The Bible contains not one but two fall stories, and this is the second. Genesis 3 locates the origin of evil inside humanity — a moral act of disobedience. Genesis 6 tells a completely different story. The “sons of God” — supernatural beings — cross the boundary between heaven and earth, take human women as wives, and produce the Nephilim, a race of giants whose violence consumes the world. Evil does not arise from within humanity but descends from above. The two accounts sit side by side in the canon without reconciliation: the Hebrew tradition did not collapse them into a single answer. The flood that follows is God’s response to this second, cosmic fall.