On Genesis 6

This argument shows up the divide between academic oriented Christians and spiritual warfare oriented Christians. The latter know very well that God is referencing angels in Gen 6, and it is not a small matter considering the role fallen angels, demons (the disembodied spirits of dead giants) and hybrid people play in this fallen world, in the history of God's plan of redemption. Satan made several attempts to defile the royal blood line between Adam and Christ. He failed, but he left a lot of damage along the way. It is only half physical/half spiritual phenomena that can carry out plans of evil over centuries (culminating in world tyranny and, they think, victory over God and His elect). What happened before the flood is happening again today prior to the apocalypse. Academics generally have a vain contempt for the supernatural. Sometimes they're unconscious of it.