How Strong Was Samson really? (prayer, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Israel)

[General Zod]

So Samson was soo strong he could tear down buildings? even when Delilah cut his hair he still had some superhuman strength?

Pretty cool to take a donkey jaw and defeat an army. But only through God of course, it was possible.

When he did his super natural feats the spirit of god was with him, but does it say he was only strong when he needed it? or was there something to his hair that made him Super-Human 100% all the time?

[hunterseat]

After she cut his hair he was easily enslaved (his strength was in his hair) but when his eyes were gouged out and he was chained to the pillars and the party roared all around him he begged God to give him one more bit of strength and God answered his prayer. Samson knocked over the pillars, killing all who were inside, including himself.

Another example of men thinking with the wrong head.

[Huckleberry3911948]

If you have ever worked in a mental institution you would see this sort of thing defies logic
He was an ordinary man that would change mental states and his capacities

[granpa]

Samson =Jonathan = Jonah = Jesus

[granpa]

if you spent a thousand years in the belly of a great than (shark) then you might be really strong too

[Mike930]

Originally Posted by granpa

if you spent a thousand years in the belly of a great than (shark) then you might be really strong too

[hljc]

God called one man Samson to stop the Philistines , as the people of Israel where weak and foreign nations conquered their country with ease ....So Holy Spirit must have made him strong enough to do the job

[granpa]

and resurrected him as Jonah to stop the Assyrians

[General Zod]

Samson was a beast