Genesis 6:1-4

This entry in Genesis is one of the strangest and most remarkable in the Old Testament. That giant sons of God were supposed to have walked the earth and took wives among the daughters of Adam and Eve--it makes me wonder if this is all myth, or if there were either long-lived giants mythologically recalled, that lived and roamed the earth in some prehistoric Golden Age, or if they were aliens from another world that visited earth to mingle with and give humanity as genome bump forward. Who knows? Were these sons of heaven angels, superhumans and immortals that God separated from humans after this intermingling to keep humans mortal and earth-bound? Again, who knows? Here is the passage from The New American Bible: "Origin of the Nephilim. When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of heaven saw how beautiful the daughters of men were, and they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: 'My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years. At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of heaven had intercourse with the daughters of earth. They were heroes of old, the men of renown." Some internet articles on the Nephilim identify these sons of heaven as evil, as breakaway angels that sullied themselves by having sex with human women. Apparently, angels are celibate, although I think that humans are parents, and the Divine Couple and their followers would procreate and have offspring in the spiritual realm. Clearly, Yahweh was worried that his divine spirit was intermingled, through these fallen or earth-bound sons of God and their human wives, with human blood, so he pulled back his spirit so that it would not remain in humans. Perhaps he removed the divine souls from the sons of God on earth or ordered them to go home. All of this seems to play into the mythological stories about how humans are half-angel or half-god, and half-animal, or half-beast, and that is our current biological and existential status as human beings. It could be that God pulled back his spirit from the humans on earth because, in their state of natural depravity and social wickedness, such divine spirit in their veins would make them a dangerous center of satanic power, and that God did not want to see humans reduced to being. His withdrawal of De's spirit, from this vantage point, is an act of mercy and love. Let me quote this passage from the Holy Bible (KJV): "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 one 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."