True Legends: The Technology Of The Fallen Angels On Earth And The Cover-up Of The Pre-Flood World

Ellen White writes, “As Adam came forth from the hand of his Creator he was of noble height and of beautiful symmetry. He was more than twice as tall as men now living upon the earth, and was well proportioned.” —The Story of Redemption, p. 21.

Adam must have been one of those individuals described in Genesis 6:4 as “giants in the earth, . . . mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” Whether or not being “well-proportioned” meant having a head the size of Antinous’ sculpture, Adam would certainly have been an imposing figure among men of today. Had his limbs and other body proportions been double those of modern men as well (with an eight-fold increase in volume and weight), he would have weighed more than 1,200 pounds.

More remarkable than the large size of these antediluvian “men of renown,” however, were the long lives recorded of those we now call patriarchs. Nine of those who preceded Noah attained more than seven hundred years of age; some approached a thousand (see Gen. 5:4-31).

What could one do with such a lifespan? Ellen White writes, “Not with standing the wickedness of the antediluvian world, that age was not, as has often been supposed, an era of ignorance and barbarism. The people were granted the opportunity of reaching a high standard of moral and intellectual attainment. . . . Could illustrious scholars of our time be placed in contrast with men of the same age who lived before the Flood, they would appear as greatly inferior in mental as in physical strength. As the years of man have decreased, and his physical strength has diminished, so his mental capacities have lessened. There are men who now apply themselves to study during a period of from twenty to fifty years, and the world is filled with admiration of their attainments. But how limited are these acquirements in comparison with those of men whose mental and physical powers were developing for centuries.” —Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 82, 83. What about the level of technology before the Flood? “There perished in the Flood greater inventions of art and human skill than the world knows of to day”—The SDA Bible Commentary, Ellen G. White Comments, on Gen. 6:4, p. 1089. The servant of God adds, “More was lost in the Flood, in many ways, than men today know.”

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