Then Jesus says something really interesting because He says as in the days of Noah they were marrying and giving in marriage. When you compare that with
Genesis 6 it's easy to see what is being alluded too. And of course we can't take away from the obvious meaning of Jesus' words either which is that people will be complacent. But, the deeper meaning is that they (the benai ha elohim) will be marrying and giving in marriage with the daughters of Adam. And so it is right now.
The obvious interpretation is in the words...
"but they took no notice until the flood came and swept them all away"....they were too consumed with their everyday lives to be bothered listening to some crazy old man building a gigantic box in the middle of a cleared field. The Nephilim took any woman they chose....married or not. They were violent bullies, with no concern for anyone or anything but satisfying their carnal pleasures.
God could not allow them to live because the excessive violence in the earth was caused by them.
The demon fathers of the Nephilim would have kept on producing them.....but there is no mention of the Nephilim themselves reproducing.
I don't need to show it scripturally. You're trying to prove a negative and I think the burden of proof is on you.
They can appear physically in the right circumstances. This happens now thanks to witchcraft. Witchcraft is really invitation for these spirits to work or manifest in the human realm. So that's how they get in.
If you mean "manifestations"...i.e. causing inanimate objects to move or to take control of a human being and make them do weirde things...that is hardly them materializing. Shadowy figures caught on film are not material beings. They actually transformed themselves from spirit form to flesh and bone in Noah's day, and in that state were human enough to have sex with women and produce children.
They also corrupted the animals genetically.
We have no idea to what extent the animals were corrupted by the devil's rule over the earth, but we can see that they can do harm at present, but I'm sure that God did not mean them to do harm in the original Paradise.
The more we look for evidence the more we see that they did come after the flood .This is one reason God wanted Joshua and the Israelites to exterminate the Canaanites and not even marry with them. After Joshua some of them that survived fled from Canaan.
You don't seem to understand.....the flood destroyed them utterly, and sent their fathers back to the spirit realm where God dealt with them. They could not come back after the flood. Their fathers could no longer materialize so it was impossible.
Tall races of mankind still exist, but none of them are related to the Nephilim.
"Hybrids are invariably sterile." I would like to see the proof that is always true. There must be exceptions especially when it comes to beings like angels who can shapeshift at will. They must have literally materialized in a human form like the two angels that God sent to Sodom and Gomorrah.
That is what materializing means.....they could apparently shapshift at will, or else they would have had to seek God's permission to take on human form in Noah's day. We don't really know if the the original satan manifested himself in serpentine form to deceive the woman. The Bible is not specific enough to make that call. All we know for sure is what the Bible tells us...the angels that appeared to Abraham were for all intents and purposes, humans, who communicated, ate and drank and conducted themselves as any human being would have.
The human being that would be anointed with the Spirit of God to deliver us all. So the Spirit descended upon Him like a dove to anoint Him. But that doesn't mean He's not God manifest in human form. But He came to fulfill all things that were written about Him in the scriptures. So yes He had to be anointed and even baptized. As He said "This becomes us to fulfill all righteousness" Not that Jesus had sin to be cleansed of.
But you have to remember with Jesus He was both flesh and Spirit. So His human nature was fulfilling all these things for us. The things we could not accomplish ourselves.
There is nothing in the scriptures to support that view. It simply says that God somehow transferred the life of his firstborn son to the womb of a human woman and produced his sinless human Messiah. Where on earth does it say he had to be God to be the Messiah? Where did Jesus ever claim to be God incarnate? Please give us just one statement from either God or his Christ that they shared equality in any way....? Jesus only ever claimed to be "the son of God"...never did he claim to BE God.
The Logos was the promised incarnation of God in the flesh. This was with God since the beginning. God said "let there be light" and that's the light of God manifest in the darkness of the world.
The "light" spoken about in Genesis was literal light reaching the earth's surface as God was preparing the planet to receive life....light is essential for all the life that he would place here. The earth in its primitive form was 'swaddled' in a thick cloud layer that was eventually removed so that light from the sun and the moon could be seen from earth's surface.
At Job 38:7-9...we see the angels rejoicing over creation and God speaking of the earth's initial darkness and what caused it.
"When the morning stars joyfully cried out together,
And all the sons of God began shouting in applause?
8 And who barricaded the sea behind doors
When it burst out from the womb,
9 When I clothed it with clouds
And wrapped it in thick gloom".
As God said let there be light and there was light and the evening and morning were the first day. It's all interconnected and if you can't connect the dots you won't get it.
I can connect the dots just fine....but when you produce dots out of nowhere, nothing connects. Making Jesus into God is a breach of the first Commandment. (Exodus 20:3)
That was after Jesus breathed on them and said "receive you the holy Spirit" Jesus' breath finally came on the day of Pentecost as a "rushing mighty wind". That's the duality of Christ. He was man and also God. So of course when He breathes as a man it may not have seemed like much; but when His breath at last comes it was powerful.
It does not prove that Jesus is God at all...it proves that the holy spirit is necessary for the accomplishment of God's will in all things. The apostles were able to perform miracles prior to Pentecost with the mention of Jesus' name.....the gifts of the spirit demonstrated after Pentecost did not make the disciples assembled on that day into gods, did it? They were still very much humans, but capable of doing extraordinary things.
The gift of holy spirit was given to Jesus at his baptism, not his birth. Prior to his taking up his role as Messiah, he was just plain old Jesus, the son of Joseph, the carpenter. His siblings did not believe in him until after his death and resurrection because they grew up with him as their older brother.
So, of course Jesus' human body was mortal. God needed this mortal body because He is immortal.
Read what you just said again....was Jesus just a body? Or was he the complete son of God in human form?
All spirit creatures are 'mortal' though not carnal....that means that they can die. To be "immortal" means you cannot die. (it literally means "deathless") For Jesus to have been the immortal God in human flesh, means that he could not die and be contained in the tomb for 3 days and nights as it was foretold. He was not resurrected until the third day. So where was Jesus for those three days? He did not exist. His Father raised him from the dead only after the three days were up, just as he said....just as Jonah was confined in the belly of the fish for three days, so the son of man would be confined to his tomb for three days.
It is painful to contemplate how misled people have been for centuries of being fed the devil's lies.
