If angels and devils are the same species, why would their mortal offspring appear physically different?
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Angels were all originally part of the same race before the war in heaven, when the ones that rebelled were cast out and sent to hell. The humans on earth were similar to angels, but without the essence that made them divine. Among the angels that remained in heaven, some took a fondness for mortals and bred with them to produce mortal offspring called the nephilim. These creatures were monstrous giants that were bestial in nature and appearance, committing evil acts like cannibalism and murder. They were eventually wiped out, but the lesson learnt was that divine and mortal essences cannot mix.
However, this appears to not be the case. Devils, angels that were cast down from heaven, are still able to breed with mortals, producing cambions. The resulting offspring is still a monster, committing evil for its own sake. However, their bestial nature is internal rather than external, as they look completely human. Legends speak of the anti-christ, a being who would manipulate world governments and turn mankind to evil acts that have yet to be seen. This being would be the son of Lucifer, once the greatest of angels and responsible for the war in heaven. He now ruled hell, as he was cast into it with the angels that rebelled with him.
How is it that devils spawn monsters that look human, while the good angels produce monsters that look like monsters?
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Angels were all originally part of the same race before the war in heaven, when the ones that rebelled were cast out and sent to hell. The humans on earth were similar to angels, but without the essence that made them divine. Among the angels that remained in heaven, some took a fondness for mortals and bred with them to produce mortal offspring called the nephilim. These creatures were monstrous giants that were bestial in nature and appearance, committing evil acts like cannibalism and murder. They were eventually wiped out, but the lesson learnt was that divine and mortal essences cannot mix.
However, this appears to not be the case. Devils, angels that were cast down from heaven, are still able to breed with mortals, producing cambions. The resulting offspring is still a monster, committing evil for its own sake. However, their bestial nature is internal rather than external, as they look completely human. Legends speak of the anti-christ, a being who would manipulate world governments and turn mankind to evil acts that have yet to be seen. This being would be the son of Lucifer, once the greatest of angels and responsible for the war in heaven. He now ruled hell, as he was cast into it with the angels that rebelled with him.
How is it that devils spawn monsters that look human, while the good angels produce monsters that look like monsters?
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
5 hours ago
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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Angels were all originally part of the same race before the war in heaven, when the ones that rebelled were cast out and sent to hell. The humans on earth were similar to angels, but without the essence that made them divine. Among the angels that remained in heaven, some took a fondness for mortals and bred with them to produce mortal offspring called the nephilim. These creatures were monstrous giants that were bestial in nature and appearance, committing evil acts like cannibalism and murder. They were eventually wiped out, but the lesson learnt was that divine and mortal essences cannot mix.
However, this appears to not be the case. Devils, angels that were cast down from heaven, are still able to breed with mortals, producing cambions. The resulting offspring is still a monster, committing evil for its own sake. However, their bestial nature is internal rather than external, as they look completely human. Legends speak of the anti-christ, a being who would manipulate world governments and turn mankind to evil acts that have yet to be seen. This being would be the son of Lucifer, once the greatest of angels and responsible for the war in heaven. He now ruled hell, as he was cast into it with the angels that rebelled with him.
How is it that devils spawn monsters that look human, while the good angels produce monsters that look like monsters?
magic fantasy-races religion reproduction demons
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Angels were all originally part of the same race before the war in heaven, when the ones that rebelled were cast out and sent to hell. The humans on earth were similar to angels, but without the essence that made them divine. Among the angels that remained in heaven, some took a fondness for mortals and bred with them to produce mortal offspring called the nephilim. These creatures were monstrous giants that were bestial in nature and appearance, committing evil acts like cannibalism and murder. They were eventually wiped out, but the lesson learnt was that divine and mortal essences cannot mix.
