I'm reformed as well, I dont think the doctrine on Angels is particularly well settled.
However, i'm open to the fact that the offspring in genesis 6 may be the result of genetic manipulation, if you're trying to preserve that angels cannot take physical form. This would account for how the Nephilim seem to appear in the OT after the flood as well, namely that the experiments continued, or a more "natural explanation" could account for it..
If you prefer this biological / natural explanation for the Nephilim, i have another theory for you:
God chose Noah and his family because they were "clean/blameless in their genealogy/generations". Meaning, that they had not become expressive of the genetic plague that was infecting the world through this experiment. However, Noah's wife was probably the only other named woman in the genealogy of genesis 5, Naamah, a descendant of Cain.
If Naamah was a recessive "carrier" of the Nephilim genes (giantism, polydactylism, hyperaggression, etc), her sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, could have also been carriers.
Stay with me here..
After the flood, Noah became drunk. Then, "Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside."
The phrase "saw the nakedness of his father" is a very specific phrase that doesn't show up again until Lev 18:7-8:
‘The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness
‘The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.
This indicates that Ham "uncovering his fathers nakedness" was that Ham slept with Noah's wife (his mother), Naamah. Now, if that can be understood as the meaning of this, these two carriers, Ham and Naamah, produced a child, "And Ham was the father of Canaan", "Cursed be Canaan;
A servant of servants
He shall be to his brethren."
Canaan literally translates to "MY HUMILIATION". And from this line of people, the Nephilim bloodline was reintroduced after the flood. All the Nephilim, Goliath, the other sons of Anak, etc. come from this bloodline.
I'm reformed as well, I dont think the doctrine on Angels is particularly well settled.
However, i'm open to the fact that the offspring in genesis 6 may be the result of genetic manipulation, if you're trying to preserve that angels cannot take physical form. This would account for how the Nephilim seem to appear in the OT after the flood as well, namely that the experiments continued, or a more "natural explanation" could account for it..
If you prefer this biological / natural explanation for the Nephilim, i have another theory for you:
God chose Noah and his family because they were "clean/blameless in their genealogy/generations". Meaning, that they had not become expressive of the genetic plague that was infecting the world through this experiment. However, Noah's wife was probably the only other named woman in the genealogy of genesis 5, Naamah, a descendant of Cain.
If Naamah was a recessive "carrier" of the Nephilim genes (giantism, polydactylism, hyperaggression, etc), her sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, could have also been carriers.
Stay with me here..
After the flood, Noah became drunk. Then, "Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside."
The phrase "saw the nakedness of his father" is a very specific phrase that doesn't show up again until Lev 18:7-8:
‘The nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother you shall not uncover. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness ‘The nakedness of your father's wife you shall not uncover; it is your father's nakedness.
This indicates that Ham "uncovering his fathers nakedness" was that Ham slept with Noah's wife (his mother), Naamah. Now, if that can be understood as the meaning of this, these two carriers, Ham and Naamah, produced a child, "And Ham was the father of Canaan", "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."
Canaan literally translates to "MY HUMILIATION". And from this line of people, the Nephilim bloodline was reintroduced after the flood. All the Nephilim, Goliath, the other sons of Anak, etc. come from this bloodline.
Food for thought.