How did the giants survive a global flood?

Assumption. Gen. 2:5, 6 describe a fog that God used to water the earth before any rain. But that was still very early in the creation process. People also assume that people ate only fruit, because God gave them fruit for meat (which just translates to food). I believe God also instructed Adam on which animals he could use for food. We are first given reference to clean creatures in Gen. 7:2 when Noah was gathering animals for the ark. Obviously, that had already been their custom. There were fresh-water rivers then (see Gen. 2:10).

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There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6:4

So if there were giants living amongst men before the 'flood' then how does one reconcile the scriptural accounts of giants after the flood, for example in 2 Sam 21:20 of “a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”

go to youtube and type in fossilized giants and you will see some.

There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6:4

So if there were giants living amongst men before the 'flood' then how does one reconcile the scriptural accounts of giants after the flood, for example in 2 Sam 21:20 of “a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”

Hello glf1,

Why would you not be surprised if Adam and Eve's offspring were all male. That would make no sense. But regardless of this, we have the following scripture which is before the fall and which demonstrates that daughters were also being born:

"Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Noah was the only one without blemish. the scripture says nothing of the daughter in laws of Noahs wife. the corruption (i think the corruption was in the blood) could have came from there.

daughter in laws of Noahs wife

those are famously photographs that were entered into a contest to produce the best looking hoaxes, then passed around on the internet as real. for example:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/giant-skeleton-uncovered-saudi-arabia/

youtube is a great place to find lies, and a frequent source of 'information' for people eager to believe lies. ya gotta have some kind of filter, man.

Your Gen 6:4 is incomplete.

Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

So, your question is technically answered by a better reading.

There are several possibilities:

a) sons of God were again somehow influencing middle east after the flood - thats why Israel was commanded to kill them all without mercy.

b) willful cultivation, like some special clan being cultivated to be a clan of giant warriors for centuries.

c) some "random" genetic mutation in some clan making people to grow extraordinary big.

c) "giant" does not necessarily have to mean "giant body", it was quite a common term for somebody being excellent, powerful and famous (kings, rulers, famous warriors, half-gods etc).

There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6:4

So if there were giants living amongst men before the 'flood' then how does one reconcile the scriptural accounts of giants after the flood, for example in 2 Sam 21:20 of “a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”

They could keep their heads above water ;-)

I think the giants breathed in a lot of air, and they hanged on to trees, or were able to climb to the highest mountain, and those might have helped, and they might have developed filters from plants to breathe those waters

I'm just speculating

That's some speculation..

What do you do with this?

Gen 7:
21) And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
22) All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

well, air-pockets can't help on this one, they did die but how was there even giants after the flood?

There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6:4

So if there were giants living amongst men before the 'flood' then how does one reconcile the scriptural accounts of giants after the flood, for example in 2 Sam 21:20 of “a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”

There were giants in the earth in those days;
Genesis 6:4

So if there were giants living amongst men before the 'flood' then how does one reconcile the scriptural accounts of giants after the flood, for example in 2 Sam 21:20 of “a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”