Giants have been part of history and mythology all over the world. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what giants are, how big humans can get, what's responsible for giants, and the report of giant people in legends and the Bible.AI-powered
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Giants! (Biblical Giants, Goliath, Nephilim, Tallest Man Ever, Robert Wadlow)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Characteristics Are Goliaths Meant to Have?
Very tall people can sometimes be intimidating and so giants are often portrayed as threats including being violent and savage. There's also a stereotype of a big dumb brute in contrast to small clever nimble people so giants are sometimes portrayed as stupid. Is Goliath the only giant in the Bible? No, in fact the earliest mention of giants in the Bible is way back in Genesis 6 just before the account of the Flood where we read about them.
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well and taking advantage of
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that. I have another sort of process question. I was wondering when you start a novel, do you feel like you start with character or with plot or how can you kind of describe like what makes an idea, a new novel for you and how you how you begin I guess.
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for a character who was kind of
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like a character who was not
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allowed to be pregnant but wanted to be pregnant and became pregnant and that then kind of transformed.
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of like it sounds really unhealthy. I just feel like it starts with a lot. But I think like from it normally kind of
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develops into character for me because I am so interested in kind of the interiority of the characters and interested in their experience more than a kind of larger world building but yeah kind of figuring out who the character is after that kind of first line. How did you find being longlisted for the Booker?
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I mean did that
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destabilize your writing at all or
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did it inspire it or because it just I mean that's such an enormous achievement it just must have thrown you or built you in some way.
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