I’m sure nothing surprises the people who regularly post here. But what really shocks me now is that as a child I genuinely believed some of the most preposterous, stupid and moronic things ever committed to papyrus.
Take the Nephilim. Who were they? Well – they were mutants. Yes mutants – mentioned in Genesis 6. Nephilim translated means “feller”, someone who knocks someone else down. They were reallly big crazy fellers weren't they?
How did they arrive? Well. “the sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose” (Gen 6:2). Just a moment, “sons”, what do you mean – do spirit creatures have gender? I thought God invented gender on Earth so that the Earth could be filled – surely spirit creatures don’t reproduce? And why is Jesus always referred to as God’s only son? Why were these angels sexually attracted to humans? How did they perceive that these women were “good looking”? This all seems very human to me! Surely they were perfect beings? Surely the feelings that they had within themselves were given to them by God? If this is so, God is rather unkind giving spirit beings human-style sexuality!
If these spirit creatures were perfect, they would be able to metamorphosise themselves into perfect men with perfect genes. Their offspring would not be crazy mutants. I would have thought that if they had this brilliant skill to turn themselves into humans they would have made sure that they didn’t produce defective sperm.
Well, God was mad about it naturally and he decided to kill them all in the flood. He killed everyone except Noah and his family and two of every animal on earth in a massive shoebox covered in tar.
Now we can all be very grateful to God that these Nephilim don’t exist anymore, all we have are their skeletons in museums. We do have them in Museums don’t we?
Oh, dear…
