The Nephil Consideration

- Days of Noah, Part 2 -
Genesis 6:3
Post 260

Remember that we are looking for comparisons to find “about when” the end will again come as in the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37).
For the sake of clarity in a complex topic I have elected to write out our target passage of discussion before beginning the several post exposition:

1. “And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2. that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”
Genesis 6:1-7.

Though Noah and his family (and thus humanity) survived this global destruction we have no problem accepting that this was the end of the world and we should be looking for a repeat in Type.
In the next few posts we will deeply contemplate all these verses in the effort to identify our own proximity to such a fate as this global genocide declared by God himself in verse 7, which Jesus described as the end of the world in Matthew 24. I will be jumping all around in this passage of scripture and it may at first be confusing, but should iron itself out as we continue. I begin with the significant change for humanity found in verse 3 that was promised even before the fatal events of verse 7 took place.
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Genesis 6:3:

"And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive (1777) with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years" Genesis 6:3.

This verse is one of those secret surprises because it’s easy to think “you get it” with a quick read but has a completely different meaning when seriously asking why it’s worded like it is.

”Yet”:
[Error correction 4/2/13] From Adam to the Flood we note that no ones life was declared limited to 120 years (Noah’s own dad was the shortest recorded at 777 years: Genesis 5:31) Yet doing more research I find that Genesis 23:1 declares long after the flood Sarah lived 127 years, and Genesis 25:7 tells us Abraham lived 175, etc., so the 120-year-limitation-on-human-lifespan theory doesn’t hold water. Therefore, it seems more likely that this 120 years is a clock starting at the point God said he would destroy man, which actually informed them when the flood would come. In otherwords; “because mankind is flesh he will not always be around for my Spirit to strive with because of his sin, nevertheless (yet) he still has 120 left.”

”Strive”:
We find that the Old English word “strive” used in the translation did not so easily mean what we think it means today: The Original Hebrew 1777 diyn did not mean simply “a fight with men” as we superficially interpret strive today, the interpretation is a bit more complex:

Strong’s first edition 1894; 45th printing 1989:
strive 1777 diyn deen; or (Gen. 6:3) duwn, doon; a primitive root [compare 113]; to rule; by implication to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law):-- contend, execute (judgment), judge, minister judgment, plead (the cause), at strife, strive.
113 adown…; from an unused root (meaning to rule); sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine):-- lord, master, owner….

This definition speaks of “rules of order”; “actively making sure things are done right”. Being engrossed in the 2012 Olympics last week, we should have no difficulty understanding the role of a referee, or more accurately “umpire”, as he strives with the participants.

Modern Electronic Strong’s:
strive 1777 diyn or (Gen. 6:3) duwn {doon}; a primitive roy (spelling error? root?) a straight course, i.e. sail direct:-- (come) with a straight course.

This definition keeps the same spirit of the original but provides another way to comprehend it; It speaks of maintaining a specific long range goal, i.e. correcting deviation by Creator established unchanging means of extra-terrestrial navigation, i.e. the stars. Man cannot mess up the stars by corruption of his way; the rules are outside of his manipulation in any way, yet he can confuse the rules of navigation by applying a whole other meaning such as Astrology which provides a “new” means of navigation in a completely different (wrong) way.
With the revised definition we see an even more clear perspective of the earlier, that this duwn is not; “to fight with in overpowering strength”, but rather “to guide with specified rules of order to succeed in reaching the proper goal of the rule Maker”, not as a team-leader or even a coach but as a third party umpire regulating (judging) the activity by applying the rules; i.e. strive with (alongside) to support adherence to the lawful goal AND/OR strive with (against) as a judge for violations. This is a concept of direct accountability for the express purpose of maintaining the rules of conduct. How it applies depends completely on our behavior at any given moment! The umpire doesn’t necessarily have any personal animosity to the offender he penalizes, or personal attachment to the conformer he approves, it’s simply the rules of the game as set forth, i.e. “If you foul, your score while fouling is not counted and there is also a penalty, and if you don’t foul, your scoring efforts are counted”, it’s just a part of the game (II Timothy 2:5), past performance has nothing to do with present performance; a foul is a foul when it is made (Ezekiel 3:17-21).

