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Xeven
I am a Jew and so are you!
Xeven
How can god have a chosen people when DNA proves we are all from same Origin? Even bible agrees. Adam and Eve duh...
I am a Jew and so are you!
Rapha
SadistNocturne
I'm curious...do angels actually come down and bubble wrap dangerous objects for your protection?
What, like bubblewrap the razorsharp skin dust that covers everything in Tartarus ?
Or bubblewrap the giant bone ravens or the Tree of Death in the black desolate landscape of Hades ?
No, i am on my own, exposed to all harsh elements and fellow elementals.
Off post side note.
Events are really going to heat up now, in this plane and all other worlds running parallel to this one.
Xeven
How can god have a chosen people when DNA proves we are all from same Origin? Even bible agrees. Adam and Eve duh...
I am a Jew and so are you!
So God separated the family of Abraham from the rest of the world by giving them a set of laws about daily life and about ritual purification that they had to adhere to if they wanted to be forgiven of their sins. The laws about daily life they broke showed them they were sinners and needed forgiveness.
Romans 7:7 Shall we say, then, that the Law itself is bad? Of course not! But it was the Law that made me know what sin is. If the Law had not said, "Do not desire what belongs to someone else," I would not have known such a desire....7:13 But does this mean that what is good caused my death? By no means! It was sin that did it; by using what is good, sin brought death to me, in order that its true nature as sin might be revealed. And so, by means of the commandment sin is shown to be even more terribly sinful.
Then with Abraham's descendants:
Genesis 12:1-3 The LORD said to Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you. I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, But I will curse those who curse you. And through you I will bless all the nations."
Later:
Exodus 24:7 Then he took the book of the covenant, in which the LORD's commands were written, and read it aloud to the people. They said, "We will obey the LORD and do everything that he has commanded." Then Moses took the blood in the bowls and threw it on the people. He said, "This is the blood that seals the covenant which the LORD made with you when he gave all these commands."
So not just all the animal sacrifices and the laws about ceremonial purity but also through the lineage of their kinds (Jesus was a descendant of David from both his mother and father's sides).
1 Kings 8:17 And Solomon continued, "My father David planned to build a temple for the worship of the LORD God of Israel, but the LORD said to him, 'You were right in wanting to build a temple for me, but you will never build it. It is your son, your own son, who will build my temple.' "And now the LORD has kept his promise. I have succeeded my father as king of Israel, and I have built the Temple for the worship of the LORD God of Israel. I have also provided a place in the Temple for the Covenant Box containing the stone tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt." Then in the presence of the people Solomon went and stood in front of the altar, where he raised his arms and prayed, " LORD God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You keep your covenant with your people and show them your love when they live in wholehearted obedience to you. You have kept the promise you made to my father David; today every word has been fulfilled. And now, LORD God of Israel, I pray that you will also keep the other promise you made to my father when you told him that there would always be one of his descendants ruling as king of Israel, provided they obeyed you as carefully as he did. So now, O God of Israel, let everything come true that you promised to my father David, your servant. "But can you, O God, really live on earth? Not even all of heaven is large enough to hold you, so how can this Temple that I have built be large enough?
Under Solomon the nation got the closest to this ever. The story of the Queen of Sheba for example. By the time Jesus came they had so lost the plot that not even the 12 apostles recognized the Messiah and what He was there to do - at first. It wasn't till a few days after Jesus resurrection that they started to realize what on Earth had happened.
1Kings 8:41 "When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple, listen to his prayer. In heaven, where you live, hear him and do what he asks you to do, so that all the peoples of the world may know you and obey you, as your people Israel do. Then they will know that this Temple I have built is the place where you are to be worshiped.
Luke 24:13 On that same day two of Jesus' followers were going to a village named Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking to each other about all the things that had happened. As they talked and discussed, Jesus himself drew near and walked along with them; they saw him, but somehow did not recognize him. Jesus said to them, "What are you talking about to each other, as you walk along?" They stood still, with sad faces. One of them, named Cleopas, asked him, "Are you the only visitor in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things that have been happening there these last few days?" "What things?" he asked. "The things that happened to Jesus of Nazareth," they answered. "This man was a prophet and was considered by God and by all the people to be powerful in everything he said and did. Our chief priests and rulers handed him over to be sentenced to death, and he was crucified. And we had hoped that he would be the one who was going to set Israel free! Besides all that, this is now the third day since it happened. Some of the women of our group surprised us; they went at dawn to the tomb, but could not find his body. They came back saying they had seen a vision of angels who told them that he is alive. Some of our group went to the tomb and found it exactly as the women had said, but they did not see him." Then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said! Was it not necessary for the Messiah to suffer these things and then to enter his glory?" And Jesus explained to them what was said about himself in all the Scriptures, beginning with the books of Moses and the writings of all the prophets.
Matthew 27:24 When Pilate saw that it was no use to go on, but that a riot might break out, he took some water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for the death of this man! This is your doing!" The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!" Then Pilate set Barabbas free for them; and after he had Jesus whipped, he handed him over to be crucified.
Xeven
How can god have a chosen people when DNA proves we are all from same Origin? Even bible agrees. Adam and Eve duh...
I am a Jew and so are you!
How can we all have sprung from one set of people anyway.
That is serious hillbilly stuff, and way too much inbreeding to be possible.
the2ofusr1
reply to post by bastion
Of course He used men ! ..Where would you think would be the best place to get message from God ? Maybe His creation ? Maybe He has the message inside the Quanta . Or maybe the quark or querk . How about tea leaves or maybe empty trash cans . If you were The God that created every thing ,where or what mode would you use to give your message to man ?