RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 10:31 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2012 at 11:00 pm by jonb.)
(July 15, 2012 at 10:06 pm)Drich Wrote: 4 And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. 5 He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. 6 And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. 7 Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. 8 Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. 9 If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” 10 And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.” 11 When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
I am not disputing that an army lead by god would not crap its pants at the sight of a big guy, but a man of that size just could not troll about normally, and would be to all intensive purposes disabled. See pictures of men above, find out about the disabilitating nature of giantism.
In fact the placement of the spear is a give away, it was obviously used to prop up the poor old bugger. Think the army of god with the ark which destroys all before it (Which must be a more effective weapon than anything NATO has in Afghanistan). Wetting themselves until some delinquent teenage shepherd does over a cripple:- What am I supposed to lean from this?
