There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days

There Were Giants in the Earth in Those Days

If you have ever read Genesis, you will have noticed that chapter 6 describes the birth of the race of "giants" which involves the intermarriage of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men". In our enlightened times, giants and intermarriage with supernatural beings has been firmly relegated to the Land of the Fairies. Why? Because 1. modern man only believes what he sees and 2. he isn't about to allow Scripture to change that.

In short, the idea of giants and angels being anywhere but firmly fixed in someplace other than where we are would cause too many ripples in the surface of the modern man's bubble-world. It is time for that bubble to pop. Let us start by taking a long, hard look at Genesis:

“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth (v.4) … when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of god shouted for joy (v.7)?"

These can not be men, but are heavenly beings that pre-existed the creation of the earth. Men were created after the earth was created, and were made out of it's substance.

If the instances in Job refer to heavenly beings and not men, so why should we think that Genesis is any different?

There is an obvious contrast here [Genesis 6:1-4] between “daughters of men” and “sons of God”There is also a contrast between “men” being specifically identified as multiplying “upon the earth” whereas the “sons of God” are not described as earthly.

Since we know that giants do not result when the faithful marry infidels in human society today, then we are again led to the conclusion that scripture is saying that the “Sons of God” carried extraordinary genetic traits.

If we say that there really were no giants, we gut the historicity from numerous and significant parts of the Old and New Testaments.