Genesis 6:4 (New International Version)
4 "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown".
Or, if you'd rather, here's the King James:
Genesis 6:4 (King James Version)
4"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown".
I try to sort through the stuff that seems to me to be instructive, but probably didn't really happen, from the stuff that may have actually happened. I've really never known what to do with the Nephilim: there doesn't seem to be any real instruction in their inclusion, but if the Nephilim actually existed, why don't we have any scientific proof of them?
'Course, maybe it was like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, where they just store the artifacts away where nobody can find them. You remember Raiders of the Lost Ark, don't you? Well, here: let's melt some faces!
What the heck, I'll Google it. Maybe there are Giants out there.
Not these Giants.
These giants.Ah, finally, the following video proves conclusively the existence of the Nephilim:
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This has nothing to do with Genesis but I wanted to give you the update on the split of the Episcopal church in the Diocese of Quincy. The majority voted to stay with the Episcopal Church but for some odd reason they needed a 2/3 vote. So the church and its assets are now part of the Southern Cone. That doesn't seem fair to me but what do I know. Anyway, the members that decided to stay with the church are now meeting in a community hall at an apartment complex. Good for them, I say.
Just like the early Christians did, John (course, they didn't call them condos back then). Rough times ahead for the ECUSA. Our recently retired bishop made a lot of reactionary noises, but always made it clear that his allegience was with the national district. Not sure where Bishop Lawrence will ultimately take us.
Now these giants, were they around before or after the men were riding around on the dinosaurs that coexisted with man? (not saying the fundamentalists are nut-jobs, just ax-ing a question)
Apparently, they're ante-diluvian and post-diluvian (before and after the flood). Whether they're pre, post, or para Jurassic, I can't say. I got to agree with the Pope (the current one; not the one that condemned Gallileo): the Bible is not a science book. Still, most of the stuff that seems pretty clearly not factually accurate (the creation story, the Fall, Jonah's being swallowed by a "great fish") contain essential truths about the Creator and people, or attempt to explain current (or current when they were told or written) situations. The Nephilimi are like the appendix: maybe it had a function, but I got no idea what.
Oh, how very political of you.
Those nuts say the earth is only 6K years old. And started with two people. Come on now, Gimme a break. The Egyptians were already making beer more than 6 thousand years ago (cousrse that may be why the population escatlated from 2 to 6 billion so quickly)
The creation story is just a story. The only essentially factual part is "God created". Still, like Chief Seattle is s'posed to have said, "I don't know if it happened, but I know it's true". Most fundamentalists are just dying for certainty in this confusing world. That doesn't bug me; what bugs me is the ones that are mean, and beat me over the head with their constructed certainty.
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