Since Goliath was said to be 9ft tall?

Question

How is it that no one before or since has ever been documented to be that height or similar? What would cause such a thing?

Answer 1

the simple fact that the bible brigade want people to buy into their belief system so they exaggerate, whether it's true or not, the fact is that it sounds better if god helps you kill a 20ft plus man with a stone then a 9ft man does it not?

Answer 2

There have been countless people achieve nearly that height. It's one of several possible results of a genetic disorder. It is far less frequent only because medical science has come to understand the cause and to recognize someone with that condition at a very early age and to be able to treat the condition. Nine feet is indeed unusual, but there are scores of instances of American children having grown to a height of over eight feet within the past hundred and fifty years.

If truth be known, it'd be highly unlikely that Goliath would've been a ferocious warrior giant at all. Most people who have that genetic disorder also have other disorders that prevent them from the kind of athleticism and strength needed for hand-to-hand fighting that was predominant in the era in which Goliath is supposed to have lived. Those extra-tall people who have gone on to stellar careers in professional sports are quite exceptional and rare. Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, an NBA star from thirty years ago, was one such. A fortunate fellow, that...and very talented at what he did for a living.

Answer 3

Mr. Samuel Hubbard, dicovered remains of giants in a cave in the magnificent Grand Canyon of Arizona. His discovery was very important:

He found 2 petrified human bodies about 15-18 feet tall respectively. One of these was buried under a recent rock fall which required several days' work to remove; the other, which Mr. Hubbard photographed, was in a difficult to access crevice. Both bodies were formed of a limestone petrification embedded in sandstone.
He also found an ancient beach, now sandstone, that contained a great number of footprints of an entire race of giants: men, women and children. The prints of the adults were between 17 and 20 inches long and corresponded in size and shape to the Carson City and Blue Ridge prints. With these prints are also associated those of a huge elephant, somewhat similar in size to the remains discovered in the La Brea pits –the Elephas Primigenius– as well as tracks of a very small horse, which probably corresponded to the "Pliohippus." This beach where all this was found was evidently occupied when the river was many hundreds of feet above its actual level. Some of the human prints wee partly covered by the overlying stratum of stone, which is gradually weathering off.
Lastly, he found wall drawings that showed dinosaurs, elephants, ostriches, and ibexes; as well as the same figure of the serpent with the egg in its mouth as it has been found in the Mississippi mounds, with numerous other drawings. One of the drawings showed an elephant attacking a man. If the drawing is to scale, and if the elephant corresponds to the La Brea animal, then the man must have been about 18 feet tall.

Answer 4

Goliath towered to the extraordinary height of six cubits and a span according to the bible. (2.9 m; 9.5 ft). No where in the bible is found a reason to why he was of that "extraordinary" height. Moreover it focuses the position he had as the giant from the city of Gath, champion of the Philistine army...which as we all know was eventually taken down by David.

Considering also Genisis 6:4 where it says:"The Neph´i·lim proved to be in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of the [true] God continued to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame." BUT, this is ruled out because These Nephilim were eventually wiped off the planet with the deluge of NOAH.Goliath was after the Deluge.

Hope that helped.

Answer 5

Giants before Goliath are documented in the Bible:

Genesis 6: 1 = Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them. 2, The sons of God(these are the fallen angels that committed sexual sin, separate from Satan's rebellion), saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.

Skip someother verses

4: In those days, and for some time after, giant Nehphilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warrior of ancient times.

Goliath's brother is Mentioned in the Bible as well, which says that his brother was alittle bit taller and had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

Numbers 13 28 = But the people living there are powerful , and their towns are large and fortified. we even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak!

There is a Giant King who is in the Bible as well who is said to have a bed that was 13 feet long!! I forget his name, I think it is King Og of Bashan, I will have to look it up.

Answer 6

Robert Wadlow was 8' 11". His family, from what it told, seems to have no history of great height.
"The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence " aka sometime during the past 3 centuries. We can't assume that 3 centuries summarizes the whole of human existence (anywhere from 6,000 to half a million years or more, depending who you ask).

Anyway, if Waldo came from a family with no apparent history of giantism, then why is it surprising for Goliath to be tall when his whole family was large? In Goliath's case, it was genes...in Waldo's case, we don't know..probably an overactive pituitary gland.

Answer 7

Giant human skeletal remains ranging from 8 feet to 12 feet-tall have been discovered around the world in the last few hundred years. Do a web search on "giant humans!" Creationists believe that people started out large and possibly shrank down after the Flood when their longevity diminished.

Answer 8

I don't think I've ever heard how tall Goliath was, can you provide your source? And since people were smaller then (bone evidence shows that humans have been slowly growing in height), I'd suspect that even a mere 6 feet would seem huge. So, please, state your source.

Answer 9

Its a story....Much like the stories in Mythology. There is always some amazing feat of strength or miraculous event like slaying a giant with a rock or being the strongest man in the world until your hair gets cut. Its a fable...its not true..its just that some people really think it is. Which is very sad.

Answer 10

There have been people that have been close to that... I don't remember his name but there was a man in the 50's I think that was close to if not over 8 feet - look in the record book. Also, people back then liked to exaggerate when they told stories to get their point acroos, so maybe he was only like 7 or 8 feet.