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Sex with God
I'm in.
It's a fairly common explanation in the ancient world for men who won great acclaim. Sex between mortals and deities happens all the time in Greco-Roman myth (which is highly derived from ANE myth). Some examples of mixed-parentage characters from myth: Herakles / Hercules Theseus Perseus Sarpedon Achilles Aneas Helen Some of these half-human / half-god people even achieved deified status: Dionysus Polydeuces (although he willingly shared it with his twin Castor) Herakles Some historical mortals were so famous that their genealogies were revised to make them the sons of gods: Alexander the Great Theagenes of Thasos Euthymos of Locri As in so many other ways, the Jesus story fits in nicely with its mythic parallels. In none of these (other) stories, however, does anyone pretend that the mother remained a virgin.
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Read Nibley's Enoch the Prophet.
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http://www.nwcreation.net/nephilim.html Here's another entertaining link http://bibleprobe.com/nephilim.htm 
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Ironically, Sex with God is the title of my wife's autobiography.
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Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug |
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