Does the Sons of God in Genesis 6:1-2 refer to fallen angels or the lineage of Seth?

Question

The Book of Genesis describes a time when there was an increasing wickedness on the face of the earth that provoked God to destroy them with the floods save for Noah and his family. I suspected it could be referring to fallen angels but then why would angelic sin cause God to destroy the world with the floods? After all the verse says that it is human wickedness that caused God to bring the floods.

Genesis 6:11-13

Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth. And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Notice the verse above, it talks about the corruption of all flesh which means it was human rebellion and the angels has nothing to do with it.

But then when we look at the Book of Job , the phrase sons of God has been used to refer to a group of angels who went to present themselves to God and Satan went with them.

Job 1:6-10

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

Does the Sons of God refer to the lineage of Seth or does it refer to angels?

Answer 1

Answer

The sons of God in Genesis 6:2 refers to the lineage of Seth.

Explanation

Genesis 6th chapter is a continuation of the 4th chapter. Chapter 5 is just an inset in between. The story continues from chapter 4 into chapter 6.

The last verse in chapter 4 says:

“And a son was also born to Seth, and he called his name, Enos. Then it was begun to call on the name of Yahweh.”

There is a marginal reading here that says:

“Then began men to call themselves by the name Yahweh” (various commentaries).

And how did they call themselves?

“Sons of God”.

This is similar to “people of God”, “prophets of God”, “saints of God”, “the Church of God” etc.

This was the very first group of people who followed the true God in history under the leadership of Seth. But soon, as usual, they faltered when they married beautiful women from the unbelievers’ camp (Gen 6:2).

It is then God said:

“My Spirit shall not always strive with man” (verse 3).

Conclusion

So the “sons of God” in Genesis 6:2 are not angels.