R.C. Sproul

I mean, it

because that just really gets the angels worked up, and they're liable to come down here in the middle of a church service and rape you.

Can you think of anything more outrageous than that in terms of biblical interpretation?

But as I said, I've had at least 20 term papers arguing that thesis.

Where does it come from?

Well, it comes on the basis of implications drawn from this text and from another.

If we go back to the beginning of the Old Testament,

And we read of the creation of Adam and Eve, then of the story of the murder of Abel at the hands of Cain.

And then we read that Adam and Eve have another son, Seth.

And then we have this very strange passage in the opening chapters of Genesis where we read, and the sons of God intermarried with the daughters of men.

And it produced kind of a grotesque race of people.

Now, you look at that and you say, who are the sons of God?

Is this not an allusion to angels?

Isn't the author of Genesis telling us that angels actually began to intermarry with human women and produced this hybrid of half angel, half human as a result of their intermarriage?

Again, that's a possible inference drawn from the text.

However, we see that the phrase son of God in the Bible is not used merely for angels, but its primary use has to do with those who are of a particular stripe of obedience.

Sonship is defined in terms of obedience.

And a more logical, I think, inference from that passage is we see traced in the earlier chapters of Genesis two lines of descendants.

There are the descendants of Cain,

and the descendants of Seth.