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Powerful.
"This is the first time [in] 40 years... that I have come across so much powerful, rediscovered truth." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Dr John C. McEwan, Evangelical Bible College of Western Australia
Well researched.
"If you have ever wondered about those "giant men of renown" or "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6, I highly suggest this man's book! Well researched and well written! Loads of recognized canonical verses and historical written material from all tribes, lands and tongues." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Sean Harris, customer review from Facebook
"I was overwhelmed by the staggering amount of research that went into Mr. Steadman's book. The work is very up-to-date in terms of the peer reviewed resources and ancient texts that he uses. It is refreshing to see the scriptures interpreted against the culture and background of its writers. I am confident that this book will, as the subtitle says, enlarge your faith." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Bob Vigneault, customer review from Amazon
Unrivalled explanatory power.
This has quickly become one of my favorites on this topic! I read through the book one time a couple months ago on my Kindle and re-read my highlighted portions (which were many) now which pretty much made a second run-through! The topic of the giants/Nephilim is something I've been interested in and reading into for probably 5 years now, and I've been interested in Bible prophecy since I was a teenager. This book has amazing insights into both areas! I've read many books in this vein over the past several years, including a few personal favorites like Ryan Pitterson (Judgment of the Nephilim, The Final Nephilim), Laura Sanger (Roots of the Federal Reserve), Michael Heiser (Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon), Douglas Hamp (Corrupting the Image series), Tom Horn (Exo-Vaticana); and this book is right up there in quality in my opinion and better in some respects as it covers some things more clearly and gives insights to certain areas that the others don't. Love the breakdown of the original Hebrew words throughout; it really gives amazing insight into what was really happening and how much the modern translations lose. And truly as the title says, as you read about the history and future of the Nephilim and see how everything is connected, it really helps to strengthen not only your knowledge and understanding of the Bible but also strengthens your faith!
The following are areas that I loved and that made this book really stand out to me as a favorite (and why this book will be a great ongoing reference book): the concepts in the flood (as to why it was a judgment / what really happened during the flood / meaning behind the numbers), the chiastic structures (and their significance) of the early Old Testament judgments of Gen 6/Gen 11/Exodus/Korah, the meanings behind the Azazel goat sacrifice, what really happened with Nimrod and the Tower of Babel, Leviathan (probably best explanation that I have read), Ezekiel 31-32, the Rephaim (probably best explanation that I have read), the meaning behind scorpions/locusts/lions through the Bible, the future of the Nephilim and reasoning behind it, the explanation of Revelation 9 judgments, the meanings inside of the genealogies, how the Nephilim are connected to God's covenants through history, and Christian life during the Church age. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Ben Selph, customer review from Amazon
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Compelling.
"TJ provides a good narrative of the first incursion and a different theory on the post-flood repopulation of giants. He provides reasonable evidence and biblical exegesis to support his theory.
The book is easy to read and goes through key Hebraic word studies and hidden meanings behind biblical texts and Mesopotamian stories. He provides a compelling and different approach and theory to the post-flood Nephilim Giants and how they repopulated.
The chapters are broken down into several different sections and provides a narrative from the pre-flood age of the Nephilim, the origin of the post-flood Giants through ancient rituals, the Rephaim demonic spirits, Rephaim texts, the Christian identity and how it relates to the Fallen Kingdom and his conclusion of Christian end times.
Overall it is a really good book and comprises of many different sources such as biblical text, Sumerian legends and stories as well as word studies relating to the Nephilim, fallen angels and spiritual entities." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Jeff Liu, customer review from Amazon
Connects the dots.
"The pun in the title says much about the rest of the book, which is written in an easy to read but fact-based way.
It is a broad overview of Jewish history - the history of God’s chosen people - which spans from Genesis in the OT to Revelation in NT. Prophesy after prophesy is turned on its head but also deepened and put in perspective, big events like the tower of Babel get new light on them both through recent bible scholarship and research of early Mesopotamian culture. For any reader that needs to connect the dots in ancient mythology and to see God’s hidden salvation plan for all the world unravel in all its glory, this is a gem." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Mats Leidö, customer review from Amazon
A must-have.
"What a fantastic piece of work!! ... I will be using this as reference material. Using the Bible and numerous historical texts and references T.J. [Steadman] has released his book [Answers to Giant Questions] ... if you have ever wondered about the Biblical giants and how the evil spirits came to be, you must order this book!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- sirbardsley, review from Instagram
An amazing reference book.
"I have been studying the Giants for several years and this is the most inclusive, well researched book ever! I was following T.J's posts from a Facebook group for a few months prior to the book release and eagerly anticipated this book. I was concerned that he would not have enough Bible based references and he had all that were needed!
This books puts to rest a lot of the myths that have been around for thousands of years and really centers you on who is the cause of the evil of this world. Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
TJ had loads of Biblical recognized canon as well as the historical records of the Hebrews and many other cultures.
