Walk in the Bible - Genesis 6
Genesis - Chapter 6 Chapter 6 starts by focusing on the general population at the time, then it zooms in to Noah. The first thing that it tells us is that as the population increased, the judges of the land, those that were supposed to keep law and order were actually subverting it by taking any woman as their own, whether they were married or not didn't matter to them. Now, some of the rabbinical scholars argue that verse 2 refers to the judges as angels, others point out the word used to designate them ,"Elohim", is used for both THE LORD and Lord (not a divine being). Rabineu Bachya, for example argues as much in his commentary on Genesis 6, as does Rabineu Chananel. Radak does this as well, with the same explanation. It's also understood that angels don't have physical forms and humans do, so it would have been impossible for any angel to mate with a human. Only God and the Holy Spirit (as Luke states, later on in the Bible) can do that. ...