[ventana]

LOL. No, the phrase crops up in all sorts of weird psuedo scriptural fringe Christian groups (you know, Sabbath keeper types and the like :-)) Garner Ted Armstrong's father claimed the English were one of the Lost Tribes, others have given the title to Japanese, Icelandians (sp?) The Ute Indians in Utah and others.

Sadly, my sense is that the whole "Lost Tribes" concept is almost purely a cultish corruption of scripture that has crept back into mainstream Christianity because people just didn't know any better. That it crept back into Churches that "knew their Scripture" (NCs) rather than into the folks who "didn't" (Catholics) is pure poetic justice in my view.

If the phrase occured a single time in scripture, I would feel much different.

v.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

If the phrase occured a single time in scripture, I would feel much different.

I wouldn't expect you to "feel" any different no matter what scripture says. It threatens the exclusivity.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

LOL. No, the phrase crops up in all sorts of weird psuedo scriptural fringe Christian groups (you know, Sabbath keeper types and the like :-))

Maybe the phrase should crop up in Catholic groups, you know, the commandment breaker types. :-)

[RobbyS]

James Adair's History of the American Indians (1775) is an interesting piece of ethnology, but he was convinced that
the language of the southeastern indians was related to Hebrew. Of course, he was wrong.