”With”:
By evaluating the interpretation we see the word “with”, though having the same meaning either way, can be interpreted as both striving against or striving alongside;
“I fight with you against our enemy” or,
“I fight with you because we are enemies”.
Curiously the umpire applies both variations at different times, directly to either party, depending on our immediate activity as it applies to the rules. When I conduct myself within the rules then the striving is with me as “in favor”, but when I conduct myself contrary to the rules then the striving is with me as “in opposition”, Same me, same umpire, same rules, different response according to my conduct. This is because an umpire is not partial to the participants on either side of the contest but to the rules alone (Acts 10:34-35).
This foundational concept is the very important power of America’s original Republic; “A government of laws, and not of men” (*1), rather than today’s American corrupted Democracy believing and spreading to the world this new warm and fuzzy destruction; A government of men, and not of laws.
I don’t wish to track off of the main topic of this post but this concept is critical to the whole thing. America now faces utter destruction by her progressive confusion in the same way the Church faces utter destruction by her progressive confusion (Revelation 1:20+chapters 2&3). Originally set up in Type as a husband and wife marriage between law and men with the law being irreproachably supreme though dispersed at the hand of the bride, today by abuse of our feminine role as the authorized distributor, we have elected to cast off the law as oppressive and now operate, not just emotionally free from the law, but wholly outside of the law. This is the spirit of the independent woman who is so appealing to sensual fallen (naphal) man (Genesis 4:6); the boundless woman free to do any dirty thing she wants without rebuke or punishment; “I have no master but myself”. Very different from the faithful wife who also feels she has no chains of oppression, operating freely without law but not outside of the law. She simply does not want to do those lawless things.
This lawless independence is both seen as “Grace” in the new Christianity outside the “oppressive” commands of Christ, and as World Democracy outside the law of Republican Government, which both are now erupting across the globe in wonderful liberation from oppression in Dirty Grace if you will. Don’t dwell on the legitimacy of such liberation at this point, we will discuss that later, the topic right now is the emotionally liberating abandonment of the law in general, for the sake of “freedom” from being governed at all. The result is human nephilism even before the demons get “intimately” involved (v.4). (Don’t worry, we will get to that in detail later).

Diminishing Cycles:
With the ascension of Jesus Christ and the subsequent receipt of the Comforter to strive with man once again (John 14:26) though in a different way, we see it is a kind of repeat of the time from Adam until Noah’s day. In the role and authority as umpire, the LORD strove with man through many hundreds of years of lifespan to ensure the rules of life were recognized, understood, and followed (Genesis 4:6-7= I Corinthians 3:12-13) but now we have significantly fewer years in which to win our Gold Medal race. Something in Noah’s day made that dramatic change necessary. The sons of God (angels) did not just foul against the game rules but parallel with humanity they abandoned the game rules and mutually carried that (v.2) to the degree of actually inter-breeding (v.4) and so in Noah’s day God declared a change in the way he would interact with mankind; no longer as umpire in either role discussed:

“…My spirit shall not always strive with man because besides being eternal spirit he is also still finite flesh: and although exacerbating this complexity of his finite humanity, he only has 120 left to figure it out (v.5)” Genesis 6:3 my paraphrase.

The Greek Septuagint words it; “…my spirit shall certainly not remain among these men forever because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years” Genesis 6:3 LXX

God was declaring a very significant concept that man’s period of God’s striving with him for the purpose of reaching the end goal was already limited because he was flesh, but now is limited even more perhaps because his flesh was somehow even more flesh than it was supposed to be. In otherwords; We hardly have enough time anymore to get it figured out in one lifespan! (I will explain this “more flesh” idea later).

With the more intimate understanding of the words “strive” (in both the old and the modern definitions) and the double-option use of the word “with”, the original intent of the verse seems to tell us that God's spirit will not continue to run a direct course with man because of a new fundamental corruption that happened in the days of Noah and will again in Type happen at the last end of the world (Daniel 8:19) discussed in Matthew 24. And now we begin to see a chartable reoccurring trend of ages with a progressively diminishing relationship with God as we remember that Adam and Eve were the first to experience a similar age ending change in how God strives with mankind (Genesis 3:22-24, and don’t miss the underlying reason in verse 22 and 11:5-8), and then we see the pattern again with Cain (Genesis 4:11-14) and yet again with Lamech (Genesis 4:23), each abusing by excuse God’s active forgiving aid to the previous generation for their diminished condition (Genesis 3:11-14=4:9,24), (discussed again in Post 291 Understand Yourself.

