Well, it doesn't actually say that at all. Of course with enough mental gymnastics you can make it say anything you want, but it really doesn't say that. On the contrary, there is nothing but evidence that they are the same people as rule today in the bible. Just look at the OT.
Aside from that, ask yourself, who wrote the OT?
I'll tell you who wrote OT. The self stated Chosen People. Where did they write it? In the self proclaimed Promised Land. Those two facts tell you all you need to know to understand everything.
The entire OT is all about how the specific Canaanite tribes who called themselves Jews were more important than all other people on the planet. It's all about how the land we now call Israel was THEIRS. It's all how those people are superior to everyone else. It writes out separate rules for those people and for everyone else.
I swear. I don't think most of the people who believe that the Bible is the unchanging, perfect word of the Source of All Things have ever actually read the OT. They most certainly haven't investigated all the changes that occurred from the sources that were found in the 20th century that show that things have changed substantially.
Why do Christians believe so strongly in the OT? Jesus said all sorts of things that suggest he was not a fan of YHWH, and yet somehow people believe that he was YHWH (or his only son if you prefer).
At the time of the creation of the bible we got (it changed a HUGE amount during the 500 years after Jesus) there was a ton of controversy about YHWH and the teachings of Jesus. To the point that people who called themselves Christian were killing other people who called themselves Christians over dogmatic differences. The bible we got was compiled and edited by the people who killed all the people who disagreed. SO MUCH was left out that was previously canon for the now destroyed Christian peoples it's ridiculous.
Have you ever studied the beginnings of the Church? Did you know that owning literature that deviated from the official dogma (as written into law by the Roman Empire when it adopted Christianity) was punishable by death? Why do you think so much literature that was not included in our bible was buried in the 4th century AD (Nag Hammadi, DSS, e.g.)? Because to own it was death. The Church we got BURNED ALL THE BOOKS and put to death anyone who disagreed. Those were the people who decided on the bible we got. Those were the people who edited the bible we got (as shown clearly by those unearthed books). It can further be shown that those people (the Roman Emperors) were directly influenced (economically controlled) by the Jews at the time.
There is the teachings of Jesus. There is the teachings of Paul and Peter. There is the official doctrine adopted. None of these things are not the same thing. Indeed, any honest investigation shows that they are substantially different. The only way that people can see them as the same thing is through indoctrination, and a forced adoption of belief that what we have is the unerring divine text. Without that belief it is trivial to see that The Church, and it's insistence on the veracity of the OT (which supports the Jews as the Chosen People) and the teachings of Jesus are completely different.
Well, it doesn't actually say that at all. Of course with enough mental gymnastics you can make it say anything you want, but it really doesn't say that. On the contrary, there is nothing but evidence that they are the same people as rule today in the bible. Just look at the OT.
Aside from that, ask yourself, who wrote the OT?
I'll tell you who wrote OT. The self stated Chosen People. Where did they write it? In the self proclaimed Promised Land. Those two facts tell you all you need to know to understand everything.
The entire OT is all about how the specific Canaanite tribes who called themselves Jews were more important than all other people on the planet. It's all about how the land we now call Israel was THEIRS. It's all how those people are superior to everyone else. It writes out separate rules for those people and for everyone else.
I swear. I don't think most of the people who believe that the Bible is the unchanging, perfect word of the Source of All Things have ever actually read the OT. They most certainly haven't investigated all the changes that occurred from the sources that were found in the 20th century that show that things have changed substantially.
Why do Christians believe so strongly in the OT? Jesus said all sorts of things that suggest he was not a fan of YHWH, and yet somehow people believe that he was YHWH (or his only son if you prefer).
At the time of the creation of the bible we got (it changed a HUGE amount during the 500 years after Jesus) there was a ton of controversy about YHWH and the teachings of Jesus. To the point that people who called themselves Christian were killing other people who called themselves Christians over dogmatic differences. The bible we got was compiled and edited by the people who killed all the people who disagreed. SO MUCH was left out that was previously canon for the now destroyed Christian peoples it's ridiculous.
Have you ever studied the beginnings of the Church? Did you know that owning literature that deviated from the official dogma (as written into law by the Roman Empire when it adopted Christianity) was punishable by death? Why do you think so much literature that was not included in our bible was buried in the 4th century AD (Nag Hammadi, DSS, e.g.)? Because to own it was death. The Church we got BURNED ALL THE BOOKS and put to death anyone who disagreed. Those were the people who decided on the bible we got. Those were the people who edited the bible we got (as shown clearly by those unearthed books). It can further be shown that those people (the Roman Emperors) were directly influenced (economically controlled) by the Jews at the time.
There is the teachings of Jesus. There is the teachings of Paul and Peter. There is the official doctrine adopted. None of these things are not the same thing. Indeed, any honest investigation shows that they are substantially different. The only way that people can see them as the same thing is through indoctrination, and a forced adoption that what we have is the unerring divine text. Without that belief it is trivial to see that The Church, and it's insistence on the veracity of the OT (which supports the Jews as the Chosen People) and the teachings of Jesus are completely different.
