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Has anyone heard of the Anakites? you know those giants in the Bible who were always after the Israelites. My Bible teacher I were disagreeing if they where the children of demons and human women based off of this verse Genesis 6:2 http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=GEN+6:2&language=english&version=NIV&showfn=on&showxref=on

and i was wondering what your thoughts are? Can angels take human form?
your thoughts?

ok maybe that didn't make much sense I was wondering if you think the anikim are the sons of demons? just look up the anakites in your concordance and you might have read the frank perreti book the tombs of anak(thats mostly where i'm getting my question from)

This probably borders on theological discussion and should be taken to Theology web.

Thanks,
OldPhilosopher

Hmm...do you mean, were the Anakites sons of demons who married human women?

I don't know if that's possible.

demons are spiritua

The nephillim (half-angels) based on the verse in Genesis is very controversial... Besides that, it is sure to open up OTHER cans of worms (like literal versus metaphorical... ugh) SO, yeah, I guess it would be best to not discuss this here... Though I love this topic, myself.

This is a Scripture that needs to be viewed very closely with it's context. First one must remember that angels do not marry. Jesus said in Matthew 22:30:
"At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven."

Therefore, if the words of Jesus are true (and they are) Genesis 6:2, "the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose." could not be talking about angels.

So the question remains, who are the sons of God and the daughters of men. Note the context of Chapter 5 which speaks at length about the descendants of Adam. We are then taken to chapter 6 which discusses the wickedness of mankind. The wickedness is the result of intermarriage between two groups. One of these groups has just been talked about in Chapter 5. These are the descendants of Seth (sons of God). One group is not discussed for good reason, the wickedness of the family line. These would be the decendants of Cain (daughters of men). With the intermarriage of these two family lines, wickedness was the result, a wickedness so great that God could no longer tolerate it and thus the resulting flood of Genesis 6.

The Nephilim were in no way a result of this intermarriage. The writer of Genesis uses their presence as a historical marker for the reader. Goliath of the account of David and Goliath is believed to be a descendant of this race of people.

Angels, God's messangers can indeed take on human form. Abraham entertained God's messangers at his tent where they stayed and ate with him. The writer of Hebrews tells us that angels can take on such a form that we would not be able to distinguish them from humans:

"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.:
Hebrews 13:2