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You're telling us the Bible's plot, which you know very well, but making no mention of who is directing the movie. The early Jewish tribes had something to prove and something to claim. They yearned for home. This is a people who lost their land in the Exile, and it has affected the Jewish psyche ever since. Even the story of Eden is about lost land.

This plot rings very familiar to us Americans as the Pilgrim story - hey, we need a place to worship, and there's some tribal people in this land who submitted to our authority, and then there was lots of wild empty space. The land is ours for the taking!

That's the documentary the Pilgrims would have directed. The indigenous people have a completely different documentary.

You can believe the Bible is the word of God, but do consider that those words of God still had to use human hands to put ink to parchment. And to me, once human hands are involved, all bets are off.

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Mallory's avatar

Fun fact I learned recently. The same mountain Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac would later be the same mountain Jesus died on the cross. Abraham named that mountain “the lord will provide”. 🤯

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