Why was Yahweh a stay at home Deity?

sk0rpi0n
@op... Look at it this way... India is the land where hinduism and buddhism, (sikhism and Jainism) originated. Just because the holy books of those religions don't make referencss to empires in the western hemisphere, it doesnt mean they ancient hindus and buddhists were unaware of the outside world. The reason being ''holy books'' were not intended to be world encyclopedias or atlases. They were about the spiritual beliefs of specific peoples. The Israelite books were writtn by the israelites and so naturally addressed the Israelite people.

But the Rig Vedas do indeed talk about the same creation as found in Genesis. In fact, even the Popol Vuh has the same creation story. And in China, there has been found the story of the flood on the Oracle Bones. Hinduism came about through different tantric groups seeking to explain God, which they all call "Almighty God".

I simply don't know what the OP expects from groups of people who wrote their lives on papyrus or paper and didn't carve massive structures like pyramids. The height of any civilization is in writing, the buildings came out of that writing, but some people didn't make buildings all the time. The Bible is written on paper and talks about other kingdoms and other places. Did the Israelites need to build things to prove they existed? Their writing is enough to prove it.

God promised that His prophets would come from Israel. The reason for this is so that we would have LESS CONFUSION from false prophets like Mohammad who did not come from one of the 12 tribes of Israel. Can you imagine if God made no such promise and we had prophets all over the place speaking just fragments of the Gospel to fragmented people far across the world?

His plan could still come together by His will and grace, but it makes more sense, and is more expedient that God chose one people, in one place, to receive all they needed to know to spread the Word of God to everyone else.

God wasn't going to wait until the invention of television to begin broadcasting His salvation.

FreeMason
Can you imagine if God made no such promise and we had prophets all over the place speaking just fragments of the Gospel to fragmented people far across the world?

That was what really happened from my point of view. The ones who can look beyond one faith as the perfect truth from god and use it as map will understand what the information means.

The ones who cannot look beyond their own ego and indoctrination will by their own action will not grow and learn. They encrypted revelation to make sure only those who could understand on a higher level would understand it. As I said the sevenfold spirit in revelation is chakras and the usage of chakras is how you create a home for where the spirit dwells. That is the key to everything spiritual.

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God promised that His prophets would come from Israel.

Care to cite the exact chapter and verse?
What about the prophets / holy figures such as Abraham, Enoch, Noah? Do you really believe they were from Israel as well.

The reason for this is so that we would have LESS CONFUSION from false prophets like Mohammad who did not come from one of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Mohammad was a descendant of Abraham, through Ishmael.
Isaiah 42 is a direct prophecy of Mohammads arrival. He was the servant of God who operated in the lands of Kedar, the wilderness (i.e desert) and Sela.... and who shamed the idol worshipers.

NO Israelite prophet operated in Arab lands... and no Israelite prophet shamed the idolaters of Arabia. Only Mohammad did so and he fits Isaiah 42. Christians wont admit it, but that does not change the real facts.