Have you ever considered why the tallest men in First Samuel were decapitated? Why did the tallest guys lose their heads? Off with their heads! Well, the biblical author is making a theological point that we must not miss. He is showing us how one of the greatest promises ever made by God in Scripture is fulfilled. They lose their heads so that we do no lose hope.
Read MoreIf everything that the LORD God made was good (טֹ֖וב), beneficial and helpful to humanity, evaluated as such by His own mind (Genesis 1:31), then how are we to understand that one of His creatures—the serpent--was crafty? The term “crafty” is naturally understood as a negative trait. How, then, can we evaluate something negative as positive, as “good”? Did a good God create evil?
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