3836 — The Saints of God
By Editor
Who are the "sons of God" spoken of in Genesis, chapter 6, as marrying the "daughters of men"? H. H. C. Evidently the men who profess the religion of God. Division came after sin entered. This is indicated by various expressions. For instance, in chapter 4:26 we read, "Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah," or, as the margin reads, "to call themselves by the name of Jehovah." The children of Seth were those who had faith in God. The children of Cain became the sons of men, and looked simply to this earth life. They did not have the faith in God that was manifest in Abel, and afterward in Seth. The one class were men of the world; the other, children of God. But the children of God, with their human desires, looked upon the daughters of men, and saw that they were fair, and took them wives of all that they chose; and just the same as Solomon's heart and the hearts of others were weaned away from God by their wives, just so the sons of God became corrupted in this way. Mighty men sprang from them, but these men themselves were corrupt and wicked at heart.