Enjoying your teaching (here in Loxley, AL). I have never heard this subject presented in this way but it makes so much sense regarding the setup of the powers of this world. A little off the subject but do you think that the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis 6:2 were those angels that God had originally placed over the provinces/areas …
Enjoying your teaching (here in Loxley, AL). I have never heard this subject presented in this way but it makes so much sense regarding the setup of the powers of this world. A little off the subject but do you think that the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis 6:2 were those angels that God had originally placed over the provinces/areas of the world? My husband and I were recently discussing this and were confused because of the scripture in Matthew 22:30 “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.” However, I just realized that this scripture merely says that as the angels we will not marry, it really doesn’t specify that angels have no gender unless there are other scripture to the contrary. Just wondering…. Thanks
Yay Loxley! I'm actually there today :) leaving tomorrow. In my hypothesis (and that's all that it is) the assignment of nations didn't occur until the tower of Babel. "Angels" as we like to call all of them are called "the sons of God" in many places in the OT. I previously called everything heavenly "the spirit world" but no, I'm not so sure. It's not an earthly place, and the people from that dimension are not made of the earth as we are, but as the genesis six story shows, they can manifest in physical form, even to the point of procreating with humans. Michael Heiser says that the reason for the instruction to Joshua to kill everyone in the areas known for giants was an attempt to wipe out the remaining offspring from the genesis six story.
Wild stuff, but the Bible is the Bible, and I would rather let it say what it says, and then rethink my understanding then to modify the translation and make it fit into our accepted ways of understanding.
Enjoying your teaching (here in Loxley, AL). I have never heard this subject presented in this way but it makes so much sense regarding the setup of the powers of this world. A little off the subject but do you think that the “sons of God” mentioned in Genesis 6:2 were those angels that God had originally placed over the provinces/areas of the world? My husband and I were recently discussing this and were confused because of the scripture in Matthew 22:30 “At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.” However, I just realized that this scripture merely says that as the angels we will not marry, it really doesn’t specify that angels have no gender unless there are other scripture to the contrary. Just wondering…. Thanks
Yay Loxley! I'm actually there today :) leaving tomorrow. In my hypothesis (and that's all that it is) the assignment of nations didn't occur until the tower of Babel. "Angels" as we like to call all of them are called "the sons of God" in many places in the OT. I previously called everything heavenly "the spirit world" but no, I'm not so sure. It's not an earthly place, and the people from that dimension are not made of the earth as we are, but as the genesis six story shows, they can manifest in physical form, even to the point of procreating with humans. Michael Heiser says that the reason for the instruction to Joshua to kill everyone in the areas known for giants was an attempt to wipe out the remaining offspring from the genesis six story.
Wild stuff, but the Bible is the Bible, and I would rather let it say what it says, and then rethink my understanding then to modify the translation and make it fit into our accepted ways of understanding.