"Yes but, specifically why?"
Slightly jumping ahead of the study I submit it’s because man's flesh (his non-spiritual component as implied by; “also is flesh”) became corrupted by combining it with non-flesh components (i.e. “angelics” and other), which violated the game rules of the flesh so that God's Spirit needed to take a less direct course with him to arrive at the intended destination, if at all. Yes we are a designed combination of flesh and spirit in this complex game of life (I Corinthians 15:44), but the flesh component is required to be and remain flesh (I Corinthians 15:50) until it is translated (I Corinthians 15:51-54), and so to alter that earthly flesh with the introduction of unauthorized earthly spirit (like changing physical star navigation to spiritual astrology guidance) is to require a review of the very game rules themselves. This is the representational question in Type of 2012 Track and Field Olympian Oscar Pistorius (http://finchin.com/blade-runner-runner-olympics/) (*2).
After review, the game administrators (IAAF) rightly deemed his mechanical limbs as giving no advantage because it simply aided his return to human capability, but now begins a whole new necessary Division of complex regulation as this kind of thing progresses with technology blending the flesh with the mechanical to un-human abilities. The line between acceptable and unacceptable is not as simple as it at first seemed before we crossed that barrier (*3). I suggest this is why God stated it as he did; ”…my spirit shall not always strive with man…”, leaving the exact “when” symbolically up for review as things progressed toward the unacceptable “mechanical advantage” as it were.

Going Too Far:
Lawlessness in the flesh is easily regulated within the game of life by “punishment for a foul” (Romans 2:5-12). But when the progressively lawless (mischievously creative) players begin blending the flesh with the supernatural for “mechanical advantage” in the flesh, the less an umpire can do within the game to regulate the game properly until the players cast out (reject) the umpire and his rules entirely, thinking themselves finally “free” to play as they like without the Ogre breathing down their necks. “It’s our game, we’ll play it how we like!”
Think about it; other than blow the whistle and aggressively point out the offending party which then submits to the game rules as governed, what can an umpire do if the players on both teams simply choose to ignore his rulings and instead “join forces” as if to battle the umpire himself against the very rules of the game (Psalm 2:1-3, Revelation 16:14)? Now the umpire must use drastic means not directly related to the internal regulations of the game; maybe he turns off the gym lights (Matthew 24:29) or maybe he throws chairs onto the gym floor (Revelation 16:21), maybe he grabs them by the throat and gives them a good shaking as he shouts at them his disapproval (Revelation 16:18). Because he is the authority that actually invented the game, organized the game, as well as built and owns the gym in which the game is play (Genesis 1:1 [not to mention he made the players too!]), he has a near limitless number of things he can do to get their attention (Psalm 105:27-38, Psalm 2:4-5). Finishing the game becomes secondary to stopping the lawless chaos in his gym (II Thessalonians 2:3-4=8).
It seems by our verse that God is showing concern that mankind will not make it to the finish at all (Luke 18:7-8). But if they no longer want to play by the rules what’s the point of continuing the game?
And now we have an extremely shortened lifespan in which to figure that out by trial and error!

