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Stories
and legends extending
as far back as the
beginning of time in
every major culture
tell the astonishingly
consistent story of
“gods” that
descended from heaven
and materialized in
bodies of flesh. Our
working hypothesis is
that the so-called
extraterrestrials are
nothing new. Indeed,
they have been with us
all along. They appear
in our literature as
far back as records
extend.
According
to Enoch, two hundred
of these powerful
angels departed
“high heaven” and
used women (among
other things) to
extend their progeny
into mankind’s plane
of existence. David
Flynn referenced an
interlinear Hebrew
Bible which offers an
interesting
interpretation of
Genesis 6:2 in this
regard. Where the King
James Bible says,
“The sons of God saw
the daughters of men
that they [were]
fair,” Flynn
interprets this as,
“The benei Elohim
saw the daughters of
Adam, that they were fit extensions” (emphasis added).[v]
In
other words, they
wanted to incarnate
themselves into the
material world. The
New Testament also
suggests this idea
when Jude, the brother
of our Lord, wrote,
"And
the angels which kept
not their first
estate, but left their
own habitation [oikētērion]…"
(Jude 6). This Greek
term oikētērion
is
used by Paul in 2
Corinthians 5:2 to
denote the
transfigured body
given to believers in
heaven. This implies
that these fallen
angels indeed sought
to extend part of
themselves into
earthly bodies. The
rendering “fit
extensions” seems
applicable when the
whole of the ancient
record is understood
to mean that the
Watchers wanted to
leave their proper
sphere of existence in
order to enter
earth’s
three-dimensional
reality. They viewed
women—or at least
their genetic
material—as part of
the formula for
accomplishing this
task. Ancient records
suggest the Watchers
modified animals as
well. For instance, Jubilees
implies that
interspecies mingling
eventually resulted in
mutations among normal
humans and animals
whose “flesh”
(genetic makeup) was
“corrupted” by the
activity, presumably
through cross-genetic
integration:
Of
the “winged
humans” and
“dragon-like
monsters,” J. R.
Church once made an
interesting point that
since this activity
was satanic in nature,
it refers to the
“seed of the
serpent” that was at
enmity with Christ.
“The concept of a
reptilian race
continues throughout
the Bible as a
metaphoric symbol of
the devil,” he wrote
in Prophecy in the News magazine, February 2009. “Later Scriptures
add the term
‘dragon,’ with the
implication that these
other-worldly
creatures were
designed with the DNA
code of a reptilian
race.” Church went
on to state how some
of these satanic
creatures were
depicted as
“bat-like gargoyles,
or winged dragons”
in ancient art, and
that we should not be
surprised that “a
humanoid-type
reptilian race could
cohabit with human
women and produce a
race of giants.” In
what could be
historical support of
Dr. Church’s
premise, a document
fragment found in Cave
4 among the Dead Sea
Scrolls contains an
admonition by Amram,
the father of Moses,
to his children. In a
badly damaged segment
of the text, Amram
sees the chief Angel
of Darkness, A Watcher
named Melkireshaʿ
in the form of a reptilian:
It
is remarkable here
that Jude connects the
sin of the fallen
angels with the sexual
sins of Sodom and
Gomorrha using the
telling commentary
that they had gone
after “strange flesh”. This is the Greek sarkos heteros and contains a very important meaning connected to
how the men of Sodom
and Gomorrha wanted to
have sex with angels (see Gen. 19). Thus their sin is compared by Jude to
those angels of one
verse earlier, which
departed their proper
habitation in heaven
to comingle with
women. The Apostle
Paul also resonates
these demarcations in
1 Corinthians 15:40
when he says, “There
are also celestial
bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the
glory of the celestial
is one, and the glory
of the terrestrial is
another.” When
explaining how the
“heavenly” body is
made up of something
entirely different
than the “earthly
body,” is Paul
speaking
metaphysically or can
a difference in the
“raw material” of
these bodies be
assumed? Certainly it
can, because in the
verse just before this
one he speaks of the
differences between
the flesh of men,
beasts, fishes, and
birds, yet how these
are all of earthly
composition, as
opposed to the
following verse where
he clearly divides the
celestial body as
“another” type of
body not of the same
“terrestrial”
(terra firma, of the
earth) kind.
PART
4: THE FIRST
HYBRIDS
|
FIRST
CAME THE
VANGUARD.
|
Stories
and legends extending
as far back as the
beginning of time in
every major culture
tell the astonishingly
consistent story of
“gods” that
descended from heaven
and materialized in
bodies of flesh. Our
working hypothesis is
that the so-called
extraterrestrials are
nothing new. Indeed,
they have been with us
all along. They appear
in our literature as
far back as records
extend.
