True, quaint theories. the British-Israeli thing can be mostly harmless and quite frankly its out of date
Yosemite -- question, do you believe that the Anglo-Saxons and by extension WAS Americans are descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel? Or just spiritually?
imho it's wise to take the first -- the British concept with a pinch of salt. This was thought up as a justification for the start of British imperialism and sorry, has proven wrong as the British empire while doing a lot of good also helped the Saudis create their kingdom and hence the Sauds sponsor Wahabbi / al Qaeda terrorism and they also fudged over Israel and were instrumental of the first terrorist Islamic state -- Pakistan
But, yosemitest -- I will give your books a read
I in particular in 2007 remember the battles we had on FR against British-Israelism proponents who used it to denote their racist views
They were banned from FR as we don't want those folks -- and note I don't know or believe that you are the same as those, just pointing out something that many B-I proponents use
"do you believe that the Anglo-Saxons and by extension WAS Americans are descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel?
Or just spiritually?"
I'm not sure I understand your question correctly.
If you're asking me
"Do I believe that the Americans who came from Great Britain, the Anglo-Saxons, are physical descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel?"
then my answer is "Yes. I do."
If your're asking me
"Are Americans just spiritual descendants of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel?"
I would ask you, "What difference does it make?"
Either way, Americans are God's people,
IF they OBEY our Heavenly Father.
Both the booklets I referenced cover the subject well. But don't just take the booklet's word for it.
Go to the trouble to
verify the sources given in each of the booklets.
It's not that hard to do.
Usually you can find a hard copy of the source referenced in a library or on the Internet, so just go look for it.
Then after you do it, you become more confident in what you've learned.
Me ... I've bought several hard cover books off of E-Bay just for reference material. But I'm older, and I like real books.
Plus, you have
several witnesses giving you the same information.
Look, this is between you and God. So you should learn it that way.
My opinion is of little value. It's YOUR confidence in what you've learned that's important.
You know when you've reached true information, because it'll leave you satisfied.
It may make you uncomfortable for a while, and it may not agree with what most "churches" have taught you, but you'll know in your mind.
Because it'll give you rest.