Noah's Wife

“What about Noah’s wife? Could she have been indirectly related to a Nephilim ancestor? If so, the mutated genes in her genetic makeup must have reappeared in the generations descended from her. Since the nations that were described as giants could be traced back to the descendants of Noah, and since it can’t have been Noah himself, then surely it must have been Noah’s wife who introduced the “Nephilim genes” (for lack of better terminology) back into the human genome.
The idea is supported by a flawed understanding of the text of Genesis 6, following the idea that when the Bible says, “all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth,” it must by necessity mean that everyone was genetically corrupted except for Noah himself. As mentioned earlier in our discussion of the “Sethite interpretation,” there are people out there who are happy to say “all means all” when we are talking about Noah’s family being genetically impure like the rest of the world, but somehow “all” never includes Noah. So, if “all” has one exception, why not eight exceptions? But let’s bear it out anyway.
Let’s take a moment to consider the implications of this theory since it appears to be the prevailing school of thought on this issue today. It seems everyone wants to chime in on this topic and be the one who can explain the return of the Nephilim, but not everyone wants to acknowledge the outworking of his or her hypotheses.
Suppose that Noah’s wife was somehow related by blood to the Nephilim. We don’t know how closely related she may have been. But regardless of the biological connection, we can understand that all offspring that she carried would have either exhibited or carried the corrupted genes. Therefore, all of her sons would have passed on that tainted bloodline into their descendants. It follows then, that every person ever born since the “days of Noah” would be genetically impure, and that includes you and me.
If you and I, and everyone else since the Flood, have received corrupt DNA, then we are by nature part man and part giant. Is that the way that God created us? No! Let us be abundantly clear on this: if we are no longer 100% human, then we are definitely 100% unsaved.
It was the sin of Adam that condemned humanity before God, and the only way to settle the debt of that sin was for God Himself to become a man and to die as an innocent man in our place. However, this works only because of the equality in the equation; that Adam was the same in his humanity as Christ was in His. Where we run into problems is that by taking the view that Noah’s wife introduced the corrupted Nephilim bloodline to the post-Flood world, we sever that connection between Adam and Christ. The equation is no longer balanced because humanity is no longer made in the image of God like Adam was. This was the reason that Noah “found grace in the eyes of Yahweh.”
The reason it is called grace that was given to Noah is that he was not sinless. Genesis 9 affirms that fact. It was grace given to him that allowed him to be saved when “all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.” But Noah specifically received that grace for certain reasons. Noah was “perfect in his generation.” The Hebrew word here translated as “perfect” is tamiym, which is the same word used to describe a sacrificial animal as “without spot or blemish.” In other words, Noah was a perfect specimen of a man in the physical sense. It follows that his choice of wife did not disqualify him from the responsibility of preserving humanity, or else God should have chosen a different couple to save the species. There was nothing wrong with Noah’s wife.
Some will refine their “Noah’s Wife” argument by saying that the corruption of the genome must have been selective and corrupted only certain bloodlines from Noah’s family. This conveniently preserves the line of Christ from corruption in theory because His descent can be traced back not to Ham but Shem. However, all along the genealogies, we find instances where non-Semitic people appear in the line of descent. The obvious fact that there has always been intermarriage between the different people groups negates the idea that any particular group might have been spared from the influence of tainted DNA. Therefore, if we are going to take the view that there was any Nephilim blood passed down through Noah’s wife, we must accept that all humanity since then has become corrupt. That means that Jesus Christ (not to mention the rest of us) could not be 100% human.
Sin entered the world through Adam, as Moses (Genesis 3:17) and the apostle Paul (Romans 5:18-19) make clear. Christ’s death was to pay the exact price of that sin in order to forgive us all in accordance with the perfect justice of God. The idea that Christ’s death was a price somehow unequal to the debt owed by Adam means that the price was never paid in full. By extension, the justice of God has not been satisfied. Therefore, the death of Christ atoned for nothing, and we are all dead in our sins. We have inherited the sinful nature from Adam (Romans 5:12) but received no comfort from the sufferings of Christ. This heretical idea has no place in our faith and should occupy no space in our minds. Yet it is perhaps unwittingly promoted by many in these days who claim to have the answer to the return of the Nephilim.”
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- Excerpt from “Answers to Giant Questions,” by T.J. Steadman.