In some of the
earliest documents we
see a diverse
population of strange
entities being created
by the gods. For
instance, in the
Akkadian Epic of
Creation we read of
the chaos monster
Tiamat employing a
host of oddities:
"She deployed
serpents, dragons, and
hairy hero-men,
Lion
monsters, lion men,
scorpion men,
Mighty
demons, fish men, bull
men,
Bearing
unsparing arms,
fearing no battle."
[i]
As the cuneiform
tablets recount, the
deity Enki believed
correctly that Apsu,
upset with the chaos
they created, was
planning to murder the
younger deities; and
so captured him,
holding him prisoner
beneath is temple
called E-Abzu. This
angered Kingu, their
son, who reported the
event to Tiamat,
whereupon she
fashioned eleven
monsters to battle the
deities in order to
avenge Apsu's death.
These were her own
offspring: Bašmu,
“Venomous Snake,”
Ušumgallu, “Great
Dragon,” Mušmaḫḫū,
“Exalted Serpent,”
Mušḫuššu,
“Furious Snake,”
Laḫmu, the
“Hairy One,”
Ugallu, the “Big
Weather-Beast,”
Uridimmu, “Mad
Lion,” Girtablullû,
“Scorpion-Man,” Umū
dabrūtu,
“Violent Storms,”
Kulullû,
“Fish-Man,” and
Kusarikku,
“Bull-Man.” These
entities are recorded
in the earliest
records and find
astonishing parallels
in later literature.
From the Sumerians
through the Akkadians
to the ancient Hebrews
these legends have
remained consistent.
Later, “ancient
Greek and Roman myths
were populated not
only by gods, heroes,
and demons,” Brother
Guy Consolmagno from
VATT at Mt. Graham
reminded us, “but by
any number of strange
and monstrous beings.”[ii]
Thus,
from Rome to
Greece—and before
that, to Egypt,
Persia, Assyria,
Babylonia, and Sumer—the
earliest records of
civilization reveal an
era when powerful
beings known to the
Hebrews as Watchers
and in the book of
Genesis as the benei
ha-elohim (sons of
God) descended to
earth, mingled
themselves with
humans, and gave birth
to part-celestial,
part-terrestrial
hybrids known as Nephilim. The Bible says this happened when civilization expanded
and daughters were
born to men. When the
sons of God saw the
women’s beauty, they
took wives from among
them to sire their
unusual offspring. In
Genesis 6:4 we read
the following account:
“There were giants
in the earth in those
days; and also after
that, when the sons of
God came in unto the
daughters of men, and
they bare children to
them, the same became
mighty men which were
of old, men of
renown.”
When
this Scripture is
compared with other
ancient texts,
including those by
early Church Fathers
such as Justin,
Irenaeus, Athenagoras,
Commodianus, Julius
Africanus, Clement,
Tertulluan, Methodius,
and Ambrose, not to
mention works like the
books of Enoch,
Jubilees, Baruch,
Genesis Apocryphon,
Philo, Josephus,
Jasher, The Testament
of the 12 Patriarchs,
and many more, the
firmly held ancient
belief becomes clear
that the giants of the
Old Testament, such as
Goliath, were
part-human,
part-animal,
part-angelic offspring
of a supernatural
interruption into the
divine order and
natural propagation of
the species.
The
first-century
Romano-Jewish
historian Flavius
Josephus described
part of the story this
way:
For many angels of God accompanied with women, and begat sons that
proved unjust, and
despisers of all that
was good, on account
of the confidence they
had in their own
strength; for the
tradition is, that
these men did what
resembled the acts of
those whom the
Grecians call giants.
