Welcome to the debrief podcast with Matthew Stephen Brown.

On this show, Pastor Matt sits down with his friends to answer your questions about life, Jesus, and the Bible.

Let's get into the episode.

Hey, welcome back to the debrief podcast.

I'm Donna Martin, and I'm here with Pastor Matthew Stephen Brown.

How are you?

I am excited.

A little nervous about these questions, but I'm excited.

These are interesting, and I'm excited to hear your take on these.

And these are topics that sometimes Christians don't talk about.

These are things that maybe traditionally there have been some discussion,

but we don't really know what's growing up. I grew up in church for 20 years. I never heard about this

stuff. Yeah, exactly. All right. So we're going to jump right in. This is Chris from Redlands, California.

And he says, what is your understanding of the Nephilim? My understanding was that there were fallen angels

that had sex with humans, which produced a race of giants, for example, Goliath and the descendants of Rafa.

It's confusing when it says in Genesis 6-4, when sons of God went to the daughters of man and had children with them.

They were heroes of old, men of renown.

Heroes, question mark.

In my example above,

they are the enemies of David. Right. And so, yeah, so Chris, welcome to just endless debate,

speculation. And so there are two main, main thoughts, and these aren't the only ideas on the Nephilim, but there's two main thoughts. So one thought is the more practical

thought, and we'll start with that first. So Adam and Eve have two sons. So they have Cane and Abel,

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