Posted on 10/07/2020 2:47:49 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ll definitely make an effort to spare Judaism, if only because that’s ultimately what God the Father would have wanted. However, I am NOT too fond of them after that bit. And if you guys do anything to attack us... well, let’s hope it doesn’t come to that, I’ll leave it at that.
600,000 is too large for when scholars date the Exodus. If you subscribe to the Hyksos hypothesis, an Egyptian historian states 200–300,000 Hyksos were expelled and resettled in Jerusalem. Perhaps there were multiple Exoduses? But the archeological record does not support Manetho’s account, and associating the Israelites with the Hyksos may have been Manetho’s anti-Jewish sentiment - he hated Jews, and the Hyksos are not a flattering group to be associated with.
Between 400 B.C.E. and the Roman invasion, the worldwide Jewish population grew from under 100,000 to about 1.5MM and by 300 A.D. was reduced to only about 10–20,000 people.
The Bible places the population at around 1.5 million yet the remains do not confirm it, the food production systems of the time would not support that large a population
Based on archaeology, you have a population of 60,000 in the early kingdom rising to about 400,000 at the end of the period. This would include Hebrews, Philistines, Canaanites, and Phoenicians.
The hill country under Samuel's leadership prior to the kingdom is estimated to have contained about 40-60,000. Phoenicia was more populous; likely Philistia was also. The hill people defended their territory most often by ambushes of the Philistine troops in difficult terrain. On the plains the Philistine chariots were dominant, but not so much in the hills.
Jesus could not have been just a "prophet" - He accepted people worshipping Him.
You either call Him God or you, ZC, call him a charlatan. No prophet-business
Ugh.
True that every Christian would already keep the laws that are called “Noahide” , but not as a “Ben Noach”. nor as an attempt at Righteousness conferred upon Gentiles by Rabbis. Christians would keep them be cause they are for the most part s scriptural and even re-iterated in the NT. Our Righteousness is given us as a gift, by Messiah, of whom it is written, “By His knowledge shall my Righteous servant justify the many”. As for being a loser, you are right. I am a loser, I am a sinner and have failed God, but have found Hesed, grace, through the Righteousness of His Son. I do not denounce “another religion” i call upon those who practice that religion to be consistent with it, and accept Messiah and the New Covenant which Jeremiah promised. “My people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me the fountain of Living waters, and hewn out cisterns for themselves, which can hold no water”. Such is Rabbinism, a false religion that Moses, Ezekiel or Jeremiah would never recognize.
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