Category: 1 Enoch

Losing our identity (Genesis 6:1-8)

Why was there a flood in Noah’s day? Genesis introduces the story like this:

Genesis 6:1-2 (NIV)
1 When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.

Who does sons of God refer to? It is the human descendants in the image of God, as in the previous chapter? Or is it angels?

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Son of Man in Enoch

Did any texts refer to a messianic figure as “the son of man” before the Gospels? There may have been.

Jesus designated himself “the son of man” more than 80 times according to the Gospels, even though this phrase was not a messianic title in Jewish literature before his time. But there may be an intriguing exception: a book known as 1 Enoch. Continue reading “Son of Man in Enoch”