edomites aren't mentioned in the new testament > b-but secret code for edomite wuz... > >a-and edomite infiltrators mi-mistranslated... if the edomites being edomites were so important, why did none of the early church fathers, martyrs, or apologists single them out and warn people against them? why didn't christ talk about the edomite menace, and warn anyone? because no one gave a single shit about royal bloodlines. that autism only mattered to pharisees, like herod's family -- like paul's family -- but paul argued the opposite, that bloodlines didn't matter: just accepting christ was enough to join the kingdom. so which is it: is faith in christ enough to warrant salvation, or was christ just preaching to one race? can an "edomite" not be saved by faith in christ?   > no, jews are stealing that word and changing the meaning. we're going to read all the examples proving you wrong, are you ready? 1/? suetonius, life of claudius 25.4 (1st century bc) > ((( iudaeos ))) impulsore (( chresto )) assidue tumultuantis roma expulit. > "he expelled the jews from rome, who were constantly making disturbances at the instigation of chrestus." claudius took action against the jewish community in rome (not in judea) due to perceived "disturbances over christ"; again, romans recognized jews as a foreign minority, and called them iudeos, referencing the jewish temples and ethnicity flavius josephus, antiquities of the jews 16.6.2 josephus referencing earlier augustan decrees wrote: > "   (((  )))          " (kai peri tn ioudain de tn en alexandreia egrapsen autois diaphylattein ta patria eth). > "and concerning the jews in alexandria, he wrote to them to preserve their ancestral customs." augustus affirmed the rights of jewish communities outside