Question: Matthew 22:30 states that Angels cannot marry. Does this not disprove the Angelic incursion interpretation of Genesis 6?
For in the resurrection they [men] neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of Yahuwah in Heaven. (Matthew 22:30)
Answer: This verse and the others like it (Mark 12:25; Luke 20:34-36) pertain specifically to the angels of heaven and marriage. There is nothing in Scripture that says the rebellious "angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation" (Jude 1:6) are incapable of somehow reproducing.
Incidentally, Genesis 6 doesn't say anything about marriage. Rather, it says that the sons of Elohim "took them wives [women] of all which they chose."
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of Elohim saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives [women] of all which they chose. . . . There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Elohim 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. (Genesis 6:1-2, 4)
The word translated "wives" here is 'ishshah [H802],
which simply denotes a woman or women (opposite of man). 'Ishshah is translated as woman/women more
than 300 times in Scripture.
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