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To: Charles Henrickson
"Everyone in the world who is not a Jew, that is, everyone who is not descended physically from the Old Testament patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob--everyone else is a Gentile. It has to do with your physical descent, with your ethnic identity. "

I see error in this statement. It supposes that the 10 sons of Abraham that were not Jewish were no longer sons of their Patriarch Abraham. The origination of the Jews was the seperation of the sons of Jacob after Solomin's stupidity (they called him wise) in taking foreign idol-worshipping wives.

The tribes became the Southern tribes; Judah/Benjamin...the Jews and The Northern 10 tribes; Ephraim or the house of Joseph. These were the ones who were scattered into the world, those that Jeremiah said would be searched for someday as fishes. Those that Jesus sent his disciples after saying they would be "fishers" of men. (Jeremiah 16) Those scattered into the world were "Israel" because they were still sons of Jacob..... these are the "Gentiles" A specific group of people with specific heritage in Abraham. Hence the fact also that the word Gentiles is usually always capitalized..... it's a hidden clue.

3 posted on 12/12/2013 4:17:00 AM PST by high info voter
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To: high info voter
Those scattered into the world were "Israel" because they were still sons of Jacob..... these are the "Gentiles". . . .

What you are saying is just not correct. If you do a search of the word "Gentiles" in the NT, for example, you will find multiple passages where what you say simply cannot be, and not one passage where it must mean what you say. I am certainly well aware of the division of the kingdom and the later dispersion of the northern tribes, but those dispersed Israelites were not the same thing as the "Gentiles."

Your assertion that the Diaspora equals the "Gentiles" is an unusual, if not unique, view. How did you come up with it, or where did you get it from? Do you have any Bible passages or other evidence to back up your claim?

4 posted on 12/12/2013 3:30:37 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (M.Div., S.T.M. in Exegetical Theology, Ph.D. candidate in Biblical Studies)
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