Obama was worse than I thought, if he didn't have Trump wired, the day Trump asked Russia to hack an American election, and spy on a presidential candidate...
Trump wasn't even appointed by the Electoral College, before he was asking Russia to spy on Clinton.
This thread is about Gentiles in The Bible, like...
The Egyptian king who killed the greatest king of the Jews, Josiah; because Josiah didn't believe the Egyptian was speaking from the mouth of God.
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Charchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
His servants therefore took him out of that chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died, and was buried in one of the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Luke 17:20-21 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
I've spent so much time studying God's visit to the Gentiles at the first, I haven't thought about your question enough to answer it off the top of my head; and I won't try answering it before I take time to study it.
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.
This thread is about Gentiles, like the one Moses obeyed.
Exodus 18:1, 7, 24 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; And Moses went out to meet his father in law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent. So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.
And this thread is about Gentiles, like the Gentile Moses prayed to...
And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes.
No black eyed peas; and you left out the Japheth? and the Gentiles?
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Genesis 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
and when God made a covenant with Noah and his sons...
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Japheth got a double portion over Shem and Ham...
Deuteronomy 21:16-17 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
In Japanese, Maru also means a protective circle or enclosure of refuge.
The first people to inhabit Japan were called Ainu, and mai means "original man" in some Australian aboriginal languages.
Among the North American Indians, manu became minne, meaning "water" for the Sioux; hence our Minneapolis (city of water) and Minnesota (sky-blue water).
Minnetoba (our Manitoba, Canada) meant "water prairie" to the Assiniboines.
In South America, we find the Nahuatl, managuac (our Managua, capital of Nicaragua) which means "surrounded by ponds." The fabled city, Manoa (meaning "Noah’s water"), was supposed to be the capital of the god El Dorado.
A number of important rivers in South America are derived from manu: The Amazon (named after the Manau), the Manu in Peru, and also the Muymanu, Tahuamanu, Pariamanu, Tacuatimanu, etc. In all of these, manu means "river" or "water."
The Egyptians invented their picture writing—hieroglyphics, we call them—soon after the Flood. Their word for water was a wavy line.
When the alphabet was later developed, that symbol became the letter "m," for mayim, the Semitic word for water. It later became the Greek letter Mu, the Roman letter Em, and our Western M.
The Assyrian name for "rain" was zunnu.
The Roman god, Janus (our January), was originally the Estruscan father god of the world and inventor of ships. This could have easily have been derived from the Hebrew word for "God of Noah," and by the Estruscans, who pronounced this Jah Nu.
The Greek sea-goddess was naiade, which meant "water goddess."
The ancient Norse of the Scandinavians called their ship god, Njord (Niord), who lived at Noatun, the great harbor of the god-ships. Noa in Norse is related to the Icelandic nor, which meant "ship."
The original Sanskrit word for "ship" was nau, which later passed into our English word, navy, nautical, nausea (sea sickness).
(We are indebted to Bengt Sage for the above information. See "Noah and Human Entomology" in Creation, the Cutting Edge, pp., 48-52. The publisher, Creation Life Publishers [Master Books], and "The Evolution Cruncher" aka "The Evolution Handbook."
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Sanskrit (of ancient India) is a basic language, dating back nearly to the time of the Flood. According to the legends of India, Ma-nu was the man who built the boat and then, with seven others, entered it and were saved. Ma is an ancient word for "water." Ma-nu could then mean "Noah of the waters." In Sanscrit, Manu later came to mean "mankind."
The most ancient man in the Germanic tribes was called Mannus.
Mannus was also the name of the Lithuanian Noah.
In the Hebrew, "karat" is the same as "Armenia." The prefix Ar means mountain, so "Armenia" probably means the mountain of Meni.
According to Genesis 8:4, Noah landed on mount Ararat.
The legendary founder of the first Egyptian dynasty was Menes; and Minos was the man who is said to have been the first man of Crete.
The nearby Greeks said that Minos was the son of their god, Zeus, and the ruler of the sea.
The English (as well as all Germanic) words for man comes from the Sanskrit, manu.
The Egyptian god, Nu was the god of waters who sent a flood to destroy mankind. They identified Nu with the rain and the atmosphere.
Summerians taught that Anu was the god of the atmosphere. The rainbow they called "the great bow of Anu."
The Hawaiian word for rainbow is "anuenue."
In ancient Africa, the king in the Congo was called Mani Congo. Later, Mani became the title of respect given to all leading men of the country.
In Japan, manu became maru, a name included in most Japanese ship names.
Chinese mythology taught that Hakudo Maru came down from heaven to teach men how to build ships.
I thought a hoke was the singular version of hokes; which if we're supposed to believe you, are all over Australia: but I never saw the word "hokes" before you used it.
The Quran seemed like Mohammed was pleading for the reader to believe he was in contact with God, then began threatening.
I really found the verse in the Quran that said to ask an Israelite if the Quran sounded like The Bible to be weak, and not at all like God declaring, "Ye are my witnesses, I am God," in The Bible.
But, I don't think The Quran compares with worldly wisdom in literature either.
For instance, when I just read The Art of War, I found myself hanging on every word; because, Lao Tzu doesn't use any extra words.
Every word in The Art of War is integral to understanding the rest of his book.
When I read The Quran, it's like wading through mud. The words don't go down like water. I have to force myself to read the Quran.
I've been trying to force myself to read The Quran for years. I still haven't finished it.
I've read the whole Bible through so many times; but, The Quran doesn't read like a holy book to me: it seems contrived.
The Quran doesn't even compare with The Art of War, which claims no divine inspiration.
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