One branch to Europe, one to Africa, and one to the Far East.

They even performed the same sacrifice as the ancient Hebrews until 1911

Wow. So sacrificing sheep and stuff?

Yep

It's called the border sacrifice

It's done at a huge temple in Beijing. Which is not at the border

So what could it be referring to? The border between heaven and earth maybe

上帝

Shang di

Sounds pretty close to El shaddai

God chose the Jews instead, I think not because they were better, but because they were worse. They needed more help

Notice how in the Bible they are always screwing up and descending into polytheism

That is neat.

Well yeah lol

Just when you think they got their act together, they do it again

Goober bunch of Jews lol

But they still were the like the only ones that seemed to really follow the directions anyways.

If you have two sons, and one is good but the other is bad, who do you give more rules to? The bad one. You don't have to tell the good one what to do, he just does it.

God didn't give 500+ rules to the non-Jews. He gave them seven.

No idols. Don't curse God. Establish courts. Don't murder. Don't commit adultery. Don't steal. Don't eat from a live animal.

Except, everyone else did all those things he told the Jews not to do.

In Judaism, nonJews are considered righteous if they just follow those seven, and have a place in "the world to come"

Yeah, like wear clothes made from two different fabrics

Like child sacrifice and everything.

Well it's pretty clear, in "don't murder" that you can't sacrifice children

Well those rules were really to distinguish them from the world. The fabrics.

Yeah lol

Of course a lot of other civilizations broke those rules

The rules of don’t murder apply to everyone. Were probably taught by Adam and Eve.

Yeah

The rest of the list is really a set of rules to set them apart from everyone else.

About to drive home. I’ll get back to this in like 30 minutes.

The only one of those rules that was new is the courts. The other six existed since Adam

Before we get to talking past each other. Which seven are you talking about? Like the seven deadly sins? Being Protestant, I default to the 10 commandments.

Commandments as the rules for everyone.

The other rules are basically to set up a society like God wants, that’s separate from the rest of the sinful world and easily recognized.

Seven laws of Noah. Basically the commandments before the commandments

The commandments given to Noah after the flood

This is called the Eight Immortals

Eight people sailed on a boat from heaven to create China