Wow, what a beautiful day. Whoever made the call to hold a neeting outdoors was wise. Nothing like enjpying God's creation while engaging with God's Word!
The 120 years mentioned in Genesis 6:3 does not cap mankind’s potential lifespan. This is why even in modern times there are people who were for sure 122 when they died, and that should in no way trouble your faith. Because this 120 years in Genesis 6 was pre-flood God declaring that in 120 years He would flood the earth (Noah’s flood). 120 years later, the ark was sealed with Noah and his family and the animals inside.
Bit of a massive problem with saying “the sons of God came down”. That is not the language of scripture, because in fact they did not come down and mate with women and produce Nephelim. Genesis 6:4 speaks of the falling away, the worship of the flesh, the creature rather than the Creator, and the things of the flesh. In scripture, sons of God refers to those who hear God’s word, who share the desires of God (John 8:37-47). Genesis 6 speaks of mankind going from tolerable to intolerable, from respectful of God to disrespectful, from God-seeking to flesh seeking. Therefore Genesis 6:4 refers not to the angels falling from good to evil, but of man falling from good to evil. The point is that those who once sought God began only to seek the world, loading up all the women they could get for themselves, building their kingdoms, the bigger the better. And the giants were the product of men blessed of God falling into carnal-mindedness, and rather than be known for their godliness, they only began to be known for their giant children. They were also very likely possessed at a rate that could be much greater than our generation, with a smaller ratio of humans to demons. Brother, the pseudepigraphal imaginations of the pseudepigraphal book known as “Enoch” are contradictory to Christ’s being the only begotten Son of God. If it were angelic beings who mated with mankind, that means that those “sons of God” were begotten too, and that Christ was just one of many begotten sons of God. But Christ wasn’t just one of many, He is the ONLY begotten Son of God. The first and the last. The devil wants men to think he did it first. He did not. Not only did God not make biological bodies for angels/demons, who ARE without gender, but he also did not give them the power to create themselves biological bodies. He is the only One who ever has done that. No angel or demon has DNA with which to mate, much less the private parts necessary to deliver it. Moreover, having no biological bodies of their own whatsoever, the only way that they could be credited with impregnating a woman would be if they had the power to do what God did to Mary. Do we believe they can do that, or that they were ever EVER able to do that? Not a chance. That has only ever been done once, and never again, to produce the ONLY begotten Son of God, Emmanuel, God with us, Jesus, the Christ of God. Therefore, the only credit that could be given to demons for the pregnancies of these mothers of the Nephalim giants would be ordinary demonic possession, combined with antediluvian conditions, combined with the misused blessings of God conferred upon those who had been godly previously (men of God), and possibly something eugenic in the choice of women as men may have been hunting down wives for their family’s attributes. All of this is also without the serious consideration that mankind may very well have been even more technologically advanced then than now even. We frankly would have zero idea today whether their people had discovered genetics, learned how it all works, and worked to manipulate it. This isn’t needed though, but is intriguing. Remember that the verse states that this was not only a pre-flood thing, but also a post-flood thing, as David knew all too well. There weren’t demons lurking around raping or marrying women, though there were demoniacs aplenty. I hope you can see the problems with this extra-scriptural interpretation of Genesis 6:4, how it demotes Christ from His only-begotten-sonhood.
