Pardon me. I thought you were the same person I was replying to, and getting a lot of replies from. Luke was not an Apostle as appointed by Jesus, no. My apologies for the mixup.
He is quite literally of the tribe of Judah.... The Lion of Judah. The word means what it means.
Nobody is saying that lol. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the word "Jew", in current usage, means a lot more than just Talmudists to MOST people. On both sides. You're actually making my entire point for me, this is why you need to be specific.
You want to get into a battle over etymology, and how, surprise, words mean different things not only in different languages but in different eras? Your point is moot. When a word comes to mean Israelites in modern usage, especially when Christians themselves embraced the "King of the Jews" moniker over the centuries, then it means that. Jews. You can either clarify your intent and talk about Talmudists, or be intentionally inflammatory. Your choice.
It is not, good lord. We were meant to continue following God's commandments and Jesus stated that repeatedly. All talk and/or interpretation of His ministry into meaning the death of the Law is sourced from Paul.
You're twisting my words. I already said some early believers were from the gentiles. You're simply wanting to ignore the existence of all the Israelites who believed Jesus's teachings and made up the majority of the early church.
The word "Jew" is taken from Judah/Jehudi. The term wasn't born when the Talmud was written, it was literally inscribed in multiple languages on Jesus's cross, and all derive from the word for those from Judah. It's also a generic gentile term at this point, so it now means a lot of things so specificity is crucial.
And just because the Talmud wasn't written down at the time of Jesus, doesn't mean Talmudic/Pharisaical ways weren't already around in His lifetime or earlier, in fact He railed against them repeatedly, and it's essentially why God turned His back on their government, for twisting His laws into their own crazy rules. Talmudists wrote it all down because they panicked when the temple was destroyed, and were afraid of losing memory of their man-made traditions.
What are you talking about? The Bible is literally all about the people of Israel, the Hebrews, the Twelve Tribes, the Jews. Yeshua is a descendant of David. He was called "King of the Jews". Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Galilee, and so on and so forth were all locations in Israel. The Apostles and Jesus followed God's commandments — the Torah — and lived in Biblical Istael. How can you possibly read the Bible and say it's not about Jews? Where does it say it isn't? What Bible version do you even have?
Yes, actually. That's the perfect way to describe them.
Lazy. I asked for your definition. And besides, any Jewish source will immediately tell you that they're the literal Jews/Israelites of the Bible, so aren't you disproving your own point?
Luke wasn't an apostle, he was a companion of Paul's, sort of like his scribe even. I'm not saying there were no gentile in the early church, obviously the arguments between early church leaders in Acts accounts for the fact that many wanted to become Christians/Messianic Jews. Just saying don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
What is your definition of Judaism?
The Roman emperors then proceeded to persecute the earliest Christian churches, scourging God's commandments and even the Saturday Sabbath out of them, forcing Pagan rituals on them. Your point?
The first believers and followers of Christ — aka Christians — were Jewish. The Apostles were all Jewish. You can't lump all of Israel in with the Sanhedrin and Pharisaical "Synagogue of Satan". You might as well say that Congress and the FBI represent us regular Americans.
I bought one to get my citizenship. That was something I wasn't willing to risk. And they had a real mask nazi working that day, barking at us to social distance and at one point she even got so high on her own supply that she snapped at the sound of someone tapping. But other than that, fuck it. I use a bandana if I just don't feel in the mood for a fight because to be honest this year has me exhausted and angry and I genuinely don't want to snap at people... Like 90% of the time I go maskless though.
I laughed at that harder than I should've. Have a dang upvote.
Communism only works on the scale of a single nuclear family household, and only then by parental dictat. Teenagers naturally want to strike out on their own (aka escape communism) if the rules don't suit them and as soon as they can afford it.
Ironic that communists hate the only communism that works.
I've been doing this obsessively for four years, bookmarks and memes and videos, to the point of literal OCD. I don't know what to do with it all and I know it's not in the most organized state. Somebody please send help 😅
Why must we continue to normalize and idolize women who bare everything for a camera and therefore the world? There are more worthy women to fight for, temperate, traditional, beautiful women. And young girls don't need this to be a template for their futures, or their dads to ignore the immorality in it.
To any who would say, "well I wouldn't show it to my daughter." Double standards. You can't pass down morals if you don't have them yourself.
Time traveler confirmed!
Oh my god. Of course.
Look. This will be my last reply in this debate, but they are separate events. You can't look at the probability of having at least one out of 17 wrong, which is what you're doing, and is indeed the 80-90%, and have that same exact probability apply for 16 out of 17 wrong, when each county has independently had that 8 in 9 chance (or more) of being correct. You could look at the results as a whole per year, and see that 4 out of 9 elections, at least 1 was incorrect. And that drops dramatically to 1 out of 9 elections where 2 were incorrect. That chance will continue to drop further and further until you get all the way down to "at least 16 out of 17 voted incorrect". You can't argue statistics, and then completely ignore the actual stats.
And yes. There are behavioral components, but when I argued that point earlier, saying that these counties likely share a similar demographic spread to the USA as a whole – which is why the likelihood is weighted so heavily toward success — you dismissed it. Your argument was initially based on mere odds and chance, with no reasoning as to why there might be any behavioral change. Just chance.
Of course it's "possible", any roll of a set of dice is technically possible. But what you're doing is looking at the overall odds, of them all being right 80-90% of the time, instead of splitting the 17, figuring out their separate, individual chances, and calculating the probability of them as a series of multiple events. It's far more complex than the flat 80% chance that you're trying to say.
What is the statistical chance that all but one of the 17, taken as a group, would suddenly flip like this? Like I said, calculate the odds for each county separately, and then calculate the serial possibility by that. Apparently 12 of the bellwether states have been right 100% of the time from 1984 to 2016, so that's 0/9 times incorrect. But just to be generous to you, we'll say they have a 1/9 chance in being incorrect separately. The remaining five bellwether have been incorrect only one time each, so again, 1/9 chance of being incorrect. And we'll enter the one that DID say "Biden" in as an 8/9 chance. Just for grins. So, 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 x 8/9 equals....
0.000000000000048%.
Yes, who votes for who is far more complex than pure mathematics. But you're the one trying to argue FOR pure mathematics, and you're not even doing it right.
Edit: And yes I know my math is very likely off by some degree, because I should be calculating the probability of having a set where one actually was "correct", but honestly statistics aren't my forte, and that's a lot of extra math. I just know that multiple events need to be calculated. I almost went for only calculating the 16 that said Trump, but even that wouldn't be a perfectly calculated model, and the result was super similar anyway, basically like giving the Biden county 9/9 chance instead of 8/9. I ain't got time to do more studying lol, this was just to show the basic point.
God bless you for such a worthy goal sir, and may He also bless and protect your wife and child 🙏
When you make inflammatory comments on a general public forum without a clear explanation of your target, and then ignore the fact that "Jew", in common modern usage, does very often apply to the Hebrews of the Bible, then it's upon you to clarify. Ask a modern Jew if they're the Jews of the old testament, they'll almost certainly say yes. Ask a modern Christian, who may lack the knowledge of the difference between Jews who follow the Torah alone and Talmudic Jews, they'll say that Jews are the people of God in the Bible.
If you wish to actually get through to folks about the truth, which I do believe you're trying to do, I suggest a change of tack.