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The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:4 ESV)

I don’t believe that what is referred to here in this verse about the Nephilim is that fallen angels were having intercourse with human women and that their offspring became the “Nehpilim” or giants.  The text clearly states that the nephilim were already in the earth and continued to be even after the sons of God “came into” the daughters of man.  I think that what happened here is that the sons of the Godly line of Seth were having sexual relations with the daughters of the line of Cain.  The nephilim were not supernatural beings they were just giants.  The word Nephil is used only twice in Scripture and it occurs here and in Numbers 13:33:

So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:32-33 ESV)

This intermarriage of the sons of God and the daughters of men was the first refference in the Bible to what was later to be a major prohibition for the people of God. 

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves, and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. (Deuteronomy 7:1-4 ESV)

When look at the history of Israel, one of the main reasons that the men of Israel left the worship of Jehovah and began worshpping foreign gods was that they intermarried with the women of the lands that they conquered and then were led by them into idolatry.  Ever since the fall and the curse that was placed on Eve, there has been this effort for the wife to exert powerful influence on the man. 

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16 ESV)

Even today, there is a restriction put on those that Christians may marry.  This restriction, like all of God’s statures and prohibitions, is meant to protect the children of God from needless heartache and temptations to fall away from the true and living God.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV)

This restriction is the same restriction that was given to the Israelites.  Christians are not to enter into partnerships or marriages with unbelievers.  Unbelievers do not share the same values, vision, or god and therefore there cannot be a union with the Temple of God and Baal.

So the question is, whose child are you?  Have you repented of your sins and put your faith and trust in Christ alone for your salvation?  Are you a child of man or a child of God?