BIBLE ANSWERS TO BIG QUESTIONS

GENESIS 6:1-7

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. WHO ARE THE "SONS OF GOD" IN GENESIS 6:1-4?

1. SOME GOOD CHRISTIANS THINK THEY ARE FALLEN ANGELS

Here are their main arguments:

-angels are called sons of God in Job 1:6, 38:7

-giants were produced by these demons & women [Gn. 6:4]

-angels are chained for this sin [2 Pt. 2:4, Jude 6]

2. SOME GOOD CHRISTIANS THINK THEY AREN'T FALLEN ANGELS

-good, not fallen, angels are the ones called sons of god [Job 1:6, 38:7]

-people of faith are called sons of God [Jn. 1:12, Gal. 4:4-7]

-Bible doesn't say the giants were offspring of this union but that they existed at the time. Substitute the word "mountains" and see how it still makes sense [Gn. 6:4]

-"mighty men" were the resulting offspring (fresh DNA strands}

-giants exist later without "angelic" help [I Chr. 20:4-8, I Sm. 17=Goliath]

-Jesus said angels don't marry (why would God give them reproductive abilities if He did not intend for them to reproduce) [Matthew 22:30, Psalm 139:14, 1 Cor. 14:33]

-Bible doesn't name the sin in Jude & 2 Peter, it could easily be something else

3. THE BIBLE CLEARLY TEACHES THE "SONS OF GOD" ARE SETHITES

"A text without a context is a pretext". What is the context of Genesis 6:1-4?

-Gn. 4:16-24....... gives Cain's line

-Gn. 4:25-5:32 ...gives Seth's line

-Gn. 6:1-7............gives the mixed line of Cain & Seth and the results of unbridled carnality

-note how men are blamed for this offense [v. 3, 5, 6, 7] and fallen angels aren't dealt with like 3:14-15

-because marriages were based on appearance instead of spirituality the godly dwindled down to one man and his family [v. 2, 8]

II. WHY DESTROY THE WHOLE WORLD? [Gn. 6:7]

1. Many were committing the unpardonable sin [v. 3]

2. Many were becoming famous for their wickedness [v. 4]

3. Majority were no longer even giving mental assent to God [v. 5, Matthew 24:22]

-Ten people could have spared Sodom but eight weren't enough to spare the wicked world.

III. DOES GOD REPENT?

1. In the strictest sense God doesn't change His mind [v. 6-7]

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent:

1 Samuel 15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

2. God responds Consistently to man according to what man does [James 4:6-8, 1 Samuel 15:11]

It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night

3. God's patience can eventually run out [6:3, Jeremiah 15:6]

Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.