/lit/ - Literature

>>23189909
The Nephilim were real, though. The giants, too. There might even still be a few of them around.

>>22809344
>A bunch of crock that is simply untrue.

It's entirely real, you're just a dumb materialist who believes in the Enlightenment's revisionism.

The giants were real too, by the way. Of course they were real, why wouldn't they be?

>The Philistines were Mycenaeans who fled Greece during the Bronze Age collapse. Goliath was a pseudo-Homeric champion reminiscent of the Iliad.
This is why you start with the Greeks

I’m under the impression that the Philistines were Mycenaean Greeks who ended up in the Levant and the Goliath myth is an allusion to Hercules. Is this correct?

>>21615584
>Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

This seems obvious to me: Jesus is declaring that some in the crowd are biologically immortal, either already or He has rendered them so by His words. So they will live until the Second Coming.

This is the Bible. It has giants, it has fallen angels, it has the Deluge, it has dragons, it has God speaking out of the whirlwind. And of course it has the literal Resurrection of Jesus. Why wouldn't it make room for certain people to be biologically immortal, too?

Hell, maybe there were some vampires in the crowd shadowing Jesus and Jesus was calling them out. Which would have the added effect of reminding them that they've given up their immortal souls, and when the Son of Man comes again they're going to be wiped totally out of existence. Or just sent to Hell for all time.

/lit/ has too many materialists and too many atheists. You can't approach Christianity with that mindset.

>A story very similar to that of David and Goliath appears in the Iliad, written circa 760–710 BCE, where the young Nestor fights and conquers the giant Ereuthalion.
>Most scholars agree that the Philistines were of Greek origin, and that they came from Crete and the rest of the Aegean Islands or, more generally, from the area of modern-day Greece.
>narrative formulae such as the settlement of battle by single combat between champions has been thought characteristic of the Homeric epics (the Iliad) rather than of the ancient Near East. The designation of Goliath as a איש הביניים, "man of the in-between" (a longstanding difficulty in translating 1 Samuel 17) appears to be a borrowing from Greek
>the original meaning of Goliath's name would be "Lion-man," thus placing him within the realm of Indo-European warrior-beast mythology.
Why did nobody tell me the Philistines were just Dark Age Greeks and that Goliath is supposed to be Hercules

I see absolutely nothing wrong with taking the Bible literally. It's not as hard as you might think. It also doesn't entail being a Young Earth Creationist, because there's more than enough wiggle room about how God perceives the passage of time for each "day" in Genesis to last billions of years.

But the actual history detailed in the Bible legitimately doesn't bother me. I absolutely believe the Flood happened. Every single culture of sufficient age has a worldwide flood story, even places that had no contact with the Fertile Crescent, like Japan and the North American Southwest. If the story crops up everywhere, why can't it be true? Why can't there have been a global flood?

Also, I completely believe giants were real. There's enough believable accounts of skeletons being found that I'm convinced. Hell, they might STILL be real. Who knows what lurks in the still-wild places of the world?

Also, demons are completely real. I know this personally, since I think I got bitten by one once.

So the Old Testament is no big deal to me.

Okay, then, OP, if we find giant skeletons will you believe giants actually existed?

>>16930275
The weak imposing his will over the strong is a paradox. Strength is defined in relation to who holds the power over whom, NietzscheLARPer.