Genesis 6 mentions a group called the Nephilim and their identity has puzzled scholars for thousands of years. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the theories that they are angels or aliens or even something else, then ask what Genesis 6 is trying to say.
Links for this episode:
- Zecharia Sitchin’s book The 12th Planet
- Michael Heiser’s book The Anunnaki Gods According to Ancient Mesopotamian Sources
- Michael Heiser’s book Reversing Hermon
- Michael Heiser’s book The Unseen Realm
- Zecharia Sitchin
- Anunnaki
- Michael Heiser on Sitchin’s “Shumu” rocket claims
- Episode 43 on UFOs in Medieval Art
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None of the explanations presented seems particularly satisfactory.
Also, you don’t go into how the angelic theories could be compatible with the doctrine of Original Sin, if these Nephilim weren’t of the seed of Adam.