![]() ![]() ![]() It was once claimed that the mating of the sons of god and the daughters of Adam that resulted in the Nephilim caused the flood, and this caused the Nephilim to have a negative reputation. ![]() The Nephilim are known as great warriors and biblical giants (see Ezekiel 32:27 and Numbers 13:33). Genesis 6:1–4 tells the readers that the Nephilim, which means “fallen ones” when translated into English, were the product of copulation between the divine beings (lit. Who are the Nephilim? From where do the “heroes of old, the men of renown” come? The Nephilim, the product of the sons of god mingling with the daughters of Adam, the great biblical giants, “the fallen ones,” the Rephaim, “the dead ones”-these descriptions are all applied to one group of characters found within the Hebrew Bible. Fallen Angel, 1847, Alexandre Cabanel, CC0, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. ![]()
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