Did giants walk the earth?

Greece
January 11, 2013 8:50am CST
There are a number of references in the Bible to giants. Goliath is the most known and named giant, but long before that time in Genesis 6 we read that 'the Nephilim were on the earth in those days. Later some of their descendants were living in Canaan and frightened the Israelites because the people there 'were of great size'. Goliath himself came from Gath which was home to some of these survivors. Could the stories of ancient gods and their mighty feats have been based on stories that had been handed down and embellished by later generations as the years went by?
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@kenshin2143 (1880)
• Philippines
11 Jan 13
I think there were no concrete proofs of such claim that giant did really exist in our worlds. We have those huge dinosaurs which are pretty gigantic compared to our living species today, but as for human giants, I think they did not really exist.
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• Marikina, Philippines
11 Jan 13
I am thinking about those giants. This involves about sumerian texts. It is all about ancient gods like ancient aliens. They say sumerian texts is similar to bible that is why even giants are mention in bible. Another is they say giants in bible is a ancient alien from outer space, but some religious people would not believe this.
• India
13 Jan 13
Check this one: http://www.pakalertpress.com/2011/11/02/hundreds-of-giant-aliens-unearthed-near-african-village/
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• Greece
12 Jan 13
The Nephilim are described as 'sons of God' in the Genesis account and this means any being created by God. So perhaps they did come from outer space....?
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
13 Jan 13
Read the Book of Enoch. He is the seventh from Adam, and it is said of him that he did not die, but was taken. In the book of Enoch it describes his translation to the very throne room of the Almighty as he attempts to intervene on behalf of 'the watchers', the sons of angels and women. Many ancient peoples have legends of a group of 'watchers', in fact..the write Anne Rice mentions them in her vampire series. The Sumerians and many others like the Babylonians speak of what some are calling 'aliens'. It is my theory they will return before the second coming as space aliens, to deceive mankind once more.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
11 Jan 13
I rather suspect that as I suspect that those gods called Odin, Zeus, etc. may have been based on real people. In the Flood all the Nephilim were supposed to be destroyed, but we do not know if one of Noah's wife's parents or one of the wives of Shem, Ham, and Japeth had some Nephilim descent, even a tiny bit. And when Babal happened, and everyone scattered, by horrible chance, the genetic increase of Nephilim increased and we have the Goliath family. It also could be that some of the people who would have lived in Northern Europe settled in Canaan or that the average sizs of the Hebrews were just over five feet. Then even normal people would look like giants. I also read that many Euopeans have Neandretals in them - yes large noses. So it is possible that the Nephilim became the Goliaths of ancient Philistine.
• Greece
12 Jan 13
The King James version says that Noah was upright in all his generations so he did not have any bad DNA in his line. If you check Giants in the net you will find some very informative articles on this subject. Goliath and his family were not the only ones mentioned by name and Gath the area where he lived was known as a residence of giants.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
13 Jan 13
and the messianic line comes from Shem, so it must be pure human DNA as well. Perhaps Ham and Japath had different mothers than Shem? I was told by a preacher that the bloodline of the messiah must be pure so as to be a proper sacrifice for the sin of humanity. There is the weird cursing of Ham's son to think about as well.
@celticeagle (167071)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Jan 13
I wonder. I saw a documentary that explored the possibility of mignet people too. They have found some small skeletons on one island. Perhaps these giants had that disorder where your growth hormones are out of wack.
@celticeagle (167071)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Jan 13
midgets not mignet.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
13 Jan 13
And here I thought I was the only one who had that theory. Have you read the Book of Enoch? You can find it online, it is mentioned, I believe, in the NT book of Jude. I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already. It tells of 'the watchers' who ask Enoch to intervene for them with God. They've been chained against the day of the coming of the son of man...Jesus. I take it one step further. In the NT (Matt. 24:37) it says; But as the days of Noe were, so shall the coming of the son of man be. In the book of Enoch (and Genesis) we read that the angels bred a race of giants with human women, that there was much evil because of them. We can also read elsewhere of the theory that the Sumerians and other ancient civilizations interacted with 'aliens'. I believe (my theory) that 'aliens' (this race of giants, men of renown, titans) will return in the last days before Jesus returns. They of course will be these 'titans' half breed giants that Enoch writes about in his book. Much of the world will believe them to be real aliens from another planet. They will be in fact, deamons. While I have no absolute proof of this; there is enough scripture and apocrypha to support it as a valid theory.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
13 Jan 13
Something interesting; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvybsyRnjA
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• Greece
18 Feb 13
Thank you debra. I looked up the utube and it was fascinating.
