Posted on 12/24/2004 7:56:08 AM PST by BenLurkin
At first a silly and far out question. However after reading 3 books on the origins of Giants I have to repeat the question…were they? There is much evidence of giants throughout history but the problem I’m finding is that most all historians, scholars, authors and theologians over the last 2400 years believe that giants were all the product of evil angels mating with human women which is what they say the Bible means by the Hebrew word Nephilim, used in Genesis 6. This has turned the idea of giants into the material for fairy tales. Another, slightly more credible theory says that a closer lunar orbit with a smaller moon, had a greater pull thus enlarging animals and man. Still a third believes that there have always been a few giants and a few dwarves on the outer edge of the normal height of any society. Genesis states that there were even societies of giants (see Numbers 13) that lived before and after the flood. So where did they come from?
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Hey . . . I walked a block for that Starbucks you just made me spew!
Here is one for ya. After Cain slew Able God marked him so that all would know he was a killer. Where did they come from and who was those people?
The chicken . . no wait . . .the egg!
I won't believe it until I see it in the World Weekly News.
Actualy I don't think so. Could be an interaction between evolved man and improved man. Remember reading something about trogladites(sp) and modern man coexisting. Seems one species excelerated in evolving while the other remained the same.
Hello FRiend! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Thank you for the nod!
You too BenLurkin!
I believe this is the origin of the Giants mentioned in the Bible.
Genesis Chapter 6
1 When men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.
3 Then the LORD said, "My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for he is flesh, but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."
4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
LOL First thing Adam said to Eve was "Stand back baby, I'm not sure how big this is gonna get!" Merry Christmas!
:') There are references to giants in the OT; in the account of the Conquest, an iron bedstead that had belonged to some notorious legendary giant; and more famously, the giants who were remnants of a larger population, and lived among the enemies of the Israelites.
Deut 3:11 -- For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
other pages:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/an/Anak.html
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=215&letter=G
http://www.stevequayle.com/Giants/Mid.East/Giants.Mid.East14.html
Also, from my online buddy:
The Xenophile Historian
The Genesis Chronicles: A Proposed History Of The Morning Of The World
http://xenohistorian.faithweb.com/genesis/gen09.html
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