You would do yourself a huge disservice not to read this book!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Debbie, customer review from Amazon
Fantastic scholarship.
I've followed Dr Mike Heiser (Unseen Realm, The Naked Bible Podcast) for several years, and this book aligns well with that material, but goes beyond the information covered by Dr Heiser in some surprising and unique ways I haven't encountered via other scholarly materials on this subject. Bravo, your work is outstanding. I purchased this book after listening to the Answers to Giant Questions podcast, which I highly recommend. You just don't get the information that this author is putting out anywhere else. Keep it coming! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- CJB, customer review from Amazon
Readable, comprehensive, spiritually sensitive.
"I would rate Answers to Giant Questions as a ‘must read’ for those interested in learning more about the gods of the Bible and the rebellious angels of Genesis 6 from the perspective of the Divine Council worldview that was held by the ancient Israelites and before. TJ Steadman has a very readable and to the point style of writing that shows a deep understanding of the subject. I would rank this book up there with Mike Heiser’s ‘[The] Unseen Realm’ and Ryan Pitterson’s ‘Judgement of the Nephilim’. It is good to see an Australian author come out with such comprehensive and spiritually sensitive book on a subject that has been ignored for so long by mainstream Christianity. This book will increase your faith and understanding of God." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Matt Wilson, customer review from Amazon
"I would rate Answers to Giant Questions as a ‘must read’ for those interested in learning more about the gods of the Bible and the rebellious angels of Genesis 6 from the perspective of the Divine Council worldview that was held by the ancient Israelites and before. TJ Steadman has a very readable and to the point style of writing that shows a deep understanding of the subject. I would rank this book up there with Mike Heiser’s ‘[The] Unseen Realm’ and Ryan Pitterson’s ‘Judgement of the Nephilim’. It is good to see an Australian author come out with such comprehensive and spiritually sensitive book on a subject that has been ignored for so long by mainstream Christianity. This book will increase your faith and understanding of God." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Matt Wilson, customer review from Amazon
An excellent work in biblical scholarship.
Answers To Giant Questions is an excellent work in biblical scholarship. If you’re a theology nerd like me who has a particular interest in the Nephilim or The Bible’s primeval history, you should read this book. In the first section of the book, Steadman argues that the Nephilim are the giant offspring of angels and humans having sexual relations. He proves this from the biblical text and shows how the non-supernatural interpretations (which, as he points out were utterly non-existent until around the fourth century A.D) are flawed and cannot account for the biblical data as well as The Angelic-Hybrid view.
In section 2 of the book, he addresses the question of how the Nephilim could have appeared post flood. He looks at the possibility that the Giants could have survived the flood, he looks at the possibility that the Angels who impregnated the women Before the flood repeated their offence after the flood, and he looks at the possibility that maybe someone on The Ark such as Noah, Noah's wife, or one of Noah's sons or the wives of Noah's sons could have carried on the genes of the Nephilim that were dormant for a little while but then resurged later like atavisms in later generations. He looks at all of these possibilities and uses biblical texts and logic to rule them out. The option that he thinks is the most plausible, and he uses extra biblical ancient near Eastern documents to bolster this argument, is that the Biblical Nimrod summoned one of the Fallen Watchers and they used black magic to transform him into a Nephilim.. and so, it was Nimrod being super naturally transformed into a Nephilim that caused the Nephilim to reappear post-flood.
It is a pretty solid work on this topic, and in my opinion, you’ll be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t read it. Like a lot of books dealing with biblical studies and Ancient Near Eastern stuff, this is not bedtime reading. This is a book for serious study. This book will make you think. You’ll need to think. And that’s a good thing. We need to use the brains that God gave us.
He also talks about the war Israel had against the giant clans in their conquest of Canaan, which not only has theological value but also has apologetic value for those who object to the “slaughter of the Canaanites” on Moral grounds. Steadman argues ... that the only people the Israelites really had to kill were soldiers (giant and human) who stayed behind to fight. There were probably VERY few civilians who would have chosen to say (e.g Rahab and her family). So although I argue that God’s destruction of the Canaanites was just on the basis of how utterly depraved they were (one of the things they did was ritually sacrifice their children to Molech) and He gave them 400 years to repent, if there were no people in the city to be destroyed in the first place, the moral objection against God is EVEN WEAKER! He also explains how the book of Joshua is a book in the ancient genre of “Military Text” and how phrases such as “Men and women, and children, and cattle” didn’t mean the literal indiscriminate slaughter of people and animals, but rather it was a military idiom for total conquest of a city or nation. For people who have been bothered by the conquest narratives, this portion of the book will be like a breath of fresh air.