But Noah was very
uneasy at what they
did; and being
displeased at their
conduct, persuaded
them to change their
dispositions and their
acts for the better:
but seeing they did
not yield to him, but
were slaves to their
wicked pleasures, he
was afraid they would
kill him, together
with his wife and
children, and those
they had married; so
he departed out of
that land. [iii]
The
early Church Father
Irenaeus added that
the angels used women
not only to sire
“giants” but
taught them
enchantments
specifically for the
purpose of casting
lust-potions to lure
both men and angels to
their beds:
And for a very long while wickedness extended and spread, and reached
and laid hold upon the
whole race of mankind,
until a very small
seed of righteousness
remained among them
and illicit unions
took place upon the
earth, since angels
were united with the
daughters of the race
of mankind; and they
bore to them sons who
for their exceeding
greatness were called
giants. And the angels
brought as presents to
their wives teachings
of wickedness, in that
they brought them the
virtues of roots and
herbs, dyeing in
colors and cosmetics,
the discovery of rare
substances,
love-potions,
aversions, amours,
concupiscence,
constraints of love,
spells of bewitchment,
and all sorcery and
idolatry hateful to
God; by the entry of
which things into the
world evil extended
and spread, while
righteousness was
diminished and
enfeebled. [iv]
While
the prophet Daniel
called certain
powerful angels
“Watchers” in
canonical scripture
(Dan. 4:13,17,23), it
was the apocryphal
book of Enoch that
first described their
cosmic conspiracy. We
read:
And
I Enoch was blessing
the Lord of majesty
and the King of the
ages, and lo! the
Watchers called
me—Enoch the
scribe—and said to
me: “Enoch, thou
scribe of
righteousness, go,
declare to the
Watchers of the heaven
who have left the high
heaven, the holy
eternal place, and
have defiled
themselves with women,
and have done as the
children of earth do,
and have taken unto
themselves wives: Ye
have wrought great
destruction on the
earth: And ye shall
have no peace nor
forgiveness of sin:
and inasmuch as they
delight themselves in
their children [the
Nephilim], The murder
of their beloved ones
shall they see, and
over the destruction
of their children
shall they lament, and
shall make
supplication unto
eternity, but mercy
and peace shall ye not
attain” (1 Enoch
10:3–8).
According
to Enoch, two hundred
of these powerful
angels departed
“high heaven” and
used women (among
other things) to
extend their progeny
into mankind’s plane
of existence. David
Flynn referenced an
interlinear Hebrew
Bible which offers an
interesting
interpretation of
Genesis 6:2 in this
regard. Where the King
James Bible says,
“The sons of God saw
the daughters of men
that they [were]
fair,” Flynn
interprets this as,
“The benei Elohim
saw the daughters of
Adam, that they were fit extensions” (emphasis added).[v]
In
other words, they
wanted to incarnate
themselves into the
material world. The
New Testament also
suggests this idea
when Jude, the brother
of our Lord, wrote,
"And
the angels which kept
not their first
estate, but left their
own habitation [oikētērion]…"
(Jude 6). This Greek
term oikētērion
is
used by Paul in 2
Corinthians 5:2 to
denote the
transfigured body
given to believers in
heaven. This implies
that these fallen
angels indeed sought
to extend part of
themselves into
earthly bodies. The
rendering “fit
extensions” seems
applicable when the
whole of the ancient
record is understood
to mean that the
Watchers wanted to
leave their proper
sphere of existence in
order to enter
earth’s
three-dimensional
reality. They viewed
women—or at least
their genetic
material—as part of
the formula for
accomplishing this
task. Ancient records
suggest the Watchers
modified animals as
well. For instance, Jubilees
implies that
interspecies mingling
eventually resulted in
mutations among normal
humans and animals
whose “flesh”
(genetic makeup) was
“corrupted” by the
activity, presumably
through cross-genetic
integration:
And
injustice increased
upon the earth, and all
flesh corrupted its
way; man and
cattle and beasts and
birds and everything
which walks on the
earth. And they all
corrupted their way
and their ordinances,
and they began to eat
one another. And
injustice grew upon
the earth and every
imagination of the
thoughts of all
mankind was thus
continually evil.
(Jubilees 5:2
underline added, cf. 7:21–25)[vi]
Even
the Old Testament
contains reference to
the mutations that
developed among humans
following this time
frame, including
“men” of unusual
size, physical
strength, six fingers,
six toes, animal
appetite for blood,
and even lion-like
features (2 Samuel
21:20; 23:20). Early
Church Father Eusebius
adds other important
details:
And
they begat human
beings, with two
wings; and then others
with four wings and
two faces and one body
and two heads… still
others with horses’
hooves, and others in
the shape of a horse
at the rear and a
human shape at the
front… they also
made bulls with human
heads and horses with
dogs’ heads as well
as other monsters with
horses heads and human
bodies… then all kinds of dragon-like monstrous beings… [emphasis added] [vii]
Of
the “winged
humans” and
“dragon-like
monsters,” J. R.
Church once made an
interesting point that
since this activity
was satanic in nature,
it refers to the
“seed of the
serpent” that was at
enmity with Christ.