However, this appears to not be the case. Devils, angels that were cast down from heaven, are still able to breed with mortals, producing cambions. The resulting offspring is still a monster, committing evil for its own sake. However, their bestial nature is internal rather than external, as they look completely human. Legends speak of the anti-christ, a being who would manipulate world governments and turn mankind to evil acts that have yet to be seen. This being would be the son of Lucifer, once the greatest of angels and responsible for the war in heaven. He now ruled hell, as he was cast into it with the angels that rebelled with him.
How is it that devils spawn monsters that look human, while the good angels produce monsters that look like monsters?
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
5 hours ago
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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– NofP
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
5 hours ago
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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– NofP
2 hours ago
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
5 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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– NofP
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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First a biblical answer and then a fictional suggestion. Use which one you like!
I think the consensus of biblical scholars is that the passage about nephilim is super weird and hard to be sure about. But it seems pretty clear that it's referring to fallen angels doing stuff. As for the antichrist, in other verses (Matt 24:24, stuff in 1st and 2nd John, etc) basically any spirit that denies Christ is the anti-christ. There are theories that the antichrist mentioned in Revelation was actually Nero, who seriously persecuted Christians. See for Christians, we've been living in the end times since Jesus rose.
But yeah! For a fictional suggestion... It's a really big thing that Satan is a liar. It's so much a part of what he is that Jesus said it's his native language. So the demons' monsters are monsters that are lying about being monsters. The other ones are honest about it, at least. But it's gonna be hard to explain why an angel following God would want to make a monster lol. Hope that helps!
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Hell is a pretty toxic environment. Being there over a long period of time has mutated the demons, causing them to look different from angels and passing on changes to their offspring.
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Angels still bear the blessing of good, while human and demons not.
When angels and humans breed, the interaction of a non blessed with a blessed cell messes up the appearance of the result being, while the pairs blessed-blessed or non blessed-non blessed give no issues under this point of view.
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Here are two creature of the same species:


If you and most of your kin looked like the first picture, you would probably consider the second picture--10 times larger, with an un-naturally slim face, threatening ears, loose jowls, and weirdly short and dark hair--to be a monster.
Very similar underlying genetics can cover for quite significant variance in phenotype.
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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– Jasper
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First we are to assume that Angels and Devils can be classifiable by species.
Second that they are the same taxonomic species.
Third that humans are of a different species?
Clearly then the answer is that it is something external to their taxonomic definition that allows interbreeding, as (going by our definition of species) neither could successfully breed with humans.
If it is an internal, integral and automatic capacity, neither Angels nor Devils can be classified as part of a species at all because they can breed with things other than themselves, so to speak.
In summary: However it occurs, to define Angels and Devils by specie must necessarily be flawed.
It follows anyway, that whatever agent it is that makes their breeding with humans possible is altered either as integral to their displacement(from Heaven or to Hell) or as a separate function imparted to their nature, rather than that of the agent. In real world terms it's theoretically feasible to create an egg or sperm that 'pulls apart' it's counterpart and reconstitutes it in a form viable for reproduction making ad hoc inter-species breeding possible.
If we consider that what makes Angels Angels must be 'impartable' only from the Divine, otherwise the Devil would simply make himself and his Devils undevilly, it would perhaps stand to reason that an Angel cannot simply make more Angels via mating, as it is not up to them to make more divinities, but the Divine. It might follow then that it is relatively easy to make more evil, but not so easy to make more good, so to speak. Heaven has an immigration policy to uphold after all, and free passes would make a mockery of that.
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First a biblical answer and then a fictional suggestion. Use which one you like!
I think the consensus of biblical scholars is that the passage about nephilim is super weird and hard to be sure about. But it seems pretty clear that it's referring to fallen angels doing stuff. As for the antichrist, in other verses (Matt 24:24, stuff in 1st and 2nd John, etc) basically any spirit that denies Christ is the anti-christ. There are theories that the antichrist mentioned in Revelation was actually Nero, who seriously persecuted Christians. See for Christians, we've been living in the end times since Jesus rose.
