Posted on 02/27/2022 11:27:27 AM PST by jonno
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Yep, good point. The bottom line is that God is supreme, we are fleshly trash and salvation through Jesus is the only way to be redeemed, have faith and know God. Everything else is a distraction.
Hard to correlate your explanation with what Strong’s Concordance says.
Word: elattow
Pronounce: el-at-to’-o
Strongs Number: G1642
Orig: from 1640; to lessen (in rank or influence):—decrease, make lower. G1640
Use: Verb
Heb Strong: H2637 H4591 H6819
1) to make less or inferior: in dignity
2) to be made less or inferior: in dignity
3) to decrease in authority or popularity
https://studybible.info/strongs/G1642
You also notice that Jesus was shorter than Adam. Less perfect than Adam? Inferior? In Dignity?
Research “The Book of Enoch.”
It was supposedly written by Noah’s grandfather, and details why the Nephilim led to to the great food.
Jesus was perfect. But we are talking about size physicality and you knew that. Also note:
1.He lived the life of a refugee in his youth.
2. The child of poor, working-class parents in a generally impoverished land.
3. A lowly carpenter, who prior to His ministry years, must have worked long and hard, suffering the cuts, bruises, pains and splinters associated with this trade—all the while abstaining from use of miraculous powers that would have made His work so easy
4. Took the form of a lowly, generic, plain Jew—No one ever reported that Jesus was amazingly handsome, tall, beautiful eyes or had a great physique. He could have taken the form of a handsome prince, as befits His identity, yet again He chose total humility.
5. He had every right to come in a blaze of Glory with a band of angels accompanying Him heralding His arrival. He came as a humble and meek person so people could relate to Him and be drawn to Him because of His message, not His wealth, power or physical size.
There is a foot print in South Africa (If memory serves) which had to have been made by a being at least thirty feet tall if appendages are proportional. The stone with the print is showing the printvertical to the surface of the planet. If genuine it has been tossed around by earthquakes and or flood.
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
The height of the cedars? Wow, there must have been some tall dudes out there. My feeling is, some Nephilim were taller than others.
We read the Scriptures differently.
I don’t have a denomination dictating how to read them. That may be the difference.
Me either.
https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/cedar-trees
Absolutely correct. Humans have de evolved in stature and longevity since after Eden and the flood. 800+ (up to 969) years was a typical lifespan in a near perfect earthly pre-flood environment. And, there is every reason to suggest that there was correlation in their statures.
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