I suppose we will begin at the end since I encountered that Ross answered the question via a Facebook post which read, “The explanation for the post-flood Nephilim is that sons of God, distinct from those who went to the daughters of humans before the flood, went to the daughters of humans born after the flood” along with a link to the website post.
On FB I noted that the statement, “is an anti-biblical tall-tale for which there’s zero reliable biblical indication and which implies God failed: He meant to be rid of them but couldn’t get the job done, the flood was much of a waste, they found a loophole to get past the flood that God missed, etc.”
It turns out that the new FB post (new as of when I wrote this) was to a 2014 Q&A which asked Hugh Ross, in part:
Genesis 6:4 reads, “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also afterward when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”
If the flood of Noah wiped out all the Nephilim, then where did the Nephilim who show up after the flood come from?
If the sons of God were fallen angels and if these misbehaving angels were locked up in the abyss, as Jude 6 declares, then how could they come back to visit the daughters of humans?
If the sons of God were human men, then from whose gene pool did they come?
Is it possible that some of the pre-flood Nephilim actually survived the flood catastrophe?
My replies would have been:
“How Did the Nephilim Reappear after the Flood?” is the wrong question, the primary question should have been: Did the Nephilim Reappear after the Flood? The biblical answer to which is a definitive, full, and final, “No”—period, full stop.
Thus, “where did the Nephilim who show up after the flood come from?” nowhere since they didn’t show up after the flood.
“If the sons of God were fallen angels and if these misbehaving angels were locked up in the abyss, as Jude 6 declares, then how could they come back to visit the daughters of humans?” they didn’t.
“If the sons of God were human men, then from whose gene pool did they come?” they weren’t so it’s a non-issue.
“Is it possible that some of the pre-flood Nephilim actually survived the flood catastrophe?” no, lest God failed and you demand on contradicting the Bible five times: Genesis 7:7, 23; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; and 2 Peter 2:5.
Now we get into Hugh Ross’ answers.
“Second Peter 2:5 states that all of the ungodly were wiped out in Noah’s flood. Genesis 7 in multiple verses confirms that indeed all of humanity and all soulish creatures associated with humanity, except for those on board the ark, were killed. Thus, the Nephilim did not survive the flood catastrophe.”
At least he did not have them surviving the flood.
He continues, “The explanation for the post-flood Nephilim is that sons of God, distinct from those who went to the daughters of humans before the flood, went to the daughters of humans born after the flood.”
That is a mere assertion for which there is zero data which is why he did not quote nor cite anything at all: it’s literally just his say so.
Granted, Jude and 2 Peter 2 affirm that the sinful Angels, all of them, were incarcerated. While Jude and 2 Peter 2 don’t specify when they were incarcerated, it makes sense that since the flood was when God was cleaning house, as it were, then that would have been the time. If not then, again, the flood was much of a waste since they just came right back and did it all again.
Note also that there was only a one-time sin of Angels and combining Jude and 2 Peter 2 results in that the sin was (strictly) pre-flood and sexual in nature, both of which fit the Genesis 6 affair (as I term it).
Thus, Hugh Ross has more, other, Angels sinning post-flood but there’s no in indication of any such thing no whatsoever.
Ross added, “If these sons of God were fallen angels, then these fallen angels are in addition to the ones who were locked up in the abyss as a result of their having sexual relations with human females before the flood.”
Well, that’s a big IF and, again, there’s zero indication of any such thing anywhere.
As for, “If these sons of God were fallen angels” well, the original, traditional, and majority view among the earliest Jewish and Christian commentators alike, for many, many centuries, is that they were—see my book On the Genesis 6 Affair’s Sons of God: Angels or Not?
A direct route is to note that as per Job 38:7, sons of God can refer to non-human beings.
Hugh Ross is so specific about his made-up scenario that he specifies, “Thus, the abyss would contain two sets of fallen angels: those who had violated human women before the flood and those who had violated human women after the flood.”
It’s technically Tartatus but abyss would be a fair enough generalization, I suppose.
He continues, “If the sons of God were human males, this interpretation would imply that God had commanded the sons of Shem and/or Japheth not to have sexual relations with the daughters of Ham and/or Canaan. The violation of this command evidently would have produced a second generation of Nephilim.”
This is another invention which he at least qualifies with, “If…were…would imply…evidently would” and with, “a second generation of,” post-flood, “Nephilim” implying God failed.
Actually, there many have been a second generation and many, many more but that would have all been strictly pre-flood.
Hugh Ross also notes, “the second appearance of the Nephilim seems much more limited than the first. Thanks to a small Hebrew nation, and especially to David and his mighty men, the few post-flood Nephilim were completely exterminated.”
In other words, mere humans managed to accomplish that which God couldn’t—at least, such is the implication.
Yet, there’s precisely zero reliable indication that anyone ever dealt with Nephilim post-flood—in any way, shape, or form.
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