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Giants on the Earth

The Bible presents a history of the earth in the days of man that is at times astonishing. It is not
surprising that many who reject the divine inspiration of the Scriptures view its narratives as
nonsense. There are even those among professing Christians who stumble in unbelief when they
encounter Biblical facts that cannot be explained rationally through accepted scientific dogma. The
earth and all living creatures being formed in six days - ridiculous! A great flood that covered the
entire earth, overtopping all the mountains - hogwash! Men before the flood living to nearly 1,000
years - preposterous! All the languages of humanity being created in a single moment of time at
Babel - foolishness!

The truth is, the miraculous and incredible are present with us every day. Mankind has a tendency to
put on blinders which keep him from perceiving the evidence that we live in a supernatural realm that
cannot be explained by purely naturalistic laws. There is a divine presence that sustains, directs, and
continually upholds order in the creation. This is a truth the Scriptures affirm.

Hebrews 1:1-3
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in
these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also
He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature,
and upholds all things by the word of His power.

Acts 17:22
The God who made the universe and all the things in it, this God being the natural Lord of heaven
and earth, does not take up His residence in sanctuaries made by hands, neither is He served by the
hands of mankind as though needing any certain thing in addition to what He already has, and this
in view of the fact that He himself is constantly giving to all life and breath and all things. And He
made out of one source material every nation of mankind to inhabit the entire surface of the earth,
having marked out the limitations of strategic, epochal periods of time which have been appointed
and the fixed boundaries of their occupancy, in order that they should be seeking this aforementioned
God, if so then they will grope after Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us, for
in Him we derive our life and have motion, as also certain of your poets have said, For of Him are