Genesis 6:1–4
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We now come to one of those passages that make modern, respectable evangelicals blush. We are quite comfortable with a God who is a therapeutic life coach, and with a Jesus who is a really good example. But a passage like this one, with its talk of strange unions and monstrous offspring, feels like it belongs more to some pagan mythology than it does to the inspired Word of God. And so, the temptation is to domesticate it, to sand off the rough supernatural edges, and to turn it into a manageable morality tale about how godly boys shouldn't marry ungodly girls. But this is not only an act of interpretive cowardice; it is a profound misunderstanding of the spiritual war we are in. This passage is not some weird, embarrassing uncle in the biblical family. It is a dispatch from the front lines of the cosmic war that was declared in the Garden.