Just a thought here--I don't know if I would say I believe it or not, but I have been mulling the idea over for a couple of weeks now.
Someone said this, and it caught my attention because of the way he said it--the specific terminology used clicked iin my imagination. He brings the timelessness of Heaven into the mix and says that God cast the fallen angels across the 'landscape of time'--time being one with the material universe--and so they fell together but entered our realm at different points.
I don't know if I believe that or not, but it is an intriguing thought. And excellently worded, Jerry :)
And I do know the Nephilim controversy--that is flatly denied by many and very compellingly taught by some. I tend to believe the traditional story--that the Sons of God were angels, and thus their offspring, the Nephilim, were abominations, having no natural place in this earth or in heaven. Some believe that they had so compromised the human bloodlines that this is what is meant when the Bible says that Noah was perfect in his generations--and that God had to erase the human race from the earth (except for Noah, Joan, their sons and their wives) to purge it of the Nephilim and all who had allied themselves with them.
Another intriguing thought is this (you can thanik Perry Stone for this): The Bible does not mention demons before the Flood, and not really for some time afterward. One school of thought is that the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, having no place in Heaven (of course) wander(ed) the earth and became what the Bible began referring to as demons. The reason this makes some good sense is that the New Testament often addresses demons as 'unclean spirits', and a being born of a union between angels and humans would certainly fit in the unclean category, Biblically (this was flatly called an abomination in the Levitical laws). Also, consider that one of the most commonly reported activities of demons is the possession of human bodies--after thousands of years bound to the earth with no body, it makes sense that a being like this would seek to exploit humanity in order to resume his role on the earth...
Again, just some theories. I tend to like them, but I am no scholar. Maybe we will know one day for sure. Or, maybe it is part of another story to which we are not to be privy.
OKAY GOODNIGHT DEAR WARDROBE :yawn:
"If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself."--St. Augustine of Hippo