A Spiritual Catastrophe?

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]The second interpretation emerged strongly among Jewish rabbis and early Christian theologians who were uncomfortable with the supernatural reading.

[00:00:08]For them, the sons of God were simply the godly male descendants of Seth.

[00:00:13]The daughters of men were women from the line of Cain, the line of rebellion.

[00:00:18]What Genesis 6 is describing, on this view, is not a supernatural [music] event. It is a spiritual catastrophe.

[00:00:25]The righteous line of Seth intermarried with the corrupt line of Cain.

[00:00:30]Sacred boundaries within human society were crossed, and the moral decay that followed led directly to the flood.

[00:00:38]This reading has the advantage of keeping everything within the human world.

[00:00:42]It places the blame on human choices and human disobedience.

[00:00:47]The problem is that it requires reading sons of God as something the phrase almost never means in the Hebrew [music] Old Testament.