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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

When you see how long those people lived, they might as well have been immortal. Noah's father Lamech actually lived while Adam was still alive

At the border sacrifice the emperor would say this prayer, "Of old in the beginning there was great chaos without form and dark. The five planets had not begun to revolve nor the sun and the moon to shine. In the midst thereof there existed neither forms nor sound. Thou, Oh Spiritual Sovereign, came forth in Your presidency, and first divided the grosser parts from the purer. You made the heavens and the earth. You made man. All things with their reproductive power came into being."

Sounds kinda familiar

Ok, not familiar with the seven laws of Noah. Do you have the verses for them?

Genesis 9

The Chinese thing is pretty cool. I know most civilizations have flood stories.

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