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Gen 17:9 God said further to Abraham, "Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Originally posted by Gazrok
Abraham had two sons from two different women, technically BOTH are then his descendants. The Christians and Jews take the covenant to refer to Isaac, wheras the Muslims take it to refer to Ishmael. Short of God/Allah coming down and saying, "Okay, okay, I'll clarify, it goes to you!" the area will always be in religious contention until the end of time or religion.
Originally posted by dawnstar
I don't know, buy I have a collection of stamps in a book dated 1931....There is no Isreal, but there is a Palastine,
"A Government under British Mandate. Capital-Jerusalem. First Stamp Issued--1918."
napoleonseries.org
The beginning of the Palestine campaign was well recorded by De Bourienne, Napoleon's private secretary. [7] De Bourienne had been at Brienne with Bonaparte, where De Bourienne's aristocratic family background elevated him well above the petty aristocratic Bonaparte clan. He repressed his jealousy of his master and served him well until Napoleon, as consul, cashiered him for dipping too deeply into the cash box of the First Consul. [8] However, during the Egyptian-Palestine adventure, he served Napoleon devotedly.
Ya know, if ancient history is the determining factor over who gets rights to a certain peice of land, we are all in deep crap!!! We'd go nuts just to find out just who God gave each person land too. And, well, in the meantime, American would morally have to go to whom???
Originally posted by Netchicken
www.christiananswers.net...
The land promised to the Jews is huge, and reaches the Euphrates. The sub section that includes most of what we see as Israel today was called in latter times "Palestine".
Originally posted by Gazrok
But, in THIS case, the two factions involve are BOTH trying to use scripture as the basis for their argument. Yes NC, one could say one faction is twisting the events to support their position, but actually both are simply two different takes on it. A Christian would view the Bible's account as more accurate, whereas the Muslim would cite the Quaran... Not saying either one is right or wrong, they both need to figure out a way to peacefully co-exist there, or else they'll continue to try and wipe each other out.
Originally posted by Netchicken
Ya can't sit on the fence over this and take some humanistic "everyone is right" type stance. The Koran is flat out WRONG. The torah, is the original script, written 1000's of years earlier about their religion and God. There it is correct.
Its akin to trying to say that the Mormans and the Christians are both correct and giving the Book of Morman the same standing as the bible.
It just doesn't wash, In this issue the Koran is based on a lie.
Originally posted by Mokuhadzushi
Didnt you read what i wrote ? Yahweh is a tribal god, and therefore an idol. If someone's wrong, it's the jews by thinking that what an idol promised to them were god's words. Allah as well as God are universal, Yahweh is not.
[edit on 3-12-2004 by Mokuhadzushi]
as posted by Moku
This terrible theological mistake is also at the origin of what is called 'zionism'
Originally posted by Justanotherperson
Aren't you playing with semantics. Palestine refers to a region and would not be like modern states. Regardless the colonialization of Palestine led to the "diaspora" of several million Palestinians.
[edit on 3-12-2004 by Justanotherperson]