Well, it doesn't actually say that at all. Of course with enough mental gymnastics you can make it say anything you want, but it really doesn't say that. On the contrary, there is nothing but evidence that they are the same people as rule today in the bible. Just look at the OT.
Aside from that, ask yourself, who wrote the OT?
I'll tell you who wrote OT. The self stated Chosen People. Where did they write it? In the self proclaimed Promised Land. Those two facts tell you all you need to know to understand everything.
The entire OT is all about how the specific Canaanite tribes who called themselves Jews were more important than all other people on the planet. It's all about how the land we now call Israel was THEIRS. It's all how those people are superior to everyone else. It writes out separate rules for those people and for everyone else.
I swear. I don't think half the people who believe that the Bible is the unchanging, perfect word of the Source of All Things have ever actually read the OT. They most certainly haven't investigated all the changes that occurred from the sources that were found in the 20th century that show that things have changed substantially.
Why do Christians believe so strongly in the OT? Jesus said all sorts of things that suggest he was not a fan of YHWH, and yet somehow people believe that he was YHWH (or his only son if you prefer).
At the time of the creation of the bible we got (it changed a HUGE amount during the 500 years after Jesus) there was a ton of controversy about YHWH and the teachings of Jesus. To the point that people who called themselves Christian were killing other people who called themselves Christians over dogmatic differences. The bible we got was compiled and edited by the people who killed all the people who disagreed. SO MUCH was left out that was previously canon for the now destroyed Christian peoples it's ridiculous.
Have you ever studied the beginnings of the Church? Did you know that owning literature that deviated from the official dogma (as written into law by the Roman Empire when it adopted Christianity) was punishable by death? Why do you think so much literature that was not included in our bible was buried in the 4th century AD (Nag Hammadi, DSS, e.g.)? Because to own it was death. The Church we got BURNED ALL THE BOOKS and put to death anyone who disagreed. Those were the people who decided on the bible we got. Those were the people who edited the bible we got (as shown clearly by those unearthed books). It can further be shown that those people (the Roman Emperors) were directly influenced (economically controlled) by the Jews at the time.
There is the teachings of Jesus. There is the teachings of Paul and Peter. There is the official doctrine adopted. None of these things are not the same thing. Indeed, any honest investigation shows that they are substantially different. The only way that people can see them as the same thing is through indoctrination, and a forced adoption that what we have is the unerring divine text. Without that belief it is trivial to see that The Church, and it's insistence on the veracity of the OT (which supports the Jews as the Chosen People) and the teachings of Jesus are completely different.
Well, it doesn't actually say that at all. Of course with enough mental gymnastics you can make it say anything you want, but it really doesn't say that. On the contrary, there is nothing but evidence that they are the same people as rule today in the bible. Just look at the OT.
Aside from that, ask yourself, who wrote the OT?
I'll tell you who wrote OT. The self stated Chosen People. Where did they write it? In the self proclaimed Promised Land. Those two facts tell you all you need to know to understand everything.
The entire OT is all about how the specific Canaanite people who called themselves Jews were more important than all other people on the planet. It's all about how the land we now call Israel was THEIRS. It's all how those people are superior to everyone else. It writes out separate rules for those people and for everyone else.
I swear. I don't think half the people who believe that the Bible is the unchanging, perfect word of the Source of All Things have ever actually read the OT. They most certainly haven't investigated all the changes that occurred from the sources that were found in the 20th century that show that things have changed substantially.
Why do Christians believe so strongly in the OT? Jesus said all sorts of things that suggest he was not a fan of YHWH, and yet somehow people believe that he was YHWH (or his only son if you prefer).
At the time of the creation of the bible we got (it changed a HUGE amount during the 500 years after Jesus) there was a ton of controversy about YHWH and the teachings of Jesus. To the point that people who called themselves Christian were killing other people who called themselves Christians over dogmatic differences. The bible we got was compiled and edited by the people who killed all the people who disagreed. SO MUCH was left out that was previously canon for the now destroyed Christian peoples it's ridiculous.
Have you ever studied the beginnings of the Church? Did you know that owning literature that deviated from the official dogma (as written into law by the Roman Empire when it adopted Christianity) was punishable by death? Why do you think so much literature that was not included in our bible was buried in the 4th century AD (Nag Hammadi, DSS, e.g.)? Because to own it was death. The Church we got BURNED ALL THE BOOKS and put to death anyone who disagreed. Those were the people who decided on the bible we got. Those were the people who edited the bible we got (as shown clearly by those unearthed books). It can further be shown that those people (the Roman Emperors) were directly influenced (economically controlled) by the Jews at the time.
There is the teachings of Jesus. There is the teachings of Paul and Peter. There is the official doctrine adopted. None of these things are not the same thing. Indeed, any honest investigation shows that they are substantially different. The only way that people can see them as the same thing is through indoctrination, and a forced adoption that what we have is the unerring divine text. Without that belief it is trivial to see that The Church, and it's insistence on the veracity of the OT (which supports the Jews as the Chosen People) and the teachings of Jesus are completely different.