Comments on: The Riddle of the Rephaim

By: Paul D.

Paul D. — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:50:29 +0000

The relentless barrage of comments on this website by angry evangelicals who take the Bible literally and refuse to learn actual scholarship is both entertaining and kind of sad.

By: Patrick Tilton

Patrick Tilton — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:07:17 +0000

My understanding of the GENESIS 6 narrative differs from what many scholars seem to hold. The text refers to the “Sons of God” [B*NeY Ha’eLoHiYM, i.e. “Sons of the Gods”] seeing how sexy the “Daughters of Adam/Man” were, whereupon they ‘took’ wives from amongst them — the verb ‘take’ harkening back to how Eve ‘took’ the forbidden fruit, etc.
These members of the ‘Divine Assembly’ — God’s immortal heavenly offspring — were not supposed to cohabit with His mortal children, and here’s where MY interpretation differs from the ‘consensus’ view: the NePhiLiYM — the “Fallen Ones” — are, in MY opinion, the same Beings who had been referred to as the “Sons of God” . . . but, because their disobedience regarding cohabiting with mortal humans was so offensive to God, He effectively DISOWNED His heavenly children, so that they would nevermore be referred to as “Sons of God” and instead would be referred to as the “Fallen Ones” [NePhiLiYM].
The Nephilim are NOT the hybrid offspring of the Sons of God borne by the Daughters of Adam/Man, as the ‘consensus’ view has it. The Sons of God were DISOWNED and, no longer being deemed His children anymore, were to be known afterwards as the Fallen Ones. These Fallen Ones begot the hybrid offspring — the half-‘divine’/half-human spawn of this unholy generation — who are referred to as the GiBBoRiYM, the “Mighty Ones,” the so-called “heroes.”
Jonathan Yogev, in this article, makes the same mistaken equivalence of the Nephilim with the ‘Heroes’, when it was the Gibborim who were the ‘Heroes’, the hybrid offspring. The Nephilim BEGAT the Gibborim.
Because these hybrid beings, these Gibborim or ‘Mighty Ones’, were half-human AND half-‘divine’, the ‘divine’ half of their essence could not DIE the same way that wholly Human beings inherited the mortality of Adam and Eve following the Fall. Thus, the disembodied spirits of the Gibborim in the aftermath of the Flood — which was sent to wipe out the ‘infected’ bloodline (Noah being saved because he was “pure in his generations”) — were not relegated to Sheol, i.e. to Hades, as were the spirits of the human dead. Rather, the evil spirits of the Mighty Ones, the Gibborim, were condemned to ‘Tartarus’ — i.e. making them equivalent to the Greek Titans who warred against the Olympian Gods and were punished with incarceration in a special prison for the extra-extra-evil types who were ‘higher’ than mortal Humans.
To sum up: the IMMORTAL Sons of God saw how sexy the MORTAL female humans were, and so they RAPED many of them, taking them as ‘wives’ — and, remember, when a rapist had ‘shamed’ a female victim, his punishment was to MARRY his victim, which disgusts us in the Modern Age since it further victimizes the raped woman, who shouldn’t have to be subjected to her victimizer’s further depredations; similarly, the rapist Sons of God take their female human victims as ‘wives’, but can no longer be deemed God’s heavenly children, so they are thenceforward referred to as the Nephilim, the Fallen Ones, because they fell from ‘heavenly’ status and had to remain on Earth. These former-Sons of God — now Nephilim/Fallen Ones — were the Begetters of the ‘Mighty Ones’, the Gibborim (mistranslated ‘Heroes’), whose numbers increased to the point that nearly all of Adam’s descendants had become ‘polluted’ by this miscegenation — but Noah and his family were “pure” in their generations. Then the Flood killed everyone except for Noah’s family — wiping out the Nephilim AND their hybrid spawn, the Gibborim — and the ‘divine’ part of their spirits were condemned to a harsher spot in ‘Hell’, the place referred to as ‘Tartarus’, comparing their fate with that of the Titans who fought against the Olympian Gods in Greek myth.

By: Erick Kamau

Erick Kamau — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:40:33 +0000

In reply to Dr. Eric Rice. Absolutely bro it pissed me of a bit too cause The editor fails to acknowledge that the nations are telling of the same narrative but from different perspectives

By: John hampton-guest

John hampton-guest — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:41:15 +0000

In reply to Ethna. I was a student of Dr Heiser and his conclusions would disagree with this article and any paper that doesn’t reference him is severely at a disadvantage

By: Dr. Eric Rice

Dr. Eric Rice — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:03:17 +0000

“… the Bible, which was edited and corrected according to different agendas over hundreds of years,” is this your belief or do you have a source? Or maybe it’s your agenda. To begin your paper with this premise makes me wonder why you tried to make a biblical connection for the Rephaim at all!

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:21:57 +0000

This by far a very upcoming subject based on the idea that the final days of the ages leading into the Kingdom age will fully and completely be as the days of Noah. With that said there will be a resurgence of the Rephaim and Nephilim. These beings are believed to be the offspring of the fallen angels and women of men. They are the heros and false gods of the mythology of both Greek and Roman. They are mentioned in the Bible and the Story in the stars that was actually the first sign of hope God had not abandoned us.

There are some very good books that are Bible based on this. On is Beyond Flesh and Blood The Ultimate Guide To Angels and Demons, and, As the days of Noah were. by Dante Fortson. Gospel in the Stars by Joseph Seiss. There are many more but the reality of this is we are coming into the final days of this age and there are already signs showing that man (leaders and innovators) are already in contact with these beings

By: Ethna

Ethna — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 15:40:28 +0000

The author of this article desperately needs to read Dr. Michael Heiser’s work (may he rest in peace) on this subject. Specifically, he should watch Dr. Mike’s Supernatural series (latest version) on YouTube and read his books, Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon & Demons. Lastly, if he hasn’t already, he needs to read 1 Enoch. He will gain a much fuller picture of exactly why the Israelites were commanded to wipe them out in Canaan and why all the other nations revered them.