It’s Mine Because, “The Bible Tells Me So”

A stranger walks up to your house, rings the doorbell, and you answer the door. “Hi”, he says, “I’m Jeff and I need to let you know that, well, the house you’re living in, is actually mine.” You start to laugh and then realize that Jeff is serious so you inquire how your house could possibly be his. He tells you that years ago, his great grandparents bought the property and built the original structure that you refer to as your house. You tell him, that you see where he’s gone wrong because this property has been in your family for three generations. “But it was my family’s before it was yours.”,he retorts.He shows you an actual deed as proof that the property is, in fact, his. “Ahh”, you tell him, “That’s the problem. Your deed is no longer valid. Since the property was originally owned by my ancestors and my grandparents just claimed legal ownership by historicity.

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The Silence of God

 

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A question I recently received is why has God (from a Christian, perhaps Jewish perspective as well been so quiet to human kind for so long? The idea being, via the question, is that humans have walked the Earth for over 100,000 years and it seems odd to this person that God only began speaking with us recently (2,000 years ago). But that’s not exactly true, is it? From the Judeo-Christian perspective, at least in the bible, God was present in the lives of his chosen people and until, possibly 400 years before the birth of Jesus, where, in the Old Testament that God became silent.

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