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Originally Posted by BobVigneault  I like the angels/demon interp because it cleans up those other obscure an troublesome verses:
Peter even uses the word Tarturus borrowing from the Titans story.
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Bob,
I’m not seeing how the theory helps with the understanding of these verses.
Also, don’t we have a problem the basis of justice for God’s condemning these “creatures”? They were not sons of Adam, so they did not have his sin imputed to them. And we have not testimony in Scripture of imputation of sin to angelic beings.
And why would the Scripture refer to fallen angels as “sons of God”? In what way are they God’s sons?
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault Further this interp gives a reason why God destroyed every living thing. The earth had become inhabited with creatures that were part angel and man, the angel part making them unredeemable. |
Don’t we already have that reason given to us in Gen. 6:6,7. “And the Lord was sorry that
He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, ‘
I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.’”
It says “man”, not angelic half breeds. And he lists the creation order, man, beasts, and birds of the air.
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Originally Posted by BobVigneault The scripture is vague on the the topic, lets be satisfied that the answer is not meant to be found because it's not really important to redemptive history. |
But it does need to be consistent with what we know of redemptive history. With the Bible being silent on any sort of redemptive plan for angelic beings, this theory seems to cause more problems than it solves.