As the participants of the game of life, we cry “UNFAIR!” against the umpire, but don’t we also eject athletes from our own strangely allegoric games for willful cheating? And do we listen in empathy as the convicted steroid enhanced cheater complains he was treated unfairly, or do we rather spurn him in disdain as a pathetic looser and hold firm the judgment for the sake of game integrity? Why do we feel righteous in our judgments over our games but complain against God for doing the same thing for the same Type reasons over his own game? (Numbers 16:1-3,28-33 resulting in 16:41-42). The answer is that in the same self-centered perspective of the cheater, we have forgotten that we are no one special for which the rules should be uniquely altered (Deuteronomy 1:7, 16:19, II Chronicles 9:7, Proverbs 24:23, 28:21, Romans 2:10-11, Colossians 3:25, James 2:1,9, I Peter 1:17). There are many scriptures on this topic because God knew that through the misapplication of God-given democratic compassion, we would corrupt our understanding of this Republican Law principle while the consequences are fatal to the body as a cancer. Yes, we are the authorized administrators of the Law, but the Law is God’s. To usurp his authority is to become giants/nephil; i.e. those who by a tyrannical nature make others fall.
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In Context:
Our particular single study verse seemed to be oddly placed in the middle of a separate thought and by the wording and insertion it was difficult to make this verse apply where it is located, until we saw the cause and reason for the limited lifespan. Now the verse fits in place more easily as we read the context around it so that we can identify in what circumstances our verse applies, (just earnestly read through the passage first and pick up the inserted details after):

1. “And it came to pass, when men (120) began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2. that the sons of God saw the daughters of men (120) that they were fair (2896); and they took (3947) them wives (802) of all which they chose…
3. (Our study verse goes here)
4. …There were giants (5303) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men (120), and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men (1368) which were of old (5769), men (582) of renown (8034)” Genesis 6:1-4.

Our study verse comes in the middle of this so lets simplify the details:

1. Men began to multiply all over the earth (not just regionally).
2. The angels saw that these men’s daughters were fair/beautiful (all around desirable) and took whichever they desired to be their wives.
3. 3. God in essence made an evaluation of these new circumstances and said his spirit would not always umpire (judge) mankind’s activities as rightful ruler because man’s flesh would somehow “alter”, and so after another 120 years God would bring it to an end. In otherwords man would take a destructive independent course without God because his spirit became uniquely earthly minded as if he could alter the conditions to stay here forever (I am still getting to that idea).
4. God made this evaluation at the time there were nephil (nef-eel’) in the earth (giants=nephil: fellers; ones who make fall).
5. And there were nephil in the earth also after that, when these angels and their wives began to have children.
6. The offspring of this angelic/human interbreeding became Mighty Men which were those legendary men of old; i.e. Men of Renown, NOT specifically called nephil/giants as fellers, but gibbowr/giants as supermen.

It is easy in the confusion of the wording to miss that verse 4 shows these nephil (i.e. giants) were not at first of the angel/human breeding, nor necessarily even after that:

“There were giants (nephil) in the earth in those days; and also after that, when (the angel/human breeding produced powerfully famous offspring, i.e.) the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men (gibbowr) which were of old, men of renown” Genesis 6:4.

Verse 2 does not mention breeding or children yet that is obviously suggested and maybe confirmed by verse 3 implying that man by breeding with angels is now also something other than flesh but is in fact still flesh; “…for that he also is flesh…” if this is a correct interpretation.
This implied crossbreeding is easily concluded as the cause of the statement; “there were giants in those days”, but the seeming redundancy of the statement again after verse 3 makes no sense until you identify the difference between wives of verse 2 and mothers of verse 4 made specific by the inclusion of “and also after that” in verse 4 referring to verse 2 before the hybrid children were born.
It seems clear that The nephil were of men before the production of demon/human hybrids! yet this is never considered in the excitement of the really crazy hybrid concept that scripture unavoidably declares as matter-of-fact.

I will show that because of this pre-condition of human nephilism the subsequent breeding with angels were able to create a third type of man that by the wording seems to also be separate from the human nephil at least in some recognizable way; “there were giants (nephil) in the earth at that time, and also after that when this other thing began to happen” Genesis 6:3 my paraphrase (go back and read it if you want). So let’s break this down into groups:

1. We have normal fallen mankind; children of Adam progressively growing more wicked…. whose daughters for reasons not yet defined have become over time very desirable in every way; i.e. beautiful.
2. A. We also have these giants i.e. nephil (fellers) that are causatively undefined “more fallen” than normal mankind but we can conjecture were nephil by the same cause the women were beautiful (discussed later).
2. B. Angels (not declared nephil but by later study clearly understood to be so) took some of these unusually desirable women as wives. God then complained the game rules had been broken with significant consequences.
3. Then the breeding of these greatly desirable women with fallen angels result in offspring, which became the legendary men of old; i.e. men of renown (not specifically called nephil). We only infer (with strong indication) that the nephil gene in these unusually desirable women was a part of the works to help create the renown of these angelic superhuman offspring that may or may not have been unusually large as we understand “giant” today.

