WHO ARE THE SONS OF GOD IN GENESIS 6:4?
In the Old Testament, those who were called the sons of God were:
- "Adam (Luke 3:38)"
- "The Angels (Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7)"
- "Israel (Isaiah 43:6,7, Psalms 82:6, Matthew 9:2,22)"
Adam lived 930 years (Genesis 5:5), and we can see by the genealogies in Genesis 5 that the time of 120 years before the flood (Genesis 6:3) was approximately 1,000 years after the death of Adam.
And though Adam was verily created in the image of God, he sinned and fell, and afterward begat sons ""in his own likeness, after his image"" (Genesis 5:3) as a sinner (Romans 5:12); and as a result his children were not called in the scripture "sons of God".
Seth was given by God as a substitute for the seed of Abel, whom Cain slew, but, nowhere are Seth or his seed called sons of God…
The scripture gives us no reason to believe that Seth or his seed possessed any special power to produce or engender giants (Genesis 6:4).
Israel came from Abraham, who did not yet exist during the time indicated in Genesis Chapter 6.
Therefore we can see clearly that "the sons of God" in Genesis 6 werenotmen.
So, the only other possibility is that they were angels. Peter and Jude spoke of them in the New Testament (2 Peter 2:4,5, Jude 1:6,7), saying that they had fornicated after the same manner as Sodom and Gomorrah; and they are not running to and fro through the earth today, as are the devil and his angels (Job 1:7, 2:2, Ephesians 6:12), but are rather "…reserved under chains of darkness unto the judgment of the great day…"
They are in the abyss where the unclean spirits of today fear to go (Luke 8:31).
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