Welcome to this episode of the Bible Project Podcast. I'm John and this is Tim.

And we are in the middle of a series on the identity of God. And in the last episode,

we took a few questions to respond to. This episode, we're going to respond to more.

Yep. We've got a bunch. You've sent them in and we're going to get to as many as possible.

And Tim's going to respond as best as he can. You ready Tim? I think so. We'll see what happens.

Okay.

Should we sti then? Let's just dive right in.

All right. Felipe from Brazil. Let's hear from you.

Hi, Tim and John. My name is Felipe. I'm from Brazil. And my question concerns the rebellion of

the sons of God in Genesis 6. Suppose in this story talks about actual divine beings as opposed

to human kings. Do we know for sure the author's version of the story is the same as first

in ox. The divine beings had actual sex with human girls and had actual superhuman kids.

Thanks a lot.

All right. Felipe, you've asked a multi-part question.

Yeah, the story in Genesis 6, as it relates to the whole topic of the divine council and other

spiritual beings. And the famous Nephi-Lim and giants in the Bible hold a cow. What is going on here?

Yeah. Yeah. So it's one of the strangest stories in the Bible.

It is. It is. And the fact that it comes in the first few pages really throws early Bible readers

for a loop when they're doing the read through the Bible in the year thing.

So, you know, this all goes under the umbrella of for years and years I've just been kind of

under emphasizing and putting off these topics in the Bible because I thought they were weird and

crazy. And then I realized I can't do that anymore. I got to own up to this stuff and the rabbit hole

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