For some reason he picked a guy named Abraham to make a pact with, saying he'd bless the guy's descendants. Hence the term Abrahamic religion. The Israelites were those descendants, so they were the ones he was duty bound to bless.
Since his decisions are always supposed to be right, they have to be justified somehow. He can burn a town for being inhospitable and committing sodomy, but he can't do anything about his people using other people as chattel, except put a few restriction on it. He even makes a loophole for his restriction on enslaving other Israelite men.
Since his decisions are always supposed to be right, they have to be justified somehow. He can burn a town for being inhospitable and committing sodomy, but he can't do anything about his people using other people as chattel, except put a few restriction on it. He even makes a loophole for his restriction on enslaving other Israelite men.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
