I actually wrote the following as a comment to Dan Blincoe’s The Bread and Life site’s post Week 11: The Nephilim in Canaan which is one of those 90% sermonizing posts about Confronting Giants of Fear and Faith.
Yet, when I went to post the comment, I was denied since, “Only paid subscribers can comment on this post.”
Well, no worries, I could just send him a message, right?
Now, “Dan Blincoe only accepts messages from subscribers.”
Welcome to the modern cyber world where people can post whatever they want and you have no access to them unless you subscribe.
Well, I thought I might as well post my comment here—why let a good comment go to waste, right?
Here it is:
You’re unfamiliar with this subject matter.
Hopefully, you only accidentally manipulated Num 13.
You generically refer to “The Spies’…The spies…their report…The spies’…the spies’…The spies’” without once noting what the narrative notes: there were 12 spies and a division occurred between Caleb and Joshua (have you ever read Num chaps 13-14?) and the 10 who showed themselves to be unreliable, unfaithful, disloyal, contradictory, embellishers.
You also failed to note that there are two reports in that chapter so you just mashed both of them together even though one is accepted as is and one is an “evil report” by the 10 whom God rebuked.
You also jumped from the specific ancient Hebrew word “Nephilim” to the modern generically subjective English one “giants” so it’s hard to follow: what’s the usage of the vague, generic, subjective, multi-usage and modern English word “giants” in English Bibles? What’s your usage? Do those two usages agree?
Thus, your sermonizing is faulty since it’s based on un-biblical tall-tales of your own making.
As for, “The Nephilim, possibly remnants of pre-flood giants” again, you’re playing linguistics name-game word swap and imply that it could be that God failed, He missed a loophole, the flood was much of a waste, etc., etc., etc.
Just as you reduced 12 spies into one group, you also ignored Joshua, as I already noted, by myopically focusing on, “Caleb alone…Caleb’s faith…Caleb’s courage.”
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