@dollar3235 (2062)
• India
11 Jan 13
In history we've been visited by advanced alien races and when they visited this planet, they did twisted the genes of the animals on this planet, all those mysterious creatures that you read in history books are not only imaginations, ancient humans had experiences those things and that's why we read it in History/mythological books.
• Greece
12 Jan 13
An interesting reflection dollar.
@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
11 Jan 13
I wonder if these are exaggerations, and how they would define giant? What is giant to one person may not be giant to another, or to make the story sound more grand, more exciting to share among the people they would embellish it with the word 'GIANT' if you just said a tall person that wouldn't create much of a story or interest, but if you said Giant then it would be more of a story to tell!
@namiya (1718)
• Philippines
12 Jan 13
It could be that the tribe these people belong to were only comparatively bigger and taller than the Israelites then. We have an ethnic group here whose height averages less than five feet. Compared to average built and height of westerners, these ethnic people would seem as dwarfs beside giants standing more than 6 feet.
@garson (884)
• United States
18 Feb 13
I read the Life Application Version Bible. Many verses has different types of explanation including historical data, scholarly research, and translation interpretation. Genesis presents some elements like challenging, thoughtful, and mysterious, including the subjects of giants. If you have History Channel or ever watch one, it has a show called Ancient Aliens. One episode covers this. Based on this episode, it is possible that giants might have descended from angels. Angels are beings that could originated from other planets. I'm not sure if I want to believe this, but anything is possible.
@toyota4k (1208)
• Philippines
12 Jan 13
It's true how the Bible mentioned giants wherein they were the same human like us but with extra ordinary sizes just as there were small people, smaller than the Israelis. That for sure was due to their genes but in later years, whose sizes decreased or for the smaller ones increased or stayed. While poets and authors possess a good imagination, that may be perhaps why they wrote about giants and such.
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
12 Jan 13
yes for sure and many have seen the footprints too ideally
@Pegasus72 (1898)
18 Jan 13
I think so, and even when people were sent to marry in different lands, you know the lands that had no other people. Where did they come from. I always ask God to forgive me for my thinking, but I am thinking he is one God of many, or there wouldn't be mention of other people.
@mybranko (56)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
19 Jan 13
Before biblical Flood there was different climate on Earth. Some water in orbit have created a different atmosphere pressure. Today's method of measuring the age of the Earth by radioactivity have errors because of reduced radioactivity due to water depletion. On the Wikipedia site can be found one discovery of Tyrannosaurus soft tissue. There are also traces of great people mixed with traces of large animals. Many buildings are too big and have too precise design for that time. And who knows what it's all gone in the Flood. Many questions remain, but there are not many people who have the courage to ask...
• Indonesia
12 Jan 13
Those who believe that giants really exist, have always alleged that, most of the evidence has been concealed or about giant as hoax accused by the "scientific community" because it does not fit the narrative of evolution. Any evidence emerged that threatens the theory of evolution by rapidly "reinterpreted", hushed up or brushed under the carpet. And maybe the gods of legends do exist as the giant in earth, if you believe nephilim did exist long time ago.
@dainy1313 (2370)
• Leon, Mexico
11 Jan 13
Hi Combe good morning. You are right, is true that Bible mention those giants. But there are no phsycal proof of them.
• Pamplona, Spain
11 Jan 13
Hiya CR., Not far away from us there is a valley a really deep one where there are huge amounts of really big dinosaurs that once existed well the fossils I mean and the huge footprints those are the kind of giants I really believe in because the evidence is there for all to see. About the other kind of Giant I think they might have only existed in Stories all around the World and that´s it.xxx