“The concept of a
reptilian race
continues throughout
the Bible as a
metaphoric symbol of
the devil,” he wrote
in Prophecy in the News magazine, February 2009. “Later Scriptures
add the term
‘dragon,’ with the
implication that these
other-worldly
creatures were
designed with the DNA
code of a reptilian
race.” Church went
on to state how some
of these satanic
creatures were
depicted as
“bat-like gargoyles,
or winged dragons”
in ancient art, and
that we should not be
surprised that “a
humanoid-type
reptilian race could
cohabit with human
women and produce a
race of giants.” In
what could be
historical support of
Dr. Church’s
premise, a document
fragment found in Cave
4 among the Dead Sea
Scrolls contains an
admonition by Amram,
the father of Moses,
to his children. In a
badly damaged segment
of the text, Amram
sees the chief Angel
of Darkness, A Watcher
named Melkireshaʿ
in the form of a reptilian:
I
saw Watchers in my
vision, a dream
vision, and behold two
(of them) argued about
me and said … and
they were engaged in a
great quarrel
concerning me. I asked
them: ‘You, what are
you … thus … about
me?’ They answered
and said to me: ‘We
have been made masters
and rule over all the
sons of men.’ And
they said to me:
‘Which of us do you
choose …
I
raised my eyes and saw
one of them. His looks
were frightening like
those of a viper, and
his garments were
multi-coloured and he
was extremely dark …
And
afterwards I looked
and behold … by his
appearance and his
face was like that of
an adder [a venomous
snake], and he was
covered with …
together, and his eyes
…” [viii]
The
fact that the Watchers
are described in
explicitly reptilian
terms by the
ancient Hebrews
grounds the ufological
discussion of such
beings and their
interactions with man
firmly in ancient
history. Case in
point, Dr. John
Mack’s seminal work
on the abduction
phenomenon cites many
cases involving
entities meeting the
same description as
that found in the Dead
Sea Scrolls. For
example, the
description by Sara,
“The head was the
most prominent part of
the body and was ‘shimmery,’
looking
‘reptilian,’
almost ‘snake like,
serpent like’ and
quite elongated.”[ix]
Furthermore,
contrary to the
revisionist accounts
given by Ancient
Astronaut theorists,
this implies the
so-called Reptilians
are, in fact, Watchers
pursuing a more
sinister agenda than
scientific
exploration. Yet,
abductee testimonies
also suggest their
interest in genetic
material is very real.
Perhaps
the most
“scientific”
description concerning
the Watcher
experiments and their
genetic modification
of humans and animals
comes to us from the
book of Jasher, a
Hebrew text that adds
an exceptional detail
that none of the other
texts is as
unequivocal about,
something that can
only be understood in
modern language to
mean advanced
biotechnology, genetic
engineering, or
“transgenic
modification” of
species. After the
Watchers had
instructed humans
“in the secrets of
heaven,” note what
it says occurred:
[Then]
the sons of men [began
teaching] the mixture
of animals of one
species with the
other, in order
therewith to provoke
the Lord. (Jasher
4:18)
It
does seem likely that
the phrase “the
mixture of animals of
one species with the
other” means
Watchers had taught
men something more
than natural animal
crossbreeding, as this
would not have
“provoked the
Lord.” God made like
animals of different
breeds capable of
reproducing. For
example, horses can
propagate with other
mammals of the equidae
classification (the
taxonomic “horse
family”), including
donkeys and zebras. It
would not have
“provoked the
Lord” for this type
of animal breeding to
have taken place, as
God Himself made the
animals able to do
this.
If,
on the other hand, the
Watchers were crossing
species boundaries by
mixing incompatible
animals of one species with the other, such as a horse with a human (a
centaur), this would
have been a different
matter altogether and
may cast light on the
numerous ancient
stories of mythical
beings of
variant-species
manufacturing that fit
perfectly within the
records of what the
Watchers were
accomplishing.
Understandably, this
kind of chimera-making
would have “provoked
the Lord” and raises
the serious question
why the Watchers would
have risked eternal
damnation by tinkering
with God’s creation
in this way. Several
theories exist as to
“why” watchers
would have corrupted
natural genotypes,
including the idea
that: 1) because
Yahweh had placed
boundaries between the
species and strictly
ordered that “each
kind” reproduce only
after its “own
kind,” the Watchers
as rebels sought to
break these rules in
order to assault
God’s creative
genius through
biologically altering
what He had made; 2)
the corruption of
antediluvian DNA by
Watchers was an effort
to cut off the birth
line of the Messiah.
