There were 12 Tribes. Each tribe’s people were named after their Patriarch. If you came from Asher, you were an Asherite, from Levi a Levite, from Judah a Jew. The Apostle Paul was not a Jew. He said “I am a Benjamite” He was not a Jew. The Jews fought against Israel in a Civil War. Read 1Kings 11-17 to catch you up on the History the traditional church doesn’t deal with.
Don’t be ignorant when debating Biblical matters. You owe it to the Father to use facts.
You wrote:
“One of the BIG!!!! areas of confusion that has been perpetuated by tradional Christianity is that everything is JEWISH. It is NOT!!!!”
What is Jewish is Jewish. I never claimed “everything is JEWISH”.
“There were 12 Tribes. Each tribe’s people were named after their Patriarch. If you came from Asher, you were an Asherite, from Levi a Levite, from Judah a Jew. The Apostle Paul was not a Jew. He said “I am a Benjamite” He was not a Jew.”
He was a Jew. He said so: “Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia.” (Acts 21:39 KJV)
I suggest you study scripture more. St. Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin. That didn’t stop him from being a Jew - far from it, it necessitated that he be a Jew.
“The Jews fought against Israel in a Civil War. Read 1Kings 11-17 to catch you up on the History the traditional church doesn’t deal with.”
(sigh) Israel split into two competing states (Israel in the North and Judah in the South) more than 800 years before Saul (Paul) was born. By the time Saul/Paul was born, the word ‘Jew’ was used for people who followed what we would call Judaism no matter where they lived in the Roman world. I not only know the history of all of this apparently better than you do, but I also know scripture well enough to know St. Paul called himself a Jew - something you apparently did not know.
“Don’t be ignorant when debating Biblical matters. You owe it to the Father to use facts.”
I did. Here’s a fact: St. Paul called himself a Jew. Deal with it.
I suggest you study more before you continue to embarrass yourself by projecting an apparent lack of knowledge onto others who actually know what they’re talking about.
M’kay?
Of course Paul was a Jew.