But yeah! For a fictional suggestion... It's a really big thing that Satan is a liar. It's so much a part of what he is that Jesus said it's his native language. So the demons' monsters are monsters that are lying about being monsters. The other ones are honest about it, at least. But it's gonna be hard to explain why an angel following God would want to make a monster lol. Hope that helps!
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First a biblical answer and then a fictional suggestion. Use which one you like!
I think the consensus of biblical scholars is that the passage about nephilim is super weird and hard to be sure about. But it seems pretty clear that it's referring to fallen angels doing stuff. As for the antichrist, in other verses (Matt 24:24, stuff in 1st and 2nd John, etc) basically any spirit that denies Christ is the anti-christ. There are theories that the antichrist mentioned in Revelation was actually Nero, who seriously persecuted Christians. See for Christians, we've been living in the end times since Jesus rose.
But yeah! For a fictional suggestion... It's a really big thing that Satan is a liar. It's so much a part of what he is that Jesus said it's his native language. So the demons' monsters are monsters that are lying about being monsters. The other ones are honest about it, at least. But it's gonna be hard to explain why an angel following God would want to make a monster lol. Hope that helps!
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First a biblical answer and then a fictional suggestion. Use which one you like!
I think the consensus of biblical scholars is that the passage about nephilim is super weird and hard to be sure about. But it seems pretty clear that it's referring to fallen angels doing stuff. As for the antichrist, in other verses (Matt 24:24, stuff in 1st and 2nd John, etc) basically any spirit that denies Christ is the anti-christ. There are theories that the antichrist mentioned in Revelation was actually Nero, who seriously persecuted Christians. See for Christians, we've been living in the end times since Jesus rose.
But yeah! For a fictional suggestion... It's a really big thing that Satan is a liar. It's so much a part of what he is that Jesus said it's his native language. So the demons' monsters are monsters that are lying about being monsters. The other ones are honest about it, at least. But it's gonna be hard to explain why an angel following God would want to make a monster lol. Hope that helps!
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First a biblical answer and then a fictional suggestion. Use which one you like!
I think the consensus of biblical scholars is that the passage about nephilim is super weird and hard to be sure about. But it seems pretty clear that it's referring to fallen angels doing stuff. As for the antichrist, in other verses (Matt 24:24, stuff in 1st and 2nd John, etc) basically any spirit that denies Christ is the anti-christ. There are theories that the antichrist mentioned in Revelation was actually Nero, who seriously persecuted Christians. See for Christians, we've been living in the end times since Jesus rose.
But yeah! For a fictional suggestion... It's a really big thing that Satan is a liar. It's so much a part of what he is that Jesus said it's his native language. So the demons' monsters are monsters that are lying about being monsters. The other ones are honest about it, at least. But it's gonna be hard to explain why an angel following God would want to make a monster lol. Hope that helps!
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Hell is a pretty toxic environment. Being there over a long period of time has mutated the demons, causing them to look different from angels and passing on changes to their offspring.
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Hell is a pretty toxic environment. Being there over a long period of time has mutated the demons, causing them to look different from angels and passing on changes to their offspring.
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Hell is a pretty toxic environment. Being there over a long period of time has mutated the demons, causing them to look different from angels and passing on changes to their offspring.
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Hell is a pretty toxic environment. Being there over a long period of time has mutated the demons, causing them to look different from angels and passing on changes to their offspring.
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Angels still bear the blessing of good, while human and demons not.
When angels and humans breed, the interaction of a non blessed with a blessed cell messes up the appearance of the result being, while the pairs blessed-blessed or non blessed-non blessed give no issues under this point of view.
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Angels still bear the blessing of good, while human and demons not.
When angels and humans breed, the interaction of a non blessed with a blessed cell messes up the appearance of the result being, while the pairs blessed-blessed or non blessed-non blessed give no issues under this point of view.
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Angels still bear the blessing of good, while human and demons not.
