RE: Why are other civilizations ignored in the Bible?
February 18, 2014 at 6:24 am
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2014 at 6:31 am by Sword of Christ.)
(February 15, 2014 at 11:56 pm)catman Wrote: If the Bible is the word of God then why is it only focused on one specific region of the entire planet?
The idea was to get the chosen people into shape so the Messiah would then emerge from them and lead the entire Gentile world to God. This is prophesied to happen in the Old Testament, even the enemies of the Jewish people and their former oppressors in Egypt
Quote:Was there nothing going on outside of the Middle East worth mentioning? The Han Dynasty maybe?
The Middle East, Babylon and Egypt was essentially their civilized world they won't have know much about what was beyond it. Ethiopia seems to get a mentioned quite a lot in the Bible though.
http://www.openbible.info/topics/ethiopia
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