of rational
beings existing before the creation of man, and joining in
the symphony of the universe, when the earth and all things
were called into being. Then all were holy, for all are
styled the sons of God. Such, however, are not meant in the
present passage. For they were not created as a race, have
no distinction of sex, and therefore no sexual desire; they
"neither marry nor are given in marriage" <Matthew 22:30>.
It is contrary to the law of nature for different species
even on earth to cohabit in a carnal way; much more for
those in the body, and those who have not a body of flesh.
Moreover, we are here in the region of humanity, and not in
the sphere of superhuman spirits; and the historian has not
given the slightest intimation of the existence of spiritual
beings different from man.
The sons of God, therefore, are those who are on the Lord's
side, who approach him with duly significant offerings, who
call upon him by his proper name, and who walk with God in
their daily conversation. The figurative use of the word
"son" to denote a variety of relations incidental, and moral
as well as natural, was not unfamiliar to the early speaker.
Thus, Noah is called "the son of five hundred years"
<Genesis 5:32>. Abraham calls Eliezer [ben] (heb 1121) [beeytiy]
(heb 1004), "son of my house" <Genesis 15:3>. The dying
Rachel names her son Ben-oni, "son of my sorrow," while his
father called him Benjamin, "son of thy right hand" <Genesis
35:18>.
An obvious parallel to the moral application is presented in
the phrases "the seed of the woman" and "the seed of the
serpent." The word "generations" [towlªdot (heb 8435),
<Genesis 5:1>) exhibits a similar freedom and elasticity of
meaning, being applied to the whole doings of a rational
being, and even to the physical changes of the material
world <Genesis 2:4>]. The occasion for the present
designation is furnished in the remark of Eve on the birth
of Sheth. God hath given me another seed instead of Habel.
Her son Sheth she therefore regarded as the son of God.
Accordingly, about the birth of his son Enosh, was begun the
custom calling upon the name of the Lord, no doubt in the
family circle of Adam, with whom Sheth continued to dwell.
And Enok, the seventh from Adam in the same line, exhibited
the first striking example of a true believer walking with
God in all the intercourse of life. These descendants of
Sheth, among whom were also Lamek who spoke of the Lord, and
Noah who walked with God, are therefore by a natural
transition called the sons of God, the godlike in a moral
sense, being born of the Spirit, and walking not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit <Psalm 82:6; Hosea 2:1>.
Some take "the daughters of
man" to be the daughters of the Cainites only. But it is
sufficient to understand by this phrase, the daughters of
man in general, without any distinction of a moral or
spiritual kind, and therefore including both Cainite and
Shethite females. "And they took them wives of all whom they
chose." The evil here described is that of promiscuous
intermarriage, without regard to spiritual character. The
godly took them wives of all; that is, of the ungodly as
well as the godly families, without any discrimination.
"Whom they chose," not for the godliness of their lives, but
for the goodliness of their looks. Ungodly mothers will not
train up children in the way they should go; and husbands
who have taken the wrong step of marrying ungodly wives
cannot prove to be very exemplary or authoritative fathers.
Up to this time they may have been consistent as the sons of
God in their outward conduct. But a laxity of choice proves
a corresponding laxity of principle. The first inlet of sin
prepares the way for the flood-gates of iniquity. It is easy
to see that now the degeneracy of the whole race will go on
at a rapid pace. ~from
Barnes' Notes
As you can see, there
is nothing in any of this that would support the idea of
angels having sexual relations with humans.
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