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Galatians 3 19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made... 14 The law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

Wow this thread is alarming. The original post... isn't wrong. Judah is part of Israel, but not every Israelite is a Jew. That's like saying every dog is a Chihuahua. I would venture to say that if a person doesn't put a difference between Jews and Israelites, they can't possibly understand...

Probably not. There are many people who cannot (or do not) differentiate between Scripture and my-interpretation-of-Scripture. Perhaps they don't try to interpret Scripture. Perhaps they are in the habit of relying on others to do this for them. That isn't even a bad thing! But if you're...

Can you expand on this? I've read somewhat on the religion of Egypt/Kemet and Nubia and Kush, and I didn't identify much of anything in common with the Bible?

This is explicit in the Bible. No quarrels from me. The hypothesis that Moses' source material came from the Edomites/Kenites (which is not my idea) is based on critical analysis of the text of Genesis paired with history, archaeology and comparative religion studies. In the Bible, there is...

It's a sphere... you just have a limited way of looking at it. ;) Also, hello. -Jarrod

You don't need a verse for the meaning of an English word. The tool for that is a dictionary. If it meant immortality PLUS invulnerability, it would say so.

You know what I find interesting? The language describing the flood is very similar to the language describing the creation. It seems like the story is an undoing of the creation, and then a re-creation.

Paul says in two places that genealogies aren't important (1Timothy 1:4, Titus 3:9). One of Jesus' major doctrinal points was that a man's heredity is proven by his actions (John 8), and the true children of Abraham are the ones who act like Abraham. So, if genealogies are unimportant and...

I'm not Rella, but... they aren't the same, and they both claim to trace Jesus' lineage through Joseph. Additionally, Matthew uses a series of names that look very suspicious... he basically re-iterates the names of the patriarchs in the generations just before Jesus. Matthew's genealogy seems...

There's a little more to it than that. In Genesis, Ham's son Canaan is cursed. For the most part, the people that were marked for extermination in the books that come later are the descendants of Canaan. This seems to be the fulfillment of the curse.

I'm sorry to hear it. I do strive to speak plainly. I feel an obligation to respond in topics that I've started. shrug

Sarcasm, eh. This is not the "got 'im" that you think it is. I literally said this in my last post. You seem to have a problem with me. I would invite you to use the forum's block function if that's the case. You aren't actually interacting anyway, just repeating yourself at this point...

Haha it's more like the red herring. We can't stop talking about this but it isn't actually that important. The point is that Genesis is a compilation of works and they aren't necessarily in chronological order!

It's a mysterious verse. Did Paul know Enoch? probably not... some people think Paul was talking about himself, his own vision. I don't think anybody knows for sure.

Yes, Jude 1 quotes from the pseudepigraphal book of Enoch, which tells all about Enoch ascending to the third heaven and being given a tour of the heavens, and some prophecies. Jesus is The Word and existed in the beginning. (John 1:1) Yes, the Word of the Lord came to many of the Old...

The kingdom of God is at hand.

You're basically just saying you want to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to keep and which to discard.

If you get rid of the Old Testament, you also get rid of the Jewish claim on that land. Sure you wanna dismiss all that?

I don't remember it working like that in the Old Testament.