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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reneshat" data-source="post: 5014149" data-attributes="member: 55068">In regards to the Nephilim, the only reference you'll find in common Christian texts, including the Apocrypha (those Catholic books between the old and new testament) is actually in Genesis.  It doesn't say a lot about them there, only making reference that they walked the earth in the days before Noah, and the offspring between the sons of God and the daughters of Man were mighty heroes.A more complete story is found is old Jewish lore however.  Most notably in what we believe to be the Book of Enoch.  The Book of Enoch was an excepted Jewish scriptural text around the time of Jesus, even being quoted from in Jude.  However, we lost all copies of that book before the Synod of Carthage, or the official determination of what constitutes the modern Christian Bible and what does not.  Much later, complete copies of what is believed to be the Book of Enoch were found in Ethiopia.  It is these transcripts which tell the more complete story.  As seeming verification of the validity of these translations, they match up with pieces of the Book of Enoch later found in the Dead Sea Scrolls.Basically, the Nephilim were angels tasked with watching over Earth.  However, over time they grew to lust after human women and power.  They took forms of flesh and ruled over the humans, producing half-celestial offspring of a mightly nature, think Heracules and Achilles.  They introduced such things as more advanced metal working, various forms of magic, and astrology.  Eventually, God sent an army of angels down to cleanse the earth of them.  However, they were not killed (maybe because they could not be) and were instead imprisoned.  The mightiest of the Nephilim and their leader was named Azazel.  It was not long after this that the flood supposedly occurred.In many ways the story holds similarities to the various mythologies of other early civilizations, especially Sumerian mythology.  The most striking difference is that while treated as gods are in the other mythologies, the nephilim are underneath Elohim and thus do not rank god status in the story.I think that should answer most of the questions.</blockquote>

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