This theory posits
that Satan understood
the protoevangelium—the
promise in Genesis
3:15 that a Savior
would be born, the
seed of the woman, and
that He would destroy
the fallen angel’s
power. Satan’s
followers therefore
intermingled with the
human race in a conspiracy
to stop the birth of
Christ. If human DNA
could be universally
corrupted or
“demonized,” they
reasoned, no Savior
would be born and mankind
would be lost forever.
Those who support this
theory believe this is
why God ordered His
people to maintain a
pure bloodline and not
to intermarry with the
other nations. When
the Hebrews breached
this command and the
mutated DNA began
rapidly spreading
among men and animals,
God instructed Noah to
build an ark and to
prepare for a flood
that would destroy
every living thing,
the purpose of which
would be to purge the
earth of the
contaminated genotypes
and phenotypes.
Finally,
a third theory as to
why Watchers merged
the genetics of
various life forms
incorporates the
voluminous ancient
“Watcher” texts
into a consistent
account regarding the
overriding motive for
what the Watchers had
apparently used DNA
for. When this is
done, it becomes clear
that genetic
substances were for
them an earth-centric
and organic
construction material
(or as Dr. Jacques
Vallée called it,
“living energy”)
[x]
for building a
composite body that
would allow them to
leave their plane of
existence and to enter
man’s (see Jude 1:6;
2 Pet: 2:4). The
challenge of this
theory becomes how
intermingling various
species would satisfy
this goal or provide
the Watchers with a
method of departure
from “high heaven”
and incarnation into
man’s
“habitation.”
While we will not take
time here to explain
every detail, the
hypothesis involves
the Watchers combining
species in order to
create a soulless
or spiritless body—a
living but empty
“large organism”
or “shell” into
which they could
extend themselves. The
rationale here is that
every creature as it
existed originally had
its beginning in God,
who wove a barrier
between the species
and ordered each
creature to reproduce
“after its own
kind.” The phrase
“after its own
kind” verifies what
type of spirit can
enter into an
intelligent being at
conception. When the
sperm of a dog meets
ovum of a dog and the
life of a dog is
formed, at the first
spark of life the
spirit (or
“nature” when
speaking of an animal)
of a dog enters that
embryo and it grows to
become a dog in spirit
and form. The spirit
of a man does not
enter it, in the same
way that a man is not
born with the spirit
of a horse or cow.
This creature/spirit
integrity is part of
the divine order and
would have kept the
Watchers, who wanted
to incarnate within
the human realm (not
just “possess”
creatures), from
displacing the spirits
of humans or animals
and replacing them
with their own. How
did the Watchers
overcome this problem?
It appears based on
the ancient records
(and like modern
scientists are doing
today) they blended
existing DNA of
several living
creatures and made
something that neither
the spirit of man or
beast would enter at
conception, for it was
neither man nor beast.
As Mysterious
World, in its 2003 feature, “Giants in the Earth,” noted:
The
Nephilim were
genetically
manufactured beings
created from the
genetic material of
various pre-existing
animal species.… The
fallen angels did not
personally interbreed
with the daughters of
men, but used their
godlike intellect to
delve into the secrets
of YHWH’s Creation
and manipulate it to
their own purposes.
And the key to
creating or recreating
man, as we have (re)discovered
in the twentieth
century, is the human
genome—DNA.
According
to this extrapolation
from the ancient
accounts, the
manipulation of living
tissue by the fallen
angels led to an
unusual body made up
of human, animal, and
plant genetics known
as Nephilim, an
“earth-born”
facsimile or “fit
extension” into
which they could
incarnate.
While this
theory significantly
adds to the ancient
record, it seeks to
modernize the
ancients’
description of what
they, perhaps, did not
fully grasp through
the lens of a
prescientific
worldview and
vocabulary.
Interestingly, science
has uncovered
unexpected evidence
for this in the human
genome.
The
Washington Post
recently published a
story on findings that
a “mystery”
species with partial
human DNA once walked
the earth. The story,
titled “Sex with
early mystery species
of humans seen in DNA,
UW researcher says,”
is just the latest in
a series of similar
recent finds, and
while no fossilized
giant bones were found
in this case, a
calling card was left
in present-day
Africans: snippets
of “foreign” DNA.
“These genetic
leftovers do not
resemble DNA from any
modern humans,” the
article reports before
adding this bombshell:
“The foreign DNA
also does not resemble
Neanderthal DNA, which
shows up in the DNA of
some modern Europeans.
