The Sons of God, or Watchers, rebelled against God and tried to take his creation for their own. Part of that rebellion was corrupting Gods perfect creation - man. Some of this is detailed in the War scroll and some in the Book of Enoch.
God flooded the world to get rid of the corruption of the Watchers, and according to the Book of Giants, God granted clemency to some of the Nephelim at Noah’s request.
To make sure man was free of spiritual corruption, he laid out 10 simple rules for us to follow - the 10 commandments. Sin appears to violating that extremely simple rule set.
These rules appear to be in place to help us fend off the corruption introduced by the Watchers and, when we fuck up - like we always do - we need to be disciplined just like we would disciple our own children when they insist on endangering themselves by ignoring the rules we set for their own safety.
Most of the horror show in the Old Testament is God continuing to purge the blight introduced by the watchers. Some of the events (I believe) are Jewish bull worship traditions being introduced to the text and blended with the identity of God to muddy the waters. Like I said, Jews love worshiping Bull gods, and love child sacrifice too for some reason
Eventually Jesus showed up to remind man that the rules were simple and forgiveness guaranteed, just like we would forgive our own children (see the parable of the Prodigal son).
I have to ask, what is sin? The 10 commandments? And who is the victim? Are we cursed for victimless crimes?
I don’t think so.
The Sons of God, or Watchers, rebelled against God and tried to take his creation for their own. Part of that rebellion was corrupting Gods perfect creation - man. Some of this is detailed in the War scroll and some in the Book of Enoch.
God flooded the world to get rid of the corruption of the Watchers, and according to the Book of Giants, God granted clemency to some of the Nephelim at Noah’s request.
To make sure man was free of spiritual corruption, he laid out 10 simple rules for us to follow - the 10 commandments. Sin appears to violating that extremely simple rule set.
These rules appear to be in place to help us fend off the corruption introduced by the Watchers and, when we fuck up - like we always do - we need to be disciplined just like we would disciple our own children when they insist on endangering themselves by ignoring the rules we set for their own safety.
Most of the horror show in the Old Testament is God continuing to purge the blight introduced by the watchers. Some of the events (I believe) are Jewish bull worship traditions being introduced to the text and blended with the identity of God to muddy the waters. Like I said, Jews love worshiping Bull gods, and love child sacrifice too for some reason
Eventually Jesus showed up to remind man that the rules were simple and forgiveness guaranteed, just like we would forgive our own children (see the parable of the Prodigal son).