The last couple sections are focused on application and eschatology. The application in Section V is about making this information useful to believers. This is something that I haven't seen other Nephilim books do. This feature really sets it apart from other books on this subject. This isn’t to knock other Nephilim books such as Michael Heiser’s “Reversing Hermon” or Brian Godawa’s “When Giants Were Upon The Earth”, but it is nice to have an application portion of the book, especially if you’re a pastor who does expository preaching. If you’re an expository preacher and you want to go through sections of The Bible at a time, I can imagine that when you get to Genesis 6, you’ll want to talk about the Nephilim. Since preaching usually goes from (1) reading text → (2) Exegesis → (3) Application, if you don’t know what to do in that third step, you’ll be faced with a dilemma. You’ll either give your congregation a bunch of cool theological facts and after the sermon, someone will say “That was an interesting sermon, preacher. But what does that have to do with me?” or you’ll just skip over it. Skipping over parts of scripture is something no preacher ought to do. I believe the theological education in the church is extremely shallow, partly due to preachers doing exactly that. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that ALL scripture is God breathed and is useful. As Michael Heiser likes to say, “If it’s in there, it’s important”.... [Answers to Giant Questions] is a fantastic book and I would love to read it again sometime." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Evan Minton, Cerebral Faith
Answers To Giant Questions is an excellent work in biblical scholarship. If you’re a theology nerd like me who has a particular interest in the Nephilim or The Bible’s primeval history, you should read this book. In the first section of the book, Steadman argues that the Nephilim are the giant offspring of angels and humans having sexual relations. He proves this from the biblical text and shows how the non-supernatural interpretations (which, as he points out were utterly non-existent until around the fourth century A.D) are flawed and cannot account for the biblical data as well as The Angelic-Hybrid view.
In section 2 of the book, he addresses the question of how the Nephilim could have appeared post flood. He looks at the possibility that the Giants could have survived the flood, he looks at the possibility that the Angels who impregnated the women Before the flood repeated their offence after the flood, and he looks at the possibility that maybe someone on The Ark such as Noah, Noah's wife, or one of Noah's sons or the wives of Noah's sons could have carried on the genes of the Nephilim that were dormant for a little while but then resurged later like atavisms in later generations. He looks at all of these possibilities and uses biblical texts and logic to rule them out. The option that he thinks is the most plausible, and he uses extra biblical ancient near Eastern documents to bolster this argument, is that the Biblical Nimrod summoned one of the Fallen Watchers and they used black magic to transform him into a Nephilim.. and so, it was Nimrod being super naturally transformed into a Nephilim that caused the Nephilim to reappear post-flood.
It is a pretty solid work on this topic, and in my opinion, you’ll be doing yourself a disservice if you don’t read it. Like a lot of books dealing with biblical studies and Ancient Near Eastern stuff, this is not bedtime reading. This is a book for serious study. This book will make you think. You’ll need to think. And that’s a good thing. We need to use the brains that God gave us.
He also talks about the war Israel had against the giant clans in their conquest of Canaan, which not only has theological value but also has apologetic value for those who object to the “slaughter of the Canaanites” on Moral grounds. Steadman argues ... that the only people the Israelites really had to kill were soldiers (giant and human) who stayed behind to fight. There were probably VERY few civilians who would have chosen to say (e.g Rahab and her family). So although I argue that God’s destruction of the Canaanites was just on the basis of how utterly depraved they were (one of the things they did was ritually sacrifice their children to Molech) and He gave them 400 years to repent, if there were no people in the city to be destroyed in the first place, the moral objection against God is EVEN WEAKER! He also explains how the book of Joshua is a book in the ancient genre of “Military Text” and how phrases such as “Men and women, and children, and cattle” didn’t mean the literal indiscriminate slaughter of people and animals, but rather it was a military idiom for total conquest of a city or nation. For people who have been bothered by the conquest narratives, this portion of the book will be like a breath of fresh air.
The last couple sections are focused on application and eschatology. The application in Section V is about making this information useful to believers. This is something that I haven't seen other Nephilim books do. This feature really sets it apart from other books on this subject. This isn’t to knock other Nephilim books such as Michael Heiser’s “Reversing Hermon” or Brian Godawa’s “When Giants Were Upon The Earth”, but it is nice to have an application portion of the book, especially if you’re a pastor who does expository preaching. If you’re an expository preacher and you want to go through sections of The Bible at a time, I can imagine that when you get to Genesis 6, you’ll want to talk about the Nephilim. Since preaching usually goes from (1) reading text → (2) Exegesis → (3) Application, if you don’t know what to do in that third step, you’ll be faced with a dilemma. You’ll either give your congregation a bunch of cool theological facts and after the sermon, someone will say “That was an interesting sermon, preacher. But what does that have to do with me?” or you’ll just skip over it. Skipping over parts of scripture is something no preacher ought to do. I believe the theological education in the church is extremely shallow, partly due to preachers doing exactly that. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that ALL scripture is God breathed and is useful. As Michael Heiser likes to say, “If it’s in there, it’s important”.... [Answers to Giant Questions] is a fantastic book and I would love to read it again sometime." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Evan Minton, Cerebral Faith
