re: Do you think human giants ever roamed this earth?

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Children starve to death, get raped, beaten, killed. Die of illness. Stillborn etc. and that just tip of the iceberg. YOU think he’s loving because YOU created the mindset he is.

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So, you see suffering as a bad thing?

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The resurrection of Christ is absolutely fundamental to the Christian faith.

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I agree.

I also believe for Christian theology to make any sense (regardless of its actual truth) there has to be a need for the crucifixion and resurrection that puts the blame for death and suffering squarely on mankind.

The Bible states that death entered through the sin of Adam. Before Adam’s sin, Earth was essentially paradise, or Heaven. Things like cancer, birth defects, predation, hurricanes, etc., exist because we live in a fallen world that God did not intend.

The problem with this (which biblical writers would have been ignorant about) is Earth is a very old place and that life has struggled for survival for eons. Man did not cause the hardships we face. They were already here long before we showed up. We were born to die regardless of sin.

And if it’s not Man’s fault that we suffer and die, then what is Jesus saving us from?

If someone gets drunk and falls off a ship and Joe jumps in and saves him, then Joe is a hero for saving him. This is analogous to a literal Garden of Eden scenario and makes sense theologically - but is scientifically questionable - because we are being saved from a problem we caused ourselves.

If someone is minding their business and Joe intentionally pushes him off a ship and then jumps in a few minutes later and saves him, I don’t think you can call the Joe a hero because he fixed a problem that he caused. This is like a liberal interpretation of Genesis that accounts for evolution and relieves Man from the burden of creating a hostile world - but makes no sense theologically.

We can argue all day about what miracles some desert-dwellers may or may not have witnessed thousands of years ago. None of that can be proven or disproven just like no one can prove or disprove that I had a conversation with the ghost of Jimmy Carter last night.

But when it comes to science, we can pull back the curtain a bit. We can see how things like the Garden of Eden and Noah’s Ark conflict with mountains of physical evidence and question the validity of the Bible.

I highly recommend the Shawn Ryan podcast with Lee Strobel. It's very recent and easy to find.

Strobel was once the chief legal editor of the Chicago Tribune and a devout athiest. He's a graduate of Yale Law so to say he's highly intelligent is an understatement.

His wife was agnostic but later converted to Christianity. Naturally this caused a huge rift in what had been a perfect marriage. Lee sought to "prove" Christianity was smoke and mirrors so he set out on a two year journey to prove it.

He's now an ordained minister if that tells you anything.

Fascinating listen and well worth the time.

Seems that the internet appears to be divided on whether Paul Bunyan and the Jolly Green Giant were real or not.

back to the original question.

It's easy to argue no because of the strength of materials of our bodies. BUT the fossil record from southernmost South America (specifically Patagonia) has fossils that are giant when compared to their modern day presumed descendants. Their strength of materials was sufficient for them to be very large.

Read the Old Testament. The new is fiction.

I already posted this all knowing BS. If he’s all knowing he’d have never created mankind because he already knew they’d fail. There literally is no free will. If you know what’s going to happen ZERO

Yes you confused me even more. How did he sacrifice himself when it was murder? Why did god have man kill him instead of god himself? To me that would’ve been the ultimate sacrifice. To say you’re sacrificing your life for man’s sin which ummmm how early was Adam and Eve before Christ? A very long time. Funny he waited thousands of yrs later to put out a messiah after all the sin taking place. Perhaps Eve should’ve been the Virgin Mary. Would’ve made more sense than yrs later someone have a baby and telling her ignorant husband it was god…imagine that happening today. Would you believe it? Why not? Because it’s unfathomable

No loving god then

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We do have free will as I stated before god is not all knowing. I think I proved that point…

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You can’t prove anything about God.