However, the original text or e-mail was probably before 2014. Because it seems I am still practicing Biblical Judaic orthodoxy.
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I found another contradiction in the Tanach that I did not see before, yes there are many...
After reading the Torah portion, we were reading about Solomon and comparing the books of Kings with the books of Chronicles. I do find it interesting that Chronicles paints Solomon in a more Torah observant light. Whereas, 1 Kings just unleashes its condemnation of Solomon in many ways. I also found it interesting that Chronicles doesn't mention his many wives, nor the idolatrous houses he built for them...
In fact, many of the contradictions of the Tanach deal with the two books of Chronicles.
Well anyways, the contradiction I found this time was the commandment found in the Torah that says..., "When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou; and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; neither shalt thou make marriages with them..."
Yet, this is what we see Solomon doing in 2 Chron 8...
"As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel; of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants, unto this day."
Through my own study, I know that the current Torah was written after the Babylonian captivity. Many scholars agree to this same conclusion by the fact of "what" is in the Torah. Deut 17 is a good example of "Anti-Solomon" passages; whereas, according to other "scriptures" of the Tanach, Solomon did not sin at all for having his many wives (but only for having idolatrous ones), nor for having his gold, nor for having many horses and...
Well, because Solomon did not destroy, but instead employed these non-Jews, it seems like there was no commandment to kill these people to begin with, for the mere sake of wiping them off the face of the earth.
In war, one could easily carry out the commandment to destroy these people, if there was a commandment from HaShem to do such a thing, but Solomon did not do this.
In ancient wars the people oftentimes killed all the males and took the women and young children, so we seem to see this and not a genocide of the Canaanites.
Give me your thoughts...
For this is what "AncientJudaism.org" is all about, we try to find the truth of our people before the Babylonian captivity and the Rabbinical age.
Maregaal
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"Don't forget that Deuteronomy looks back and describes things that occurred in Exodus. And once again, any passage that speaks about people "seeing" the Almighty have to be understood in light of all the passages that say G-d is not physical, has no form, can't be seen, etc. And again, what you or I "read" is not the standard that G-d instituted. He told us that the standard of what we are to believe or not believe about Him is based upon the revelation to all the Jewish people who stood at Mt.Sinai. No Jew reported to their children that we are to understand G-d or relate to Him as physical. This should be fairly easy to understand."
Rabbi, Deut 4 does not say HaShem DOESN'T have a human form, it merely says that NO ONE SAW Him. Why? Because He was in the thick darkness. I am talking about the majority of the people.
Again, when Samuel says...
"And also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent," What is the context? The context is that He is a Spirit and One Who knows everything, thus He makes no mistakes my friend.
Balaam says a similar phrase...
"God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good?"
Balaam doesn’t say, “He has no form,” he merely says that He is not a human.
Even though He is not a human "man," scripture is very clear that He has a human form and that we were made in His image and many prophets have not only seen Him, but also described what He looks like.
There is not a single verse in all of the Tanach, not one, that says "God has no form." On the contrary, the Tanach does display many times that He has a human form, but we are not allowed to draw Him.
Maregaal
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