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Originally Posted by Sean
Angels having sex with humans is NOT Bible...
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They were no longer angels
Gen 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
"Sons of God" is often used of angelic beings
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
Job 1:7 The LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
Job 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Dan 3:25 He answered and said, Behold! I see four men loose, walking in the middle of the fire, and there is no harm among them. And the form of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
Dan 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning fiery furnace. He answered and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come forth and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth from the middle of the fire.
Dan 3:27 And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king's advisers gathered and saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power (and the hair of their head was not scorched, nor were their slippers changed, nor had the smell of fire clung on them).
Dan 3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His Angel and has delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and have changed the king's words and have given their bodies that they might not serve nor worship any god except their own God
The narrative of Genesis suggests they are distinct from men
Gen 6:1 And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and when daughters were born to them,
Gen 6:2 the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were good. And they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.
We are told a certain set of angels fell
Jude informs us they left their previous dwelling
Jud 1:6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.
The word for "proper domain" is Arche literally meaning "beginning". These angels did not keep the way they were created from the beginning.
If you view Heaven as more than a location but a spiritual world, they did not merely leave heaven. We are told angels descend from heaven all the time in service of God. No these angels abandoned the spiritual domain...their spirit existence.
The author of Jude compares them to Sodom and Gomorra and their sexual immorality
Jud 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued
unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
2Pe 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
2Pe 2:5 and if he did not spare the ancient world, but did protect Noah, a herald of righteousness, along with seven others, when God brought a flood on an ungodly world,
These angels sinned! What was their sin? When did they sin?
Seems clear,
Gen 6
Notice the theme is Wickedness?
Gen 6:1 When mankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Gen 6:2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.
Gen 6:3 So the Lord said, "My spirit will not remain in mankind indefinitely since they are mortal. They will remain for one hundred and twenty more years."
Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of mankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
Gen 6:5 But the Lord saw that the wickedness of mankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.