Giants_in_the_Bible
Nephilims were on the earth, before and after the flood. Who are these giants? Were there other giant tribes and nations on the earth. How did they happen? A scriptural review on giants on earth.
Nephilims were on the earth, before and after the flood. Who are these giants? Were there other giant tribes and nations on the earth. How did they happen? A scriptural review on giants on earth.
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GIANTS IN THE BIBLE<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
It is very likely that <strong>the</strong> only way that you would get this genetic disorder to be so strongly re<strong>in</strong>forced as<br />
to have an entire tribes of giants, where every man, woman, and child has <strong>the</strong> genetic disorder, is by<br />
<strong>in</strong>breed<strong>in</strong>g. The scientific understand<strong>in</strong>g of hereditary gigantism supports this assertion. (3,8) And we<br />
know that <strong>the</strong>se people did practice <strong>in</strong>breed<strong>in</strong>g. God confirms <strong>the</strong>se nations practiced <strong>in</strong>breed<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />
Leviticus 18, and this is what it would take to get entire villages of giants, <strong>in</strong> which every man woman<br />
and child was a giant. For <strong>in</strong>stance, FIPA is a dom<strong>in</strong>ant trait with only <strong>in</strong>complete penetration, mean<strong>in</strong>g<br />
it acts recessive <strong>in</strong> many ways, and so it would be almost impossible to get a whole village of giant<br />
people, except if <strong>the</strong> trait was re<strong>in</strong>forced through <strong>in</strong>breed<strong>in</strong>g, like <strong>the</strong> close <strong>in</strong>breed<strong>in</strong>g Lev 18 mentions,<br />
mak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> trait to show very dom<strong>in</strong>antly…..<br />
“And yet aga<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>re was war at Gath, where was a man of [great] stature, whose f<strong>in</strong>gers and<br />
toes [were] four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]: and he also was <strong>the</strong> son of<br />
<strong>the</strong> giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan <strong>the</strong> son of Shimea David’s bro<strong>the</strong>r slew him. These<br />
were born unto <strong>the</strong> giant <strong>in</strong> Gath; and <strong>the</strong>y fell by <strong>the</strong> hand of David, and by <strong>the</strong> hand of his<br />
servants.” 1 Ch 20:6-8<br />
Like a quarant<strong>in</strong>e, to save much more of humanity from <strong>the</strong> genetic disorder of gigantism, God had<br />
<strong>the</strong>se tribes of giant people to be killed. This was a mercy on any children <strong>the</strong>y may have had, and<br />
future generations, as gigantism is a very pa<strong>in</strong>ful, deform<strong>in</strong>g and disabl<strong>in</strong>g genetic disorder. This also<br />
was protective aga<strong>in</strong>st spread<strong>in</strong>g this genetic disorder to all those peoples around <strong>the</strong>m, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong><br />
Israelites. (Jdg 3:5-7)<br />
http://www.fipapatients.org/disorders/fipa/<br />
Figure below:. Autosomal dom<strong>in</strong>ant disease with <strong>in</strong>complete penetrance. In this case, <strong>the</strong><br />
fa<strong>the</strong>r's abnormal gene was <strong>in</strong>herited by 2 of his 4 children. Out of <strong>the</strong> three carriers (<strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>r,<br />
one son and one daughter) two patients developed <strong>the</strong> disease (fa<strong>the</strong>r and daughter) while <strong>the</strong><br />
third carries <strong>the</strong> gene but has not developed <strong>the</strong> disease. We do not know if this third person<br />
(<strong>the</strong> carrier son <strong>in</strong> this case) will develop <strong>the</strong> disease <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> future or not, and currently it is not<br />
possible to predict this.<br />
Families with pituitary adenomas, FIPA families, can be divided <strong>in</strong>to two groups.<br />
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