Week 1 Genesis
A couple of years ago a guy asked me what I made of the story about the Sons of God (SoG) and the Daughters of Men (DoM). I told him I didn’t know.
The main mystery and big question is: who are the SoG? I’m pretty sure the DoM are regular natural biological females. If the SoG are biological males why not just call them Sons of Men? Why use a confusing figure of speech? But what if SoG doesn’t refer to natural men?
And then the reference to Nephilim doesn’t help much. Two bibles I check give the impression that these men-of-renown are contemporaries of the SoG & the DoM – but not really connected to them otherwise. But a third bible makes it sound different. First it calls Nephilim giants (physical giants I think). And then it adds: for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with human women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes mentioned in legends of old. Implying the SoG were not (purely) biological males. Q: if they weren’t human…what exactly were they?
I didn’t have an answer for the guy then and I still don’t. But I do have a kind of bible reader’s rule-of-thumb for passages like this. I tell myself that if I can’t make good sense of content I shouldn’t be satisfied with nonsense. Also…don’t guess. Be willing to walk away. There’s always next time.
Note: quote from Genesis 6:4 (NLT)