That means the newly
identified DNA came
from an
unknown
group.”[xi]
Given
the above theories,
the biblical story of
Nephilim offspring
offers the most
satisfying answer to
this enigma.
One
objection occasionally
raised against the
idea of part-men
hybrids born as a
result of union
between angelic and
human “genetics”
is the belief that
angels are supposedly
sexless, since Jesus
said at the
resurrection that
people will neither
marry nor be given in
marriage but shall be
“like the angels in
heaven.” However, as
James Montgomery Boice
points out, the words
recorded in Matthew
22:30 “are not the
equivalent of saying
that the angels are
sexless or that they
could not have had
sexual relations with
women if they had
chosen to do so. In
heaven human beings
will not marry but
will nevertheless
retain their identity,
which includes their
being either male or
female. In the same
way, the angels could
also have sexual
identities. It is
significant perhaps
that when the angels
are referred to in
Scripture it is always
with the masculine
pronoun ‘he,’ and
they are always
described as men.”
[xii]
Thus,
when Jesus said the
angels “in heaven”
do not marry, this is
a separate matter from
what those angels that
departed (or were cast
out of) heaven was
capable of doing and
apparently did. Jude
1:6-7 adds a deep and
important point about
this when it says:
And
the angels which kept
not their first
estate, but left their
own habitation, he
hath reserved in
everlasting chains
under darkness unto
the judgment of the
great day. Even as
Sodom and Gomorrha,
and the cities about
them in like manner,
giving themselves over
to fornication, and
going after strange
flesh, are set
forth for an example,
suffering the
vengeance of eternal
fire” [emphasis
added].
It
is remarkable here
that Jude connects the
sin of the fallen
angels with the sexual
sins of Sodom and
Gomorrha using the
telling commentary
that they had gone
after “strange flesh”. This is the Greek sarkos heteros and contains a very important meaning connected to
how the men of Sodom
and Gomorrha wanted to
have sex with angels (see Gen. 19). Thus their sin is compared by Jude to
those angels of one
verse earlier, which
departed their proper
habitation in heaven
to comingle with
women. The Apostle
Paul also resonates
these demarcations in
1 Corinthians 15:40
when he says, “There
are also celestial
bodies, and bodies
terrestrial: but the
glory of the celestial
is one, and the glory
of the terrestrial is
another.” When
explaining how the
“heavenly” body is
made up of something
entirely different
than the “earthly
body,” is Paul
speaking
metaphysically or can
a difference in the
“raw material” of
these bodies be
assumed? Certainly it
can, because in the
verse just before this
one he speaks of the
differences between
the flesh of men,
beasts, fishes, and
birds, yet how these
are all of earthly
composition, as
opposed to the
following verse where
he clearly divides the
celestial body as
“another” type of
body not of the same
“terrestrial”
(terra firma, of the
earth) kind.
According
to the Second Century
Apostolic father
Athenagoras, Lucifer
had been the angel
originally placed in
charge of the earthly
“matter” (see Plea
for the Christians).
After his fall, Satan
used his knowledge of
creation and genetics
to corrupt what God
had made. This is
interesting in light
of modern science and
the recent suggestion
that genetic
abnormalities “may
predispose a man to
antisocial behavior,
including crimes of
violence.” [xiii]
One of the hottest
topics in biology
today is the science
of “epigenetics,”
which involves
heritable changes in
gene expression or
cellular phenotypes
that can be caused by
“mechanisms” other
than normal changes
that occur in
underlying DNA
sequences—thus the
title epi-(Greek:
επί-
over, above,
outer)-genetics.
Whether
supernaturalism can
play a role as one of
these “outer
mechanisms” is
suggestive and many
scholars believe
demonic possession,
for instance, can
negatively affect
chromosomal health.
The New Testament is
replete with
connections between
sickness and genetic
disorders as directly
connected to demonism.
According to
theologian and
spiritual warfare
expert, Dr. Neil
Andersen,
“approximately
one-fourth of all the
healings recorded in
the Gospel of Mark
were actually
deliverances.”[xiv]
For example, “they
brought unto him many
that were possessed
with devils: and he
cast out the spirits
with his word, and
healed all that were
sick;” and, “when
he had called unto him
his twelve disciples,
he gave them power
against unclean
spirits, to cast them
out, and to heal all
manner of sickness and
all manner of
disease” (Mat. 8:16;
10:1).
But,
this is only part of
the story. There is a
difference between
demonized humans... and
them among us now.
Coming
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Difference between
Demonized Humans and
Soulless Hybrids
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