The short of it is that at the time of Noah’s flood there were:
1. regular man,
2. nephil man, and
3. demonic/human hybrid man.

Because this extremely unnatural concept of demonic breeding with human women to actually create hybrid offspring is so “aluminum-foil hat” insanely crazy to seriously consider plausible, I want to lay out as much scriptural research as practical to help you evaluate what God is actually saying here:
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Passage Research aids:

Men 120 adam; from 119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):-- x another, + hypocrite, + common sort, x low, man (mean[average], of low degree), person.
- Note this is a different word than used at the end of the verse and here specifically means normal human beings as specifically distinguishable from non-human. The descendants of Adam.

Sons of God; 1121, of, 430 ben ha ‘Elohiym;
- This combination of words results in a specific scriptural phrase defining the direct creations of God, defined more at length in the previous post but for accurate simplicity; is here speaking of angels generically. Note that it does not state or imply their condition of fallen or unfallen, simply that they are angels. This declaration of specific creation is intentionally to stand in contrast to normal humanity.

Fair 2896 towb; from 2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun…(good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well):-- beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, x fair (word), (be in) favor, fine, glad, good…graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, x most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ([-favored]).
- Please note there is not a single indication of anything negative in this definition of fair; these woman are smokin’ hot in every way: physically, personality, capability, intelligence and demeanor. You simply don’t get any closer to goddess while still in the flesh!

Took 3947 laqach; a primitive root; to take (in the widest variety of application):-- accept, bring, buy, carry, away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, x many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
- Note that these selected wives by the angels might have been willing or unwilling by this word but we find later that unwilling, at least at first, is required for the affect.

Wives 802 ishshah; feminine of 376 or 582; …a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582):-- [adultery]ess, each, every, female, x many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
376 iysh; …a man as an individual or a male person…
582 enowsh; from 605; properly a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence a man in general…
- Note as in “take” this word “wife” does not distinguish between slave, whore, or married; it is simply a woman as a cohabitant of a recognized relationship.

Giants 5303 nephiyl; or nephil; from 5307; properly, a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant:-- giant.
5307 naphal; a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative):-- be accepted, cast (down, self, [lots], out), cease, dire, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fugitive, have [inheritance], inferior, be judged [by mistake for 6419], lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (x hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present (-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, x surely, throw down.
- Note there is nothing here to require great stature but there is nothing here that disallows great stature either. Our English perception of “giant” from the Greek translation of nephil warps our understanding of the original word used; “one who makes others fall”; a feller. For some time I had fallen under the influence of other scholars who by jumping directly to the root of this word nephil, improperly assume these nephil are fallen ones (naphal) rather than ones who make others fall (nephil). Of course we do not argue that to make others fall, as a tyrant, the feller must himself be fallen at least to some degree, and so the jump is not specifically error but nonetheless misses the important intent of the verse. Nephil are bullies who make others fall by their powerful tyranny. This insignificance might not be an issue unless a need arises to distinguish a difference between the two, which I suggest we have just such a need, which I will eventually show.

Tyrant: …1. An absolute ruler; a sovereign unrestrained by law or constitution; a usurper of sovereignty. 2. Specifically: a. A monarch, or other ruler, who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally; a despot. b. A cruel master; an oppressor.
Tyranny: …1. The government of authority of a tyrant; the office, tenure, or system of administration, of an absolute ruler called a tyrant. 2. Hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; despotism. 3. A tyrannical act. 4. Severity; rigor.
- Please understand this word nephil translated as giant is used with the meaning such as; “He was a giant of a man able to command men where they didn’t want to go”. His actual stature is not discussed in such a comment nor is it in this passage (though an indirect connection is actually made much later in history which we will eventually get to).

