Could I Have Nephilim DNA?

Q

Thank you so much for your dedication to allowing God to use you to help so many others. This site has been a daily blessing to me for many months, and now to my family because of the insights I have gained from using your site as a study tool. I have searched your site for weeks looking for this , and as so many others already have, I apologize if I am asking an already-answered question.

My question is to resolve a debate between myself and another Bible studier. Could any of us be unknowingly walking around with Nephilim DNA and not know it? I don’t think so, but my friend disagrees…she is actually convinced that physically attractive, tall, well-built, intelligent people could be descendants of Nephilim. She has even suggested that my soon-to-be husband and myself are probably descended from Nephilim! Needless to say, this really freaks me out! I don’t want to worry that I have Nephilim DNA, or that my future husband may (we are both tall and athletically built and he is a handsome and mechanically brilliant man). Please, any insight at all would be tremendously helpful. I love my Jesus with all my heart and can’t bear the thought of being separated from God in eternity due to genetic circumstances beyond my control.

A

There is no Biblical basis for your friend’s opinion. In the first place, her description of possible nephilim could apply to a large percentage of the population. In the 2nd place no Nephilim could express such a love for the Lord as you have. And most importantly, how could God place in your heart the desire to become one of His and then disqualify you on a technicality you couldn’t help or even know of. It would be a violation of Matt. 7:7-8 “Everyone who asks receives, etc.”, Romans 10:13 “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved”, John 3:16, and about a dozen other promises I can think of.