QUES. 10.-Please tell us in Help and Food who are "the sons of God" in Gen. 6:2 and Job 1:6. In Luke 3:38 it says of Adam, "Which was the son of God."

ANS.-The passages in Job 1:6 and 2:1 manifestly present heavenly scenes, as also in 1 Kings 22:19-22; therefore "the sons of God" spoken of there are angels. Likewise we read in Job 38:4, 7 that when God "laid the foundations of the earth… .the morning stars (the chief luminaries of the heavenly hosts) and the sons of God (the angels) shouted for joy." And this of course was long ages before the creation of man.

But to apply Gen. 6:1, 2 to angels, would bring insuperable difficulties. In Matt. 22:30 our Lord says that the angels "neither marry nor are given in marriage." It seems therefore that "the sons of God" in Gen. 6:2 are the descendants of Seth, and "the daughters of men" those of Cain. The descendants of Seth (of whom Enoch was one, and who walked with God, and "was translated that he should not see death ") seem to have kept allegiance with God and apart from the Cainites for
a long time. When that broke down, and the testimony for God was gone, the flood was announced (Gen. 6:5-7). God's testimony against these unholy alliances has been clear and strong in all dispensations. See Jehovah's injunction to Israel in Deut., ch. 7; and to the Christian in 2 Cor. 6:14-18.

As to Luke 3:38 (the genealogy ascending from Jesus to God), it seems to speak of God's fellowship and joy in man, restored in and through Jesus, which had been lost by the natural man's iniquity and departure from God.

QUES. 11.-I have a dear Christian friend who advocates faith healing, giving Jas. 5:14,15 as his ground for it. Will you give us a word as to this?

ANS.-If your friend prefers to cast himself on God in sickness rather than use any medicine, hinder him not. I have known godly and intelligent Christians do the same. Others equally godly and intelligent, use remedies as God's provision and thank Him for them. Let not one judge or despise the other in this. (See Rom. 14:2-4,10-13.)

As to Jas. 5:14,15, however, your friend would find it difficult, if not impossible now, to carry it out literally. Where are the God-recognized elders to be called by the sick person? And the church-in what fragments it is broken up! But see:-James addresses "the twelve tribes" (ch. 1:1) among whom the elders were well known and authoritative; and washings and anointings were in constant practice. (See Levit., chs. 8 and 15). They belonged to a system of types of which the Law was full, but which has now passed away.

That a Christian in sickness should call for godly brethren, set his case before them, confess his sins or errors if conscious of any, that they may thus together pray for the sick, we surely believe will meet God's approval and answer.