10 Strangest Bible stories
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time, according to the Guinness World Records, and it’s packed full of tales, some rather fantastic and others actually quite historical. While it has been through many revisions and translations, there is much historically we can take from it. Some stories, such as hell being named after a rubbish pit, refer to important archaeological sites – in this case Gehenna, a location believed to be in Jerusalem. Others, such as that of a literal scapegoat, explain how phrases that are commonly used in modern times came into existence. Here are just a few of the more bizarre biblical stories you can find.
Human-God interbreeding
Did mysterious superhumans influence God’s decision to send a flood?
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
The says: “The sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.” Their children were god-human hybrids refers to as the Nephilim. God is unhappy about this interbreeding and, “regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.” So he sends a flood that wipes out many of the humans and Nephilim, but not before ordering Noah to build an ark that saved a select few. The biblical story suggests that the breeding between gods and humans was apparently a major factor in God’s decision to send the flood.
