I don't mean to be rude but where do you get here? His last incantation or incarnation? These are important points. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't he born before Christ? If anything, I would slot Buddha as a Nephilim, it ticks all the boxes.
The Buddha died around 400 BCE. His enlightened soul went to the highest places of the summer lands for rest. He spent his time in deep meditation. He began to prepare himself for a greater work. And he returned to his last incarnation.
His final turn upon the wheel of life. He was born Yoshua Ben Yossef. He grew up in humble surroundings. He began to teach. We call him today Jesus.
Nephilim: there are two translations to the word.
1. Giant. (from wiki)
Most of the contemporary English translations of the Genesis 6:1-4 and Numbers 13:33 render the Heb.
nefilim as "giants". This tendency in turn stems from the fact that one of the earliest translation of the Hebrew Bible, the
Septuagint composed in III/II century BCE, renders the said word as
gigantes. The choice made by the Greek translators has been later adopted into the Latin translation,
Vulgate, compiled in IV/V century CE, which uses the transcription of the Greek term rather than the literal translation of the Heb.
nefilim. From there, the tradition of the giant progeny of the sons of God and the daughters of men spread to later medieval translations of the Bible.
2. fallen (from Wiki)
All early sources refer to the "sons of heaven" as angels. From the third century BCE onwards, references are found in the
Enochic literature, the
Dead Sea Scrolls (the
Genesis Apocryphon, the
Damascus Document, 4Q180),
Jubilees, the Testament of Reuben,
2 Baruch,
Josephus, and the
book of Jude (compare with 2 Peter 2). For example: 1 Enoch 7:2 "And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children." Some Christian apologists, such as
Tertullian and especially
Lactantius, shared this opinion.
The earliest statement in a secondary commentary explicitly interpreting this to mean that angelic beings mated with humans can be traced to the rabbinical
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and it has since become especially commonplace in modern-day Christian commentaries. This line of interpretation finds additional support in the text of Genesis 6:4 which juxtaposes the sons of God (male gender, divine nature) with the daughters of men (female gender, human nature). From this parallelism it could be inferred that the sons of God are understood as some superhuman beings.
[21]
The
New American Bible commentary draws a parallel to the
Epistle of Jude and the statements set forth in Genesis, suggesting that the Epistle refers implicitly to the paternity of Nephilim as heavenly beings who came to earth and had sexual intercourse with women.
[22] The footnotes of the
Jerusalem Bible suggest that the biblical author intended the Nephilim to be an "anecdote of a superhuman race".
[23]
Some Christian commentators have argued against this view, citing Jesus's statement that angels do not marry.
[24] Others believe that Jesus was only referring to angels in heaven.
[25]
Evidence cited in favor of the fallen angels interpretation includes the fact that the phrase "the sons of God" (Hebrew: בְּנֵי הָֽאֱלֹהִים; or "sons of the gods") is used twice outside of Genesis chapter 6, in the Book of Job (1:6 and 2:1) where the phrase explicitly references angels. The Septuagint manuscript
Codex Alexandrinus reading of Genesis 6:2 renders this phrase as "the angels of God" while
Codex Vaticanus reads "sons".
[26]
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan identifies the Nephilim as
Shemihaza and the angels in the name list from 1 Enoch.
[27]
so when using the word do you mean a giant? or a fallen Angel? And do you hold the bible is true and correct in all matters? Do you think the bible is a true account of all things? I could discuss the Bible in great detail but I will choose not to. Let us say there is truth in the Bible. As well as other holy books.
Blessed Be
Rikki
