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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you...” Jeremiah 1:5













Woah woah woah easy Jack. You’re trading in a metaphysical impossibility, here. Nephilim aren’t demons. Not even close. Demons and angels are pure spirits (Lateran IV; Thomas, ST I, q. 50). They have no caporal bodies by nature. Angels may temporarily assume bodies for a specific mission, but they don’t possess generative power, sexual power to generate new life. The most congruent interpretation aligning with the Patrisitic/Church Fathers is that the “Sons of God” = descendants of Seth, the righteous line and “Daughters of men” = descendants of Cain, the impious line. So the Nephilim would either be > Violent tyrants > Men of renown > Or powerful but morally corrupt rulers. This interpretation was favored by St. Augustine (City of God, XV.23) many Latin Fathers and loads of later Thomistic scholars. The theological strengths of this interpretation does three things. 1. It preserves angelic immateriality. 2. It fits the broader Genesis theme of cautioning the sexual intermingling of the righteous with the wicked. 3. Explains profound moral corruption before the Flood. The Church has not dogmatically defined who precisely the Nephilim were and the identity of the “sons of God.” But we know the Church definitively teaches: • Angels are pure spirits. • Humans are a unity of body and soul. • No third rational species exists apart from these two creatures. So the Nephilim were fully human. And nasty hombres. The point of this passage is to describe moral degeneration through intermingling with wickedness, not create a new category of creature or alien. Angel-human hybrids are metaphysically impossible and the Sethite interpretation is the most theologically secure. Let’s remember not to mix with wickedness. Or theological soothsayery and extrabiblical sci-fi fantasy. @NAButterflies


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