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Giants: Sons of the God
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Douglas Van Dorn304 ratings, 4.28 average rating, 31 reviews
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“When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
― Giants: Sons of the God
― Giants: Sons of the God
“and crushed the head of the serpent who now staggers from his mortal wound and very soon will be punished with everlasting punishment in the Judgment to come.”
― Giants: Sons of the God
― Giants: Sons of the God
“Teutobocchus”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“example, the Roman historian Julias Florus (2nd Century A.D.) describes one Teutobocchus (a blue eyed, yellow haired Gaul king) as “a man of extraordinary stature” who used to “vault over four or six horses at once” but “could scarcely mount one when he fled.” When captured he “was seen above all the trophies or spoils of the enemies,”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Isaiah employs highly charged mythological language to describe a demon infested ruin of two places with roots deep in the giant legends of antiquity. The idea that the Bible speaks about centaurs, sirens, satyrs, Lilith,”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.’ And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him.” The captain of the LORD’s host said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Has anyone ever put it more bluntly than Richard Dawkins when he said, “The [fictional] God of the Old Testament is ... jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”[208]”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“When given this kind of a history, it is extremely interesting to compare these figures with the DNA double-helix. In fact, the two depictions are easily found”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Clearly, God was angry at birds, reptiles, and crawling things as well as men and women. Did all of the critters on the earth “sin”? Can you even apply “sin” to spiders or earthworms, which clearly are included in “all flesh” (6:7, 20)? In my mind, it is a certainty”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“that for Noah to be “perfect in his generations” means that he was physically pure, that is, unpolluted, undefiled, and perhaps genetically untainted.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“her book Yes We Can Be Perfect In Our Generation she writes, “If nobody is perfect why does scripture say Noah was a perfect man? See”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“They can commit “adultery” with “stone and tree” (Jer 3:9). While we (rightly) spiritualize these kinds of things (people are not literally exchanging bodily fluids with non-physical gods and demons), it must be recognized that we frankly don’t have any idea what takes place in the spiritual realm when people commit idolatry, not to mention the temple prostitution that regularly took place here.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“how would marriages of Sethites and Cainites result in gigantic offspring? There has never been a satisfactory answer to this question by anyone.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“In fact, speaking of our very text (Genesis 6:1-4), the late Christian apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote,”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“not believe? Calvin is utterly mocking in his tone when he says, “That ancient figment, concerning the intercourse of angels with women, is abundantly refuted by its own absurdity;”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Jesus is called The only begotten Son of God.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Moses tells us, “They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had never known, new gods that had come along recently whom your fathers never dreaded” (Ex 32:17). What does this mean: they came along recently? From where did these demons originate?”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“Most people never stop to consider the fact that the abominable practices going on in the land of Canaan were directly related to the giants, or that their wickedness becomes the background of God’s giving Israel her own laws. Recall how God told Abraham that the sins of the Amorites (giants) had not come to their full fruition in his day (Gen 15:16). Part of the reason for not giving Abraham the land right then and there was that these inhabitants of the Promised Land, no matter who—or what—they were, rightly possessed it. God does not just throw people out of a land—much less utterly destroy them—unless there is compelling moral justification for doing so. God is holy, not capricious. It is not until a people reach a point of no return that the “land will vomit” out its inhabitants (Lev 18:28). Until that time, wherever that line is drawn in God’s mind, the people have a right to be stewards in the land, apparently, even if they are giants.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“They were trying to bring heaven down through powerful magic. They knew well about the ancient Genesis 6 story. They wanted to make contact with the gods of old.”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
“The purpose of the Tower of Babel thus seems to have been to make some kind of forbidden contact with the invisible world, with the sons of God who had previously descended upon another mountain, Mt. Hermon. ”
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― Giants: Sons of the God
