Is anyone interested in telling me what your opinion is on the giants the bible speaks of in Genesis?
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They were giant evil half breeds. The angels (I believe fallen) bred with human women creating a wicked evil super being. This is the reason God flooded the Earth. Read the Book of Enoch and you will learn more detail of them. They are called Nephilum. The Book of Enoch was discovered in Ethiopia in 1773 and then again in the Quram cave #4 (Dead Sea Scrolls). Enoch was Cains son and wrote the prophecies of the flood and the parting of the Red Sea.
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i'm pretty sure you know the Christian view... this is something i've been thinking about a good bit lately - Genesis talks about 'when a man leaves his parents and basically takes a wife... they live together and become one.. sorry - paraphrasing i dont like... i'll add more as i research\nI'm curious more because of the jewish prophecy concerning the messiah; of a virgin, yet of the line of David. \n& my head hurts.
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There aren't any dinosaurs in the bible. They just look back at comments about dragons and say 'See dinosaurs! We knew it all along.'. Um, no. \nBy the way, there are unicorns in the bible:\n\nNum 23:22 God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn. \n\nWell, now we all know that unicorns exist. Thank you informative and fact filled bible.
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the bible does not mention what we know as "cavemen" per se so there is not any conflict that I can see. Adam and Eve may have been simple characters in an allegory to illustrate a point or they may have existed, but who is to know what they looked like? Maybe they looked like what we call cavemen? If God made them in his own image than perhaps he looked like cavemen. we have no way of knowing since there were no accurate artists or cameras yet. The bible leaves out any description of adam and eve so we are left to imagine. So, being the egotistical beings we are, we imagine they looked like "us", (whatever the particular "us" looks like.) Blacks imagine they were black and jews imagine they were jewish looking.  (after all, they did make up the story and should be the stars) Caucasians usually depict Adam as some sort of white boy. the spansih prefer latino looking adam and eve.\nall we really know, if we are to believe the bible, is that they were made in the image of God. yet God is unknown and unknowable so we really know nothing except he is a burning bush or a bright light. How are we in that image? You tell me. I do not believe any of it as it is unbelievable to a thinking person. the story of man's creation as told by the so-called Gnostic religion seems to be more believable. At least it makes sense. But that does not address the question asked. \nCavemen or should I say "cave persons" are probably no longer extant (so far as we know) and we may actually be something else unrelated. There is still that old missing link problem that everybody conveniently forgets to mention. there is no clear connection in time to us and the thing we call a Caveman. \nFor all we know for sure, it may have been the forebearer of the yeti (abominable snowman) and not us. \n\nthe reason the bible must be accepted on "faith" is because it is full of conjecture and fairy tales and there is no evidence to show it is fact. Faith is just another way to say "unthinking".
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Yes.  The Bible is an amazing book.  Those who are wise will read it and try to understand it.  The fool simply sits back and says "it all a myth"...
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I agree, but apparently most people have never read any of these texts that your talking about.  When you bring it up they will answer with "all cultures had similar stories".  I don't understand if they ever read the stories and saw that they are from what they call Pagan religions with multiply gods and how the same story is written in Genesis and is uncannily similar from the story plot, the sequence of events and even the language how they could deny that the bible was taken from them and changed to one god.\n\nScience has clearly dated these documents and the bible and the other texts are clearly more ancient by many centuries.  But apparently they are afraid that if they read them their belief system will be shattered and that thought may be unbearable to most people.
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Biblical scholars contend that Genesis was written by several authors over many, many years. They also feel that most of Genesis is based on other stories that are much older and existed as oral tales for a long time. \n\nWithin the Bible, the texts saying that the Bible is inspired by God refer to the Laws and the Prophets, not the histories, lists, or geneologies.\n\nI believe it is full of stories that reveal various lessons and aspects of God- neither really allegory nor fact.
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This is an interesting subject. First of all I do belive in God&Creationalism, but however Im not very religous.Before God created Adam and Eve there must have been life on Earth.\nPerhaps God chose the Earth to put Man on because it was a very viable place to live. In Genisis chapter one it is written "In the begining God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was VOID and WHITHOUT form" "Then the Spirit of the Lord moved apon the face of the deep... Its hard to say really, but in my opinion this is similar to the way science sugests that it all began, on a barren rocky world filled with an endless sea with which life could proliferate. There is evidence on the surface of the Earth that sugests that massive impacts from space have occured. Perhaps before the time of Man, the Earth was filled with Dinosaurs and 'quote' other prehistoric life and it was a great place for LIFE. Then one day for a reason known only to God, he chose to destroy the Earth with an asteroid so massive that it compleatly decimated everything, and left the planet, dark, void, and without proper form. The neanderthal men, in my opinion are evidence of somthing else mentioned in the Bible. In Genisis chapter six it says "the sons of God saw the beatiful women of the human race, and took any they wanted as there wives...in those days and even after GIANTS lived on the Earth" .The sons of God probly refers to angelic beings. Neanderthals were supposed to be much larger, and more robust then regular  humans of today. I think I have seen a few shows on the Discovery channle about human evolution, and acording to science, neanderthals, and humans most likely lived side by side. Then for reasons unknown, there was only MAN left as if the neanderthal died out. What about the great Mammoths, Sloths, Sabertoothed Cats, among other animals? I think that they, and the neanderthals were not included on NOAHS ARK. There is so much information to think about! Even so, there is still a lot of mystery. I do know one thing, all the PERFECT laws of the universe, from GRAVITY to MAGNATISIM, to PHYSICS just prove that that the universe was created intelligently, and beatifully might I ad. Sorry to type so much I have wandered about these issues too. Please remember that I was just speaking hypotheticaly on the what ifs. Hope I helped a little.
