Talk:Sons of God in Genesis 6

Helpful articles from multiple perspectives

Angels intermarrying with humans

• “The Sons of God” in Genesis 6 by Bryan Huie
• The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men (Genesis 6:1-8) by Bob Deffinbaugh
• Who were the sons of God and daughters of men in Genesis 6:1-4?
• Who Were the Sons of God in Genesis 6? by William Arnold
• "The Sons of GOD" in Genesis 6:2,4
• The Sons of God in Genesis 6
• Sons of God, Daughters of Men (by I.D.E. Thomas?)

Sethites intermarrying with Cainites

• The Meaning of “Sons of God” in Genesis 6:1–4 by Trevor Major
• Who Are the “Sons of God” in Genesis 6:2? by Bill Pratt

Rulers intermarrying with commoners

• Who Were the Sons of God in Genesis 6? by David Livingston

Neutral chart of relevant information

• Identity of the “Sons of God” Genesis 6:12 by John Walton

— Joey 17:32, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Haven’t parsed these articles yet: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], [13] — Joey 23:56, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

One line of reasoning I haven’t documented

One line of reasoning for the “angels intermarrying with human women” theory which I haven’t documented is that sexual relations between angels and humans is not entirely unplausible given that angels are seen eating and doing other human-like things and that angels were sought by the Sodomites for homosexual acts. Personally, I think this is baloney, which is why I didn't document it the first time I saw it, but it seems to keep coming up in the literature over and over again, so it has a wide base of proponents and should probably be documented here whether I like it or not. — Joey 05:47, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Definition of “sons”

I found this extremely interesting from the Trevor Major article above. Maybe has implications for my God the Father topic even more than for this topic:

The word “son” (ben) has a far wider meaning in Hebrew than it does in contemporary English use, and occurs some 4,850 times in the Hebrew Bible. The most common meaning is of a son, as in the male offspring of his parents (e.g., Genesis 5:4), but in general terms the word refers to a variety of rela-tionships in which a person or object belongs to, or is influenced by, someone or something. A son could be a citizen of a city (Psalm 147:13), a student (Proverbs 1:10), or an arrow (Job 41:28). The expression “sons of God” refers to some entity somehow connected or related to God, but whether by birth, creation, ownership, or characteristic, it is impossible to say from the phrase alone. The only way to examine the issue further is to study the use of the phrase in Scripture and other literature sources.

— Joey 22:36, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Reformed Forum episode

There’s a Reformed Forum episode on this where they discuss Meredith Kline’s view that the sons of God are tyrannical kings from the line of Cain and the daughters of men are the daughters of Seth: Reformed Forum Podcasts: The Sons of God and Daughters of Man in Genesis 6.