Well it particularly doesn't matter because Israel never existed prior to the building of the "2nd temple". Moses, the davidic kingdom, solomons temple, are myths created around 500bc by the first refugee settlers of palestine from babylon, who created the only archaeologically verified civilization there. These clown car evangelicals are trying to double down on a paradigm of lies as the world turns too fast to keep up.
In making such an emphatic statement, you are doing the same thing. Isn't a denial of the existence of Israel prior to the exile a bit too much to prove given the extrabiblical sources and evidence of Israel and the dividic kingdom? And even without that evidence, isn't it still a pretty big claim?
I do wish that evangelicals, who aren't the only valid expression of Christianity, would double down on love instead of any particular paradigm of textual criticism.
There are no extrabiblical sources of a kingdom in israel prior to babylonian exile. There's no archaeological evidence, and not for want of trying either, and the neighboring nations make no mention of its existence.
At least with ancient greek myths like Hercules, he is alleged to have existed in real places. The myths of the jews are even less believable than this.
Great read! Thanks Daniel!
Thank you Wendy! And thanks for adding me to the Tacos group!
Well it particularly doesn't matter because Israel never existed prior to the building of the "2nd temple". Moses, the davidic kingdom, solomons temple, are myths created around 500bc by the first refugee settlers of palestine from babylon, who created the only archaeologically verified civilization there. These clown car evangelicals are trying to double down on a paradigm of lies as the world turns too fast to keep up.
In making such an emphatic statement, you are doing the same thing. Isn't a denial of the existence of Israel prior to the exile a bit too much to prove given the extrabiblical sources and evidence of Israel and the dividic kingdom? And even without that evidence, isn't it still a pretty big claim?
I do wish that evangelicals, who aren't the only valid expression of Christianity, would double down on love instead of any particular paradigm of textual criticism.
There are no extrabiblical sources of a kingdom in israel prior to babylonian exile. There's no archaeological evidence, and not for want of trying either, and the neighboring nations make no mention of its existence.
At least with ancient greek myths like Hercules, he is alleged to have existed in real places. The myths of the jews are even less believable than this.