Message from @Andrules
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They often call it "heaven worship" and for them there's a very blurry distinction between God and Heaven
So would they have gotten their “Hebrew” traditions from like the Tower of Babel split?
In fact their word for God is just "Lord of heaven"
Yeah basically
I suppose the first of them may have realized "this tower was a bad idea, I should probably go worship God now and not be an idiot"
Yeah lol
As far as secular knowledge goes, is there an explanation for that?
I know from human migration patterns, everyone migrated from around Turkey and moved to everywhere in the eastern hemisphere.
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
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