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               2. What are the three major positions?


               (1) The cosmologically mixed races view (angels and humans).


               (2) The religiously mixed races view (godly Sethites and worldly Cainites).


               (3) The sociologically mixed races view (despotic male  aristocrats and
               beautiful female commoners.

               COMMENT: By all odds, the view that may perhaps claim the greatest an-
               tiquity is the cosmologically mixed races -- or the angel theory -- view. This
               view has been stretched to the limits of the bizarre by many commentators

               and authors, such as Stephen Quayle, in his book Genesis 6 Giants: Mas-
               ter Builders of Prehistoric and Ancient Civilizations. He jumps into the
               realm of the bizarre and  without  hesitation makes the following  pro-

               nouncements:

               "Obviously,  the  'daughters  of  men'  were  simply  human  women.  But  who
               were the 'sons of God'? And who -- or what -- were the giants and 'mighty
               men' who  were  the  offspring  of  the  sons  of  God  and  daughters  of
               men?...One explanation fits this scripture passage perfectly. Not surprising-
               ly,  it  was  also  accepted  as  truth  by  ancient  Jewish  scholars.  It  becomes
               apparent with careful study of the scriptures as well.


               "This view maintains that the 'sons of God' are angels. As creatures of God,
               these creatures (like mankind) bear a family relationship in that they were
               created by  God and, therefore, can be viewed in a sense as being His
               sons. Not only that, this interpretation explains why all the human beings
               involved are female while all the male figures are called the 'sons of God.'
               The reason is that angels are always referred to as being males....


               "The Nephilim that  were produced  by the angel/mankind marriage  were
               much different  from either  of their  parents. This, too,  went  against God's
               plan for the Earth in which each animal and human being was to reproduce
               'after its own kind.' This is perhaps the best demonstration that the parents
               of these creatures  were not simply  descendants of Cain and Seth. Had
               they been, they  would have produced human offspring, rather than the
               Nephilim....


               "A careful study of the first introduction of this word in Genesis also shows
               that the Nephilim have appeared more than one time in history. The verses
               don't say that the first account was the only time this occurred. Rather,
               'There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the


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