When angels and humans breed, the interaction of a non blessed with a blessed cell messes up the appearance of the result being, while the pairs blessed-blessed or non blessed-non blessed give no issues under this point of view.
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Angels still bear the blessing of good, while human and demons not.
When angels and humans breed, the interaction of a non blessed with a blessed cell messes up the appearance of the result being, while the pairs blessed-blessed or non blessed-non blessed give no issues under this point of view.
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Here are two creature of the same species:


If you and most of your kin looked like the first picture, you would probably consider the second picture--10 times larger, with an un-naturally slim face, threatening ears, loose jowls, and weirdly short and dark hair--to be a monster.
Very similar underlying genetics can cover for quite significant variance in phenotype.
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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– Jasper
2 hours ago
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Here are two creature of the same species:


If you and most of your kin looked like the first picture, you would probably consider the second picture--10 times larger, with an un-naturally slim face, threatening ears, loose jowls, and weirdly short and dark hair--to be a monster.
Very similar underlying genetics can cover for quite significant variance in phenotype.
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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– Jasper
2 hours ago
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Here are two creature of the same species:


If you and most of your kin looked like the first picture, you would probably consider the second picture--10 times larger, with an un-naturally slim face, threatening ears, loose jowls, and weirdly short and dark hair--to be a monster.
Very similar underlying genetics can cover for quite significant variance in phenotype.
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Here are two creature of the same species:


If you and most of your kin looked like the first picture, you would probably consider the second picture--10 times larger, with an un-naturally slim face, threatening ears, loose jowls, and weirdly short and dark hair--to be a monster.
Very similar underlying genetics can cover for quite significant variance in phenotype.
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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– Jasper
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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– Jasper
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Did you mean "cause", "generate", or "account for" instead of "cover for"?
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First we are to assume that Angels and Devils can be classifiable by species.
Second that they are the same taxonomic species.
Third that humans are of a different species?
Clearly then the answer is that it is something external to their taxonomic definition that allows interbreeding, as (going by our definition of species) neither could successfully breed with humans.
If it is an internal, integral and automatic capacity, neither Angels nor Devils can be classified as part of a species at all because they can breed with things other than themselves, so to speak.
In summary: However it occurs, to define Angels and Devils by specie must necessarily be flawed.
It follows anyway, that whatever agent it is that makes their breeding with humans possible is altered either as integral to their displacement(from Heaven or to Hell) or as a separate function imparted to their nature, rather than that of the agent. In real world terms it's theoretically feasible to create an egg or sperm that 'pulls apart' it's counterpart and reconstitutes it in a form viable for reproduction making ad hoc inter-species breeding possible.
If we consider that what makes Angels Angels must be 'impartable' only from the Divine, otherwise the Devil would simply make himself and his Devils undevilly, it would perhaps stand to reason that an Angel cannot simply make more Angels via mating, as it is not up to them to make more divinities, but the Divine. It might follow then that it is relatively easy to make more evil, but not so easy to make more good, so to speak. Heaven has an immigration policy to uphold after all, and free passes would make a mockery of that.
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First we are to assume that Angels and Devils can be classifiable by species.
Second that they are the same taxonomic species.
Third that humans are of a different species?
Clearly then the answer is that it is something external to their taxonomic definition that allows interbreeding, as (going by our definition of species) neither could successfully breed with humans.
If it is an internal, integral and automatic capacity, neither Angels nor Devils can be classified as part of a species at all because they can breed with things other than themselves, so to speak.
In summary: However it occurs, to define Angels and Devils by specie must necessarily be flawed.
It follows anyway, that whatever agent it is that makes their breeding with humans possible is altered either as integral to their displacement(from Heaven or to Hell) or as a separate function imparted to their nature, rather than that of the agent. In real world terms it's theoretically feasible to create an egg or sperm that 'pulls apart' it's counterpart and reconstitutes it in a form viable for reproduction making ad hoc inter-species breeding possible.
