Inerrant Lie #29

Another lie from "God's ineffable, inerrant word":

The book of Deuteronomy is (for the most part) a recount, given by Moses, of the events which he experienced with the children of Israel in the forty years he wandered with them in the wilderness between Goshen and Shittim; and a refresher course on the canon of law which was delivered to Moses purportedly by the LORD, after Moses eloped with the children of Israel from Egypt. In rehearsing their shared exploits on the east side of Jordan to the people he led out of Egypt (prior to allegedly being whacked- out and buried by the LORD his God), Moses says to the people, "For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants… [Deuteronomy 3:11a]."

This lie-- like the one told in Numbers 31:7 about having slain "all the males of Midian"-- comes back to take a bite out of Moses’ veracity. Everyone's heard of the “champion… of the Philistines, named Goliath;” and how little Davey (just before exchanging holy vows with king Saul’s son, Jonathan) shot him down with a pebble from a brook and launched by a sling: in the time of the kings; long after the conquest of the promised land; and likewise after the times of the judges. Such is the fate of giants who bring spears and swords to gunfights. Yet even the killing of Goliath wasn't the end of the lineage of giants “Moses the man of God” claims Og was.

Perhaps it is in the interest of protecting the integrity of that mighty “god to Pharaoh [Exodus 7:1]”-- Moses “the man of God”-- that the scribe who recorded Davey's encounter with Goliath chose not to call the “champion of the Philistines” a giant. However, this fig leaf (if such it is) is likewise uncovered by posterity, when the King of the Jews goes to war with the Philistines years later.

Purportedly, in four separate battles with the Philistines, David's army encountered four sons of Goliath; and killed them all. Of these encounters, 2 Samuel 21:22 says, "These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants."

Obviously, Moses either didn't know enough about the lineage of the giants to speak authoritatively on the matter; or he was too busy rallying the children of Israel for the coming conquest of the promised “holy land” to tell the truth about it. Either way, according to the account of later events: it was a lie to say, “only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants.” Either that, or David's scribes lied about Goliath and his children.