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To: Roman_War_Criminal

A ‘giant’ in Biblical times could have been someone 6 feet tall...............


2 posted on 03/23/2022 9:35:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Your point?


3 posted on 03/23/2022 9:37:46 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Red Badger

My first thoughts.


4 posted on 03/23/2022 9:40:18 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Red Badger

But they were closer to nine feet tall, not six.


6 posted on 03/23/2022 9:41:47 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Red Badger

From wiki:

“In 1 Enoch, they were “great giants, whose height was three hundred cubits.” A Cubit being 18 inches (45 centimetres), this would make them 450 ft tall (137.16 metres).”


8 posted on 03/23/2022 9:43:27 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Red Badger

“A ‘giant’ in Biblical times could have been someone 6 feet tall...............”

Com’on man. I saw The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur and even saw David & Bathsheba. All the men were near or over 6 feet tall. :)


13 posted on 03/23/2022 9:48:31 AM PDT by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: Red Badger

“A ‘giant’ in Biblical times could have been someone 6 feet tall.....”

Yep. People can read into passages like that all sorts of things.

Regarding “The Nephilim were the offspring of heavenly beings who were placed in the spiritual realm to watch over the earth in those days. They were principalities in the heavenly realm”

That sounds like spiritual entities but we really don’t know what they are. Jesus did not elaborate.


14 posted on 03/23/2022 9:48:43 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Red Badger

Goliath was a “cubit and a span” putting him about 9 feet 6 minutes tall or so


18 posted on 03/23/2022 9:56:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Except the Bible actually gives us the height of some of them, and they were much more than 6 feet tall.


20 posted on 03/23/2022 9:57:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

I don’t know about that. There have been findings throughout the world of skeletons that are 8-12 feet in height. I have not heard of anything higher than that though. There were giant remains found on Catalina Island about 100 years ago by Ralph Glidden.


45 posted on 03/23/2022 10:36:26 AM PDT by DMD13
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To: Red Badger

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC has several Greek helmets from the time of the Iliad on display, and from the look of them, Achilles must have been smaller than a modern seventh grader.


60 posted on 03/23/2022 11:18:06 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: Red Badger

“A ‘giant’ in Biblical times could have been someone 6 feet tall...............”

If you read the second to last article, they describe a giant name Og bed.

“The Biblical measurement of an amah, literally the length of a forearm, is 9.2 inches, which would mean that Og’s bed was over 14 feet long and over six feet wide.”

Very big bed.

I remember reading where they found remains of Giants in China.


73 posted on 03/23/2022 11:46:23 AM PDT by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: Red Badger
“The Bible describes the Nephilim in several places,” Landa said. “The main commentary of the Nephilim happens in Genesis chapter six. Most people cruise right over that passage. The Nephilim were the offspring of heavenly beings who were placed in the spiritual realm to watch over the earth in those days. They were principalities in the heavenly realm.”

Sorry that his QUOTES here will tend to make some folks think what he said was in the Bible.

It ain't.


 
 

Genesis 6:1-8

When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them. But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.


It does NOT say the GIANTs  mated with the Humans; it merely says they were on the earth.

???

So; just WHO are the sons of God and the daughters of humans???

 

The BOOK says: Let Us create Man in Our image.   So there you get some 'sons of God'; right??

The BOOK also says, in Genesis 5:3-4

 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

 

These things happened BEFORE Genesis chapter 6....

 

 


103 posted on 03/24/2022 4:59:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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