If we consider that what makes Angels Angels must be 'impartable' only from the Divine, otherwise the Devil would simply make himself and his Devils undevilly, it would perhaps stand to reason that an Angel cannot simply make more Angels via mating, as it is not up to them to make more divinities, but the Divine. It might follow then that it is relatively easy to make more evil, but not so easy to make more good, so to speak. Heaven has an immigration policy to uphold after all, and free passes would make a mockery of that.
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add a comment |
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First we are to assume that Angels and Devils can be classifiable by species.
Second that they are the same taxonomic species.
Third that humans are of a different species?
Clearly then the answer is that it is something external to their taxonomic definition that allows interbreeding, as (going by our definition of species) neither could successfully breed with humans.
If it is an internal, integral and automatic capacity, neither Angels nor Devils can be classified as part of a species at all because they can breed with things other than themselves, so to speak.
In summary: However it occurs, to define Angels and Devils by specie must necessarily be flawed.
It follows anyway, that whatever agent it is that makes their breeding with humans possible is altered either as integral to their displacement(from Heaven or to Hell) or as a separate function imparted to their nature, rather than that of the agent. In real world terms it's theoretically feasible to create an egg or sperm that 'pulls apart' it's counterpart and reconstitutes it in a form viable for reproduction making ad hoc inter-species breeding possible.
If we consider that what makes Angels Angels must be 'impartable' only from the Divine, otherwise the Devil would simply make himself and his Devils undevilly, it would perhaps stand to reason that an Angel cannot simply make more Angels via mating, as it is not up to them to make more divinities, but the Divine. It might follow then that it is relatively easy to make more evil, but not so easy to make more good, so to speak. Heaven has an immigration policy to uphold after all, and free passes would make a mockery of that.
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First we are to assume that Angels and Devils can be classifiable by species.
Second that they are the same taxonomic species.
Third that humans are of a different species?
Clearly then the answer is that it is something external to their taxonomic definition that allows interbreeding, as (going by our definition of species) neither could successfully breed with humans.
If it is an internal, integral and automatic capacity, neither Angels nor Devils can be classified as part of a species at all because they can breed with things other than themselves, so to speak.
In summary: However it occurs, to define Angels and Devils by specie must necessarily be flawed.
It follows anyway, that whatever agent it is that makes their breeding with humans possible is altered either as integral to their displacement(from Heaven or to Hell) or as a separate function imparted to their nature, rather than that of the agent. In real world terms it's theoretically feasible to create an egg or sperm that 'pulls apart' it's counterpart and reconstitutes it in a form viable for reproduction making ad hoc inter-species breeding possible.
If we consider that what makes Angels Angels must be 'impartable' only from the Divine, otherwise the Devil would simply make himself and his Devils undevilly, it would perhaps stand to reason that an Angel cannot simply make more Angels via mating, as it is not up to them to make more divinities, but the Divine. It might follow then that it is relatively easy to make more evil, but not so easy to make more good, so to speak. Heaven has an immigration policy to uphold after all, and free passes would make a mockery of that.
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jusr because devils and angels are the same species does not mean they are the same species as humans. plus species is not the greatest qualifiers, a chihuahua and a great dane are the same species.
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– John
8 hours ago
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I thought cambions were something different. They don't appear in the Bible or the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Are you wanting to stick purely to the Bible or are you putting forward your own mythology?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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P.S. Is it known if Satan was banished before the Nephilim were on the Earth?
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– chasly from UK
8 hours ago
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Since you are world building, please specify some more details? Are you sticking with realistic history, or are you allowing mythology as well? Are you limiting the scope to the Judeo-Christian angle, or are you including more views? For example, some of the modern day stories about angels and demons were originally pagan teachings that were later incorporated into Judeo-christian myths by various historical individuals, and propagated alongside more historical sources.
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– nijineko
5 hours ago
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what happens when an angel procreates with a devil?
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– NofP
2 hours ago