So, nu, who's a Jew ? (part 8)

Submitted by saltysteve on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 17:00

So, what is special about this folk? And where does it say that these people are special, chosen for some purpose? Where does it say "all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." The Bible, of course.

How could the writers of the Bible have known about Einstein, Marx and Freud, to say nothing of the scores of other major influences? How could they know about 'this one solitary life' , the Jew, Jesus, written about in a famous essay.

"Here is a man who was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another village. He worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty, and then for three years he was an itinerant preacher.

He never owned a home. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never went to college. He never put his foot inside a big city. He never travelled two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He never did one of the things that usually accompany greatness. He had no credentials but himself ...

I am far within the mark when I say that all the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever were built; all the parliaments that ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man upon this earth as powerfully as has that one solitary life."

And more about him later.

So the Bible predicted that these 'chosen people' would be a blessing for the world. How could the writers of the Bible know that, at a time when the Jews were but a small group of people amongst many others in a small part of the world, they were to become a major influence on the world?

How did these writers know that out of all the ancient people such as the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Edomites and Ammonites, only the Jews were to survive as a people? How many Hittites do you know? Is there an Amalekite down your road? Do you know any Canaanites at work? Of course not. Although all of these people were contemporaries of the Jews, none of them have survived - just as the Bible has predicted!

There is a possible answer and one that you should consider as a possibility, and that is that the Bible was written under the influence of one who knew that all of these things were going to happen in the future. We will explore this idea a little later.

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