Mighty 1368 gibbower…; intensive from the same as 1397; powerful; by implication warrior, tyrant:-- champion, chief, x excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.
1397 geber; from 1396; properly a valiant man or warrior; generally a person simply:-- everyone, man, x mighty.
- Note this is not a redundant word for nephil; these mighty men are not specifically defined as fallen or making others fall, yet tyrant is a very similar characteristic of nephil making the distinguishment of separation difficult. The focus here is on their ability more than their mission while nephil is the opposite. This is important when we attempt to discover the cause of the situation in question.

Old 5769 owlam…; from 5956; properly concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequently adverbial (especially with preposition prefix) always:-- always (-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
- Note that this word is regarding place in time and since Moses wrote Genesis long after the events we understand him to reference great legendary men long before his day but still remembered in legend. Those he wrote to at the time knew of these men of legends though today we have nearly forgotten them in time if it were not for the Greeks who personalized the stories to remind us of their existence. Did the Greeks actually have such legendary men themselves; the hybrid offspring of the gods? That is a mystery and why they are classed mythology. Today we speak of them much as Moses’ generation spoke of the earlier legends but Moses, as the scribe of God, confirmed they were real. It sort of shakes our perception of Greek mythology doesn’t it? Just remember the verification of the one does not automatically guarantee the validity of the other. I can’t validate the Greek gods but I can be confident about the Men of Renown, of Old.

Men 582 enowsh; from 605; properly a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence a man in general (singly or collectively):--…
- Note this is a generic word for mankind whether normal, giant or hybrid; the distinction is their mortality. This distinction is meaningless unless associated with non-mortals.

Renown 8034 shem; a primitive word [perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064]; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character:-- + base, [in-] fame [-ous], name (-d), renown, report.
- In otherwords; someone memorably special (unique), and the duration (length) of the memorial defines the greatness of their renown. Therefore these guys were really something!

Finally note that daughters in all cases of this verse means exactly what we think it means with nothing worthy of notation until specifically identified with whose daughters they were; of the Ademic (human) line as opposed to simply mortal. This distinction is only important if there is an alternative…. which the verse suggests there is.

Now let’s read that passage again and incorporate our deeper understanding:

“And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown” Genesis 6:1-4.

More to consider:
Now that we have a more earnest but still general overview of this passage, in the next post let’s see if we can glean a bit more meaning from it.
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*1 “A government of laws, and not of men.” - John Adams (1735-1826) American lawyer, politician and 2nd President of the United States in his 7th Novanglus letter (http://www.milestonedocuments.com/documents/view/john-adamss-letters-of-novanglus/), published in the Boston Gazette in 1774.

*2 What Olympian god is said to have made golden mechanical women?
Hephaestus, god of fire, forge, smiths and metalworking.
This is Geek Mythology and therefore untrustworthy as written by Satan himself, I include it here as a curious note of the Greek god referenced by his mechanical prowess to “enhance” mankind. We will be addressing this concept in detail in later Posts, for reasons that will become evident.

*3 Isn’t that the way it always is?
Before any decision the question is simple; “Should I or shouldn’t I?”. It’s AFTER the decision that the questions really get complex. Brushing the line is often seen as necessary and even a good thing, and no one is arguing with that, but brushing that line makes necessary a sharpened awareness of EXACTLY where that line is and a heightened caution not to cross it.
Does this sound too restricting or too unreasonable? We face such conditions daily. Stop behind the painted line and there is no issue regarding just how close you are to it, but let your car “end up” beyond the line and the risk of a fatal incident skyrockets. Meat grinders, lawn mowers, electricity etc. all are common no brainers walking that very line as a daily occurrence. Why get mad at God for drawing the really important "Do Not Cross" line that all these acceptable temporal Types are there to explain?

Idolatry 8655 teraphiym; plural perhaps from 7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol:-- idols (-atry), images, teraphim. 7495 rapha; a primitive root; properly to mend (by stitching), i.e. (figuratively) to cure:-- cure, (cause to) heal, physician, repair, x thoroughly, make whole.
Terraforming: (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the biosphere of Earth, in order to make it habitable by humans. - (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming).
see post 224 between The Lines (http://when-did-reason-die.blogspot.com/2011/11/between-lines.html).

Obviously doctors and repairs are not a problem, the problem is looking to them as to God. There is a line.
The question then is; “Where is it?”
That’s what we're trying to find out.
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