IDENTIFYING THE SONS OF GOD.........................................................
LIGHT FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT
Two New Testament passages shed further light on Genesis 6. They are Jude 6-7 and 2 Peter 2:4. These verses indicate that at some point in time a number of angels fell from their pristine state and proceeded to commit a ual sin that was both unusual and repugnant. Jude 6-7 states:
"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh..."
These angels not only failed to keep their original dominion and authority, but they "left their own habitation." Habitation is a significant word: it means "dwelling place" or "heaven." And the addition of the Greek word "idion" ("their own") means that they left their own private, personal, unique possession. (4) Heaven was the private, personal residence of the angels. It was not made for man but for the angels. This is why the ultimate destination of the saints will not be Heaven but the new and perfect Earth which God will create (Revelation 21:1-3). Heaven is reserved for the angels, but as for the beings referred to in Jude 6-7, they abandoned it.
Not only did these angels leave Heaven, they left it once-for- all. The Greek verb "apoleipo" is in the aorist tense, thus indicating a once-for-all act. By taking the action they did, these angels made a final and irretrievable decision. They crossed the Rubicon. Their action, says Kenneth Wuest, "was apostasy with a vengeance." (5)
As to the specific sin of these angels, we are given the facts in Jude 7. As in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah it was the sin of "fornication" and it means "going after strange flesh." "Strange" flesh means flesh of a different kind (Greek "heteros"). To commit this particularly repugnant sin, the angels had to abandon their own domain and invade a realm that was divinely to them. Says Wuest:
"These angels transgressed the limits of their own natures to invade a realm of created beings of a different nature." (6)
Alford confirms:
"It was a departure from the appointed course of nature and seeking after that which is unnatural, to other flesh than that appointed by God for the fulfillment of natural desire."
The mingling of these two orders of being, was contrary to what God had intended, and summarily led to God's greatest act of judgment ever enacted upon the human race.
Yo estoy totalmente de acuerdo con esta postura, siempre lo he estado, pensé que era sólo yo, pero parece que varios pensamos igual.
Es una pena que nadie haya podido responder las prenguntas que hice en la página número 1, pero sigamos con el tema es muy interesante.
En cuanto a la llamada de atención de nube, sólo puedo decir que esta es su forma de participar, a ninguna persona a y pensante le debe molestar el intercambio de ideas o la facilitación de su continuidad. Los que a mí si me molestan son los autodenominados rectores y correctores de la libre expresión de los demás. Con esta gente, no converso nada. Harta estoy de ver sus falcónidas ideas, rapaces destructoras de ideas bajo una moralidad cuestionable. Lobos con pieles de ovejas. Siempre los identifico muy rápidamente. Tengo talento natural para eso. Greivin es una persona de lo más sensata, después de algún tiempo no me queda la menor duda de que razona y es un verdadero cristiano.
Dios los bendiga y gracias al último Juan por traer esta aportación
