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The sons of God take wives; the offspring are named; and the text concedes it happened again — and also after that.
In plain words
Genesis says the sons of God took wives from among human women, names what came of it, and says there were giants in those days “and also after that.” Something from outside entered the line, told in the plainest words the language had, and the text records that the line was not kept closed.
The mechanism
OUTSIDE INPUT TO THE LINE — described in the plainest vocabulary the language had, and the containment is recorded as having failed
Scripture
Genesis 6:2, 4
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Maurice Greiffenhagen, oil on canvas · Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greiffenhagen_-_The_sons_of_God_saw_the_Daughters_of_Men_that_they_were_fair.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 6:2,4
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