The number "3.7 billion years ago" is your own number, not found anywhere in the Bible.
Dear Riverwolf, The date comes from the
AGREEMENT of Scripture, Science and History. God tells us that
EVERY living creature was created and brought forth from the water on the
5th Day. Science has dated the appearance of the
FIRST living creatures on our Planet as appearing, in the water, some 3.7 Billion years ago. This fits God's revelation that each of His Days or Ages is some 4.5 Billion years in man's time. This is because today is the 6th Day and life came forth from the water
YESTERDAY, in God's time. Scripture and Science
AGREE.
Which we only know nowadays. The writers of Genesis didn't know that.
The men who actually penned what the Holy Spirit "moved" them to write down, from inside them, had
NO idea what they were writing. The Holy Spirit is the Author of God's Holy Word.
2Pe 1:21 It's also the way the Holy Spirit works,
TODAY.
It's fairly linguistically sound, however. While the etymology is a bit unclear, the general linguistic consensus is that it basically means "fallen ones."
Unless you have a linguistic understanding above that of those who have been studying it their whole lives.
I don't go much on linguistics because that would mean that the Jews understood Scripture best, and yet they called for the crucifixion of their own God and have yet to learn that Today remains the
6th Day, until the Messiah returns and changes all animals into Vegetarians as
Gen 1:30 clearly shows.
Not the ones in Heaven, anyway. I thought the "fallen" ones weren't in Heaven, anymore.
They're not, that's what the Holy Spirit tells us in Jude. They've been in chains in Hell and will stay there until the Judgment.
Perhaps Jude never read Genesis.
Jude wrote what the Holy Spirit told him to write from inside him. Remember that the Holy Spirit is also the Spirit of Truth, God's Truth.
I've never much liked Paul's theology.
I note you're using the New Testament to interpret the Tanakh. Frankly, I don't buy such interpretations, in any case.
Then, you have just admitted that you think God is just lying. Right? The
SAME God (Holy Spirit) Authored the Old and New Testament.
IF you could understand the Bible, that would be very clear to you.
We didn't "diverge from chimps." We share a common ancestor with chimps. That ancestor was NOT a chimp; chimps didn't exist back then.
The sons of God (
prehistoric people) diverged from Chimps (
Chimp evolution went one way and prehistoric people went the other) some 6 Million years ago according to Science. Lucy, for example, is some 4 Million years old.....
BUT... prehistoric people were
NOT Humans, (
descendants of Adam) Were they?
Anyway, you still have not said what, exactly, you think human intelligence, when distinct from animal intelligence, even is.
I try to always post
Gen 3:22 to show what human intelligence is. It MUST be inherited from another Human. Here it is:
Gen 3:22¶And the LORD God (YHWH/JESUS) said, Behold, the man (Adam) is become as one of Us, (Trinity) to know good and evil:
Jesus is speaking to the Father and the Holy Spirit and saying that Adam has an intelligence like God's intelligence, which allows one to know the difference between good and evil. It's the difference between God and animals, since animals are innocent, because they don't have this ability. Animals are programmed an entirely different way than Humans are intellectually.
Props, though, you did answer my question as to why you think the Nephilim aren't the fallen angels they're generally regarded as being my Christians. I find the answer full of yet-unexplained assumptions, but it was given.
Because Jesus tells us Angels don't marry (have sex) and that those who left their first estate are in chains under the darkness. Jesus also speaks of the sons of God and Humans in this way:
Genesis 6 King James Version (KJV)
6 And it came to pass, when men (Adam) began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God (prehistoric man) saw the daughters of men (Adam) that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord (YHWH/Jesus) said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Fallen Angels are not flesh, since flesh cannot enter heaven, 1Co 15:50 thus could not Fall from heaven, but prehistoric man was flesh, and could produce children with Humans, the descendants of Adam, the first Human, as the above verses show. The sons of God (prehistoric man of Flesh) was created and brought forth WITH every other creature (animal) on the 5th Day. Gen 1:21 God Bless you.
In Love,
Aman