What is scripture may I ask? We have 3 Hebrew versions of the Tanakh. The Masortes, the Dead sea scrolls and the Septuagint.
If age is the argument here, the Septuagint or Greek translation was actually created from some of the oldest writing of the Hebrew Tanakh at the time.
Moreover...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_canon
One isnt going to take the greek version of the Hebrew version. The tanakh doesnt have it and the dead sea scrolls doesnt have it. Not to mention that its not the law
You DO know I was making a contrast, right?
Did this contrast have anything to do with Saul being called a fake jew? Because I dont remember that part in there but maybe you can make your contrast more clearer?
Yet Esther is in the Septuagint, which was translated from older scrolls than the ones found in the Dead Sea.
And who said anythign about holding precedence over the Law? If anything, It's verifying what the Law states.
Leviticus 19:33-34
Esther is not in the dead sea scrolls which was a group of people from the house of Israel. Thus they were following every book we have in the OT except Esther for some reason. Not to mention that it doesnt hold precedence over the law
Oh and does Leviticus 19:33-34 say the foreigner is now an Israelite? Or does it say that the foreigner would be treated in the same way as an Israelite? Because these are two different things of course.
The Most High himself said the following in Ezekiel 44:9 and 47:22-23
Ezekiel 44:9 mentions foreigners
Ezekiel 47 mentions foreigners as well as treating them the same as an Israelite born
It doesnt say they become Israelites especially since it continues to call them foreigners
So were the Egyptians who left Egypt with the Israelites NOT considered Israelites in Exodus 12:37-38?
No they were not. Thats why in verse 38 it differentiates them by saying "MANY OTHER PEOPLE WENT UP WITH THEM.... In each of your verses that are supposed to be supporting your stance, its differentiating Israelite from foreigner. Not in the way they're treated, but just the bloodline. Not everyone is a son of Jacob friend.
Even though the Most High said the following...
Exodus 12:41-50
Nowhere does it say they become Israelites. Just that they are one in the same (in treatment) as Israel. But Israelite refers to a PHYSICAL son of Jacob. That doesnt mean that a person cannot come and be as an Israelite abiding by the God of their ancestors(Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob). What Im referring to is that they're not a son of Jacob.
More commandments from Adonai.
Notice a pattern? These strangers/foreigners had to become circumcised in order to be amongst the Israelites and partake with them, even during Pesach.
The pattern I notice is that all your passages differentiate ISRAELITE (son of Jacob) from foreigner (not son of Jacob). Not that these people live by a different law when worshiping the Almighty of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Not that these people are considered less important than the sons of Jacob. Not that these people will be rejected for not being sons of Jacob. Just that they are not sons of Jacob. And each one of your passages made it abundantly clear by differentiating them by calling one set "foreigner" and the other set "native born" or "Israelite".
Lol i've been hitting you with rock solid proof straight from scripture AND history.
I wouldnt call you telling me that the same law applying to the foreigner and Israelite means that the foreigner is all of a sudden an Israelite as "rock solid proof". I also wouldnt call quoting Maccabees and Esther as "rock solid proof" either. But all in all an Israelite is a son of Jacob. I dont get whats so hard to understand about it but I guess if you want to make it harder than it has to be, go with your
THEORY.
Yet, you're using conjecture to deflect what I'm showing you. Again, one has to acknowledge that Judah was the most imporant tribe the Most High created. Considering he spared them longer than the Northern kingdom, placed the temple and holy city within the kingdom of Judah, gave them possession of Benjamin AND the Levites (who had no land anyways), allowed them to return to the promised land and rename it Yehuda, made them the tribe of the Messiah while established David's throne eternally through them etc.
And yet nowhere in the OT is one called a "Fake" for not following the law of God Almighty despite many instances where it could have happened. None of what you said here changes this fact and the fact that nowhere in the law or the prophets does it say foreigners will become sons of Jacob. What it does say is that they will become AS the Israelite. But that is in treatment and responsibility that comes with worshiping the God of Abraham. This is open to people of all backgrounds. But they wont just hop up and become sons of Jacob without the bloodline.
And Judaism wasn't around during the writing of Revelation??? Lol! 2nd Maccabees alone in which the term Ioudaismos (literally Judaism) appears was written BEFORE even one scroll of the New Testament ever existed.
Well that word is not "literally Judaism". What it is referring to is the way that the jews followed. This way was not Judaism. Nowhere did Moses instruct Israel to follow Judaism. Nowhere did Abraham instruct Isaac to follow Judaism. Same with the prophets and the instructions they gave on the behalf of their God.
So try again friend. If you're going to give it another go, go ahead and go the law and exemplify where Moses instructed the house of Israel to follow Judaism. If you cant, well my point is proven.