Who were the Nephilim?
If you’re like me this question has bothered you since you were a kid. At one point I resolved that the Nephilim must have been the origins of the Greco-Roman pantheons. But I’m not really sure.
The Nephilim (sons of God) also provide an interesting prospect regarding sex in the new creation… which Jesus seems to rule out when he’s answering the Pharisees who are trying to trip him up on marriage in the New Creation, he says we’ll be like the sons of God — who in Genesis 6 saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and they had children with them…
Some people think the Nephilim were just the last of the Neanderthals… which sounds like a Daniel Day-Lewis movie.
It seems everyone has a theory on these from the plausible (that they were just big headed overachievers whose arrogance led people astray) to the wacky (neanderthals or one of the many groups of people the Torah books not included in the canon teach about).
I don’t know. But it’s fun.
Who was/is Melchizedek
This is the other curly one — wherefore and whyfore comes this priestly king with his cameo — and it’s clearly significant because he’s a precursor to the kingly/priestly Jesus — and whofore is this king? Is he an incarnation of the pre-incarnate Christ? Is he just a God fearing king from a city with a similar name to Jerusalem — which does not yet exist. Is he a time travelling budy of Doc from Back to the Future? Share your opinions on these matters — or the questions you want to ask God, in the comments. Do it. You know you want to.
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What makes gravity work? — assuming He hasn’t let anyone in on the secret before then.
Can I sign up for interstellar exploration in the new creation?
I’m with Mark on the gravity question. I was thinking about that just the other day. Yes, we know gravity is the larger body, such as Earth, pulling smaller bodies towards it. But whyyyyyyyyy?
Perhaps “in him all things hold together” Col 1:17b :p