Sons of God

[woodface]

Demons and angels were born out of the loss of knowledge of the ancient religions. Bene ha elohim, sons of the lord, were probably Canaanite gods, incorrect translations of the Hebrew text to Greek, translated it as "god's angels". The translation then to Latin changed it to filii Israël, sons of Israel. Based on Deuteronomium, Greek church fathers believed that every nation stood under the protection of it's own angel.

The passage that intrigues me most is Genesis 6:1-4 though. It tells how the filii Dei noticed how beatiful the human daughters were and each chose a wife. But God said his life spirit wouldn't stay with the humans as they are insignificatn beings and will only live for 120 years. As a result of the mating between his sons and the daughters, giants now lived on earth, the tyrants of the old time.

Comments

[nhawk.livejournal.com]

Interesting :D

*waves* I haven't been online for a whole day and a half - I'm now I'm at skip=160! Oy!

Glad to hear your exam went well. Not long to go now and they'll all be over :) And you seem to have done well so far. *HUGS my clever sweet*

[woodface]

Hee, good luck!

How did your exam go?

Munchkin, I have a text for that icon you were making me!!! "She loses a little each day"

*smoooooooooch*

[nhawk.livejournal.com]

Hee, good luck!

Thanks, but I'm bad at commenting at the best of times, I think I'll have to just forget about those 160+ posts. :(

How did your exam go?

Hmm, it was harder than I expected and they brought the exam forward in the day, so I didn't get to revise over my lunch break. Eeek. I had to guess on some of the questions. Some of it was okay. I guess we'll see..

Munchkin, I have a text for that icon you were making me!!! "She loses a little each day"

Oh yeah, that icon. Oops ;) Nice text! Will have to work on that tonight.

{smooooooooooochies}

[woodface]

Awwwwwww, I bet you kicked their butts anyway *huggles*

No hurries on the icon

*knuffels*

[nhawk.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks, sweet. :)

Will definitely do the icon tonight (with your help *g*.)

{{huggles}}

[woodface]

LOL, k cool *g*

[callista1159.livejournal.com]

my favourite piece of trivia in the whole world is on the transliterated version of the first words of genesis, bereshul bara elohim: in the beginning, the gods hacked. none of this 'in the beginning, god made the world'...

funny how things get changed around from language to language...

[woodface]

Yes, it is intrigueing how much a translation can change things.

They hacked into whom's systems? ;o)

[callista1159.livejournal.com]

*g*

some english dude's translation program :P

[woodface]

You know, I don't think English even existed back then.

[mebfeather.livejournal.com]

It didn't. :)

[callista1159.livejournal.com]

lol, i figured - i just don't know when the translation problems came in - from Hebrew to Greek? To Latin? From Latin to the vernacular? I've just been reading about the legitimisation of the ENglish version of the Bible during the Renaissance - it was banned for so long!

[woodface]

Hmmm according to what I read from Hebrew to Greek and then again from Greek to Latin ;o)

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I haven't taken part in a good "sons of God and daughters of men" conversation in a very long time. My favorite piece of fiction on the subject is "Many Waters" by Madeline L'Engle.

I just had to comment about the Hebrew to Greek to Latin thing, though. Some of the modern Bibles have been translated from the Latin, but the KJV was translated directly from the Hebrew. If Rob were skulking around, I'm sure he'd have something to say about that, but IMO it's the best translation.

I believe in angels and demons.

[woodface]

Well, I'm not talking about modern Bibles actually. I was talking about a greek version and the Vulgate during the middle ages. The dutch bible that I have however did uphold the translation they gave in the article I read about this. I'm however not sure how much of my translation to English will remain though.

And damn L'Engle! It was tickling my muse ;o)

I believe in angels, but not the ones comign from heaven. I believe in demons, but not the ones coming from hell (or heaven). They're in the people you meet every day.