BibleStudy.org posted an answer to the question Who Are the Nephilim?
The answer notes, “the word Nephilim…appears once in the book of Genesis and once in the book of Numbers.”
It’s noted, “The original Hebrew word” is defined by Strong’s Concordance “as someone who is a feller, meaning a person who is a tyrant or bully.”
Also, Brown-Driver-Briggs “simply translates the word as ‘giants.’” Well, that’s actually not a translation but is a rendering and it begs these questions:
What’s the usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word “giants” in English Bibles?
What’s Brown-Driver-Briggs’ usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word “giants”?
Do those usages agree?
Actually, we must also ask what’s BibleStudy.org’s usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word “giants”?
We at least get a styled answer to the latter question since we’re told, “The land of giants! Giants did indeed exist before and after Noah’s flood. These large people…”
Thus, BibleStudy.org’s usage is subjectively unusual height—and “large” is just as vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage as “giants” (and I’m inferring that the implication if that they were vertically large and not horizontally large—or, what it both?).
But we must ask what makes BibleStudy.org’s author think they were “large.” If it is because some modern version use “giants” then that would be a word-concept fallacy.
The next section deals with the “sons of God” thusly, “there is a giant (pardon the pun) problem with the belief that angels and women were able to produce a race of supersized humans called Nephilim” indeed, because there’s no reliable indication that Nephilim were “supersized” and they were only half-human.
For some odd reason, that statement was followed by, “Scripture says the sons of God took wives for themselves, meaning they were married, and together they produced such children (Genesis 6:2). It does not say these women were somehow raped by angels which subsequently led to them giving birth to giants.”
That’s at least two non sequiturs: who said anything about rape, what would rape have to do with the size of their offspring, etc.?
Additionally, “There is not even a hint in scripture that He ever spoke about or approved of angelic beings somehow marrying humans and then allowing them to create the Nephilim.” Indeed, such is why those who did so are considered sinners, having “left their first estate” as Jude put it.
But we’re told that “Jesus reveals the truth” in that “The possibility of angels and humans marrying and producing giant humans was also indirectly addressed by Jesus. He stated that marriage was a human institution that will not exist after people are resurrected and changed into spirit like the angels (Matthew 22:30). Angelic beings are incapable of marriage and cannot reproduce through procreation.”
That is a list of fallacies.
“Jesus reveals the truth” but was taken out of context. His words, His emphasis, His context, His teaching had nothing to do with the un-biblical assertion that Angles are “spirits.” Yet, more importantly, He never said anything about that “Angelic beings are incapable of marriage and cannot reproduce through procreation.” Rather, Matthew 22:30 records Him being very specific in that He stated “in the resurrection” which is physical, by the way “they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven”: thus, He was speaking of the Angels who are of God and are in heaven—again, such is why those who did so are considered sinners, having “left their first estate”: they were no longer “of God” and no longer “in heaven.”
We end up finding out that all of that was to push the later comer Sethite view which is based on myths and only causes more problems than it solves.
We’re told “The nephilim or giants were produced by righteous men who foolishly married worldly women (see Genesis 6:2).” Yes, see Gen 6:2 which, actually, states no such thing. And note that those righteous men were so utterly righteous that they married worldly women. Oh, and those marriages were the premise for the flood, for some reason, but have never since resulted in floods.
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