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The Bible does say that the sons of God took wives among the daughters of men and their offspring were giants and heros. The sons of God are the fallen angels. It wouldn't be a human/god hybrid but rather a human/demon hybrid. However, this was one reason that God brought the great flood. All the hybrids were killed in the flood.\n\nAs for human/beast hybrids in popular mythology I believe that those particular stories are metaphorical rather than literal. That is a person may be as ferocious as a tiger or strong as a bear but not actually part tiger or part bear.
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The Noah story is impossible.  It would not be possible for someone to build a boat that big, or to get two of every animal on earth, or to fit them on said boat.\n\nIf people would consider the story with their brains instead of their emotions, they would realize just how ridiculously false the story is.\n\nTo put this in simple terms for the cretins... How do you figure Noah rounded up two polar bears, two penguins, two kangaroos, two horses, etc...  Was he the first (and last) man to sail to every continent in the world collecting animals?  Amazing that no one else managed this feat until thousands of years later.\n\nEdit - also, it's an old pagan fairy tale called the Epic of Gilgamesh, anyway.  The Christians just inserted it into their bible.  This stuff is so easy to understand, people...
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Dinosaurs were here before Adam and Eve. The bible didn't focus on the creation of the earth. Genesis focused mainly on the creation, rise, and fall of man.
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Does mainworry ever post comments himself, or does he just copy and paste all the time?\n\nGenesis is the intro to the bible.  It is full of ambiguous stories aimed at giving a meager beginning to mankind.  It has preposterous stories like building an ark.  If such an ark were built, It would have been a half a mile long.  On top of that, it would have been built out of wood.  And then... here's the best part.  If the world were flooded, then the ocean waves would be so insanely huge, that no boat, not even today's American Navy, would have been able to stay afloat!!!  Common sense dictates that you take these stories with a grain of salt.  With no land masses to quell the ocean waves, they would be huge!
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Any of the Hebrews men who conquered Canaan, because they got to rape any women they could grab in the cities they conquered... having murdered their fathers and brothers in front of them of course.\n\nNo, I take that back, my favourite is Elisha, because he got cool super powers and could sumon up bears to eat young boys because they called him baldy. It would b so cool to see young boys being eaten alive by a bear, don't ya think, especially for such a frivolus reason?\n\n\nNo, I changed my mind again. It's defintitely the Angel of the Lord. He gets really cool super powers all the time, and he gets to sluaghter everyone in cold blood: old men, women,  babies.\n\n"And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee."\n\n\nThen he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, “Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead!”  When he looked behind him and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. Then two female bears came out of the woods and tore up forty-two lads of their number.  And he went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.\n\n"And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city."
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I don't know about in genesis, but I've always found ecclesiastes 3:19-21 interesting.\n\n"Man's fate is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath (or spirit); man has no advantage over the animal. Everything is meaningless. All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?"\n\njust some food for thought.
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Well the bible talks about Noah too--a story plagarized from the babylonian epic of Gilgamesh.  There was never enough water for a great flood, to load all the species on earth--Noah would have had to load 5 a second for 30 years.  Not enough genetic diversity, not enough water.  Point is--the story is untrue--they are fables designed for primitive people. It is not a book of science--much of it is allegorical---soo with an allegorical thought--Adam and Eve leaving the garden of eden could well be an allegorical representation of a hominid species becoming self aware.
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Something I found interesting while studying Genesis. I did a Beth Moore "Patriarchs"  And I liked it but then I got J. Vernon Mcgee Commentary series and he really expands on the Bible.  Check it out it is really good, anyway on the chapter he did on God's creation of Man he states that "It is quite interesting that our bodies are made up of about  16 chemical elements. Those same chemical elements are found in the ground. The physical part of man was taken out of the dust of the ground. If we were to be boiled down  (gross huh)into the separate chemical elements of which we are made, we would be worth very little in terms of money. I used to say $2.98, but inflationhas increased that figure a little. That is the extent of our bodily worth because we were made out of dust from the ground. But man is more than dust. Physically, dust he is and to the dust he will return, but his spirit is going to God."  Just something I found interesting and wanted to share.
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They came down with the polar bears, via FedEx.  God destroyed the first incarnation of FedEx, as well.\n\nEdit - reading a couple responses here, I see that we have a couple folks that actually DO believe this ridiculous fairy tale.  Let me explain... first of all, the story of Noah and the ark is quite impossible.  (But through God, anything is possible, right? Mmkay)  If the fact that it's impossible isn't good enough for you...\n\nHow about the fact that it's a pagan myth dealing with worship of the sun god?  This is not conjecture, folks.  This is fact.  See my source...