By comparison, Robert Wadlow of Illinois was 8'11".
Posted on 03/23/2022 9:33:45 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
A ‘giant’ in Biblical times could have been someone 6 feet tall...............
Your point?
My first thoughts.
Jerusalem Post lives tourism.
And socialism.
But they were closer to nine feet tall, not six.
Feet were smaller then..................
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).”
There’s a reason Enoch is considered ‘apocryphal’...............
Native American evidence in North America ???
I always wondered how the Nephilim survived the flood.
By comparison, Robert Wadlow of Illinois was 8'11".
“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. :)
“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.
Yet the book of Jude cites its prophecy as authoritative. I’ve always wondered about that.
Riiiight...
Many apocryphal texts were widely read and published in the early church. Enoch was as old as the rest of the scriptures in the Old Testament, but even it was excluded by Jews from its canon.............
Goliath was a “cubit and a span” putting him about 9 feet 6 minutes tall or so
“The Nephilim were the offspring of heavenly beings who were placed in the spiritual realm to watch over the earth in those days.”
Oh, that’s gonna trigger the “you can’t read that literally!” crowd.
Except the Bible actually gives us the height of some of them, and they were much more than 6 feet tall.
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