NO where do I deny were called Jews. After all, they are from the tribe of Judah, and it was the only one to survive.
It is them referring to their faith as Judaism which I have a problem with.
Nowhere will you find in the Scriptures the word Judaism
They were all followers of the Mosaic Law.
Judaism was the bastardized faith created during the quiet years by the Pharisees.
The followers are called Jews, because the Southern Kingdom was the only one to return, and all who were part of the Southern Kingdom became known as Jews. However, that has to do with their DNA and location, not their religion.
God gave Moses the Law, and it became known as the law of the God of Israel, and thus the Hebraic faith.
Not Judaism. Judaism is what the Pharisees set up that God had a HUGE problem with.
Judaism was the bastardized faith created during the quiet years by the Pharisees.
>On John the Baptist being the last of the line of Aaron, very well researched and thought out. Which I will look more into. I thank you for what you’ve posted.
And, yes, I agree on the difference between “Hebraism” and “Judaism.” I think the author of the book of “Hebrews,” with all that is taught there, would agree with what you have here.
I do wonder, however, why you haven’t said more about the “bastardized faith by the Pharisees.” Surely you must know that beimg bastardized. it has also been “paganized?”
I refer to the “Babylonian” Talmud, and Kabbalah, the latter an occultic brew of pagan mysticism and magic, conjured up by the Pharisees after the fall of Jerusalem, 70AD. Now being passed off under the name of “Judaism.”
Which neither John the Baptist, nor Jesus, taught.