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Old 11-22-2008, 10:31 AM   #111
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How have Jews been a blessing to other nations?
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They were supposed to be a direct line to God. In particular, they've been a good example for what God expects of us. A lot of the time they did bad things and were chastened. So it seems like they weren't exactly the best direct line. But of course, in the Christian view Jesus was a Jew, so the God to human direct line was actually accomplished in the Jewish people.
Will you please post some specific examples of how Jews have blessed other nations?

I certainly do not believe that God intended to use Jews for good examples. For instance, my thread on slavery at http://www.freeratio.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=255542 at the General Religous Discussions Forum provides good evidence that the Jews set a bad example of how to treat slaves.

I do not consider killing your own people for working on the sabbath, for cursing at their parents, and for practicing the freedom of religion by worshipping other Gods to be setting good examples.

As a side note, do you believe that a global flood occured? If so, will you please start a new thread at the Evolution/Creation Forum and post whatever evidence you have that a global flood occured?
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Old 11-22-2008, 11:02 AM   #112
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How have Jews been a blessing to other nations?
They were supposed to be a direct line to God. In particular, they've been a good example for what God expects of us. A lot of the time they did bad things and were chastened. So it seems like they weren't exactly the best direct line. But of course, in the Christian view Jesus was a Jew, so the God to human direct line was actually accomplished in the Jewish people.
Yahweh has never spoken a single word, or even uttered a grunt, that did not originate from the lips, or from the pen of some totally human source,
Same for Jebus, just a lot of imaginative writers using a legend as their sock-puppet. The so called "direct line to God" has never had anything but imaginative and fallible humans standing in, and speaking in the place of him, on the other end of that "line".
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