There is no doubt that the Judaic interpretation at the time of Christ and at the time of the compilation of the New Testament held that the fallen Host had committed fornication with the human creation from Genesis 6:4 and also Jude 6 and that was the reason given for the requirement for women to wear long hair in 1Corinthians 11:10. The Bible is written in simple language for people who did not have our scientific knowledge. But the Bible does say that fornication was involved. The angels did appear as human beings and commit fornication. So it appears that they created something, which was in fact genetically inferior, and then interbred with women. It is probable that they were deliberately trying to forestall the plan of God. Thus, the Nephilim were there to stop the Adamic creation and to destroy, frustrate, or pre-empt the plan of God. There is no doubt that these Nephilim existed. You cannot deny that there were people on this planet who were entirely different and of larger stature than us. The fornication of the Host is found in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch and in the Genesis Apocryphon in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Pseudepigraphical writings. The destruction of all humanity in the flood was thus instituted because of the Nephilim or Rephaim. They were destroyed then or later as the Anakim http://www.ccg.org/english/s/p143.html
One of the texts uncovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Genesis Apocryphon, also contains references to the fallen angels interbreeding with human women.
In this text, a conversation between Noah's father, Lamech, and his wife Bathenosh is recounted. Lamech questions his wife because he thinks that the conception of Noah was due to either an angel or one of their offspring, a nephilim.
The Bible, along with the apocryphal texts of: The Book of Enoch, Josephus, the Book of Jubilees, et al and stories told by the Babylonians, Sumarians and the Mesoamerican cultures, et al,
conclusively exhibits a common understanding of the ancient times that these fallen host had committed fornication with women in the antediluvian period.
From Greek mythology, Hesiod's Theogony (c.800 BC) provides a genealogy of the birth of the deities. The first god was Uranus (Heaven), who mates with Gaea, the earth; from this union, the Titans and Cyclops are born.
The most famous of the Titans was Cronus. The Titans were imprisoned in a section of the underworld called Tartarus
Still another example in legend informs us that the powerful cult center of Tiahuanaco, in the southern highlands in Bolivia, was built by a race of giants after their homeland had been destroyed by a great flood.
The idea that a assembly of fallen angels mated with human women and had offspring (the nephilim) appears outlandish to us today, but it seems to have been widely accepted as fact in the ancient world.
Nonetheless, they will be back in the end-times to deceive mankind in order to control and corrupt the human race just as in the days of Noah.
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