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Giants
July 15, 2012 at 9:01 am
Since David and Goliath is one of the more famous Bible stories, I don't know how I've managed to forget this for so long. But did you guys know that giants are in the Bible quite a bit?
Just thought I'd remind everyone because it's fucking hilarious. Giants. Next time a fundamentalist fuckhead challenges you to give an example of something scientifically inaccurate in the Bible, have a go with this one. Any of the Christians here that want to have a go at explaining this one away, have at it.
Giants, for fuck's sake. Haha.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 9:17 am
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ElDinero Wrote:Just thought I'd remind everyone because it's fucking hilarious. Giants. Next time a fundamentalist fuckhead challenges you to give an example of something scientifically inaccurate in the Bible, have a go with this one. Any of the Christians here that want to have a go at explaining this one away, have at it.
Giants, for fuck's sake. Haha.
Seems to me it may be one of the more reasonable claims, unless
giant is defined as impossibly large.
Say the average height of a man in those times was not much over 5 ft. Quite likely, I'd say. Now bring in a very unusual man of, say, 6ft 6" or more - unusual, but by no means impossible. He might well be described as a giant, depending on what the original Hebrew word brought to mind in those days. After biblical times, of course, the word picked up all manner of supernatural baggage from folk tales.
There's a lot of truly loony stuff to pick on in the bible, let's leave out vague terms such as
giant.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 10:44 am
If it just used the term vaguely, I'd agree. But Goliath's height is described as being 'six cubits and a span'. My understanding of Biblical cubits is that this would equate to about ten feet. And King Og's bed is described as being nine cubits. And there's supposed to be an entire population of people presumably around the region of this sort of height.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 10:55 am
If I'm not mistaken, the concept of giants was around long before the Bible was written and it meant impossibly huge. Of course, maybe those who wrote the bible were behind on their folklore, but the contrary seems more accurate. Also ElD is right; they mention a whole race of giants.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 12:24 pm
ElDinero Wrote:If it just used the term vaguely, I'd agree. But Goliath's height is described as being 'six cubits and a span'. My understanding of Biblical cubits is that this would equate to about ten feet. And King Og's bed is described as being nine cubits. And there's supposed to be an entire population of people presumably around the region of this sort of height.
Ah, OK, I should have checked that before giving my two-pennyworth. Still, it's probably a case of a story being exaggerated in the transmission, rather than a claim of supernatural beings. Doesn't help the bible literalists' case, though.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 2:35 pm
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Giants
July 15, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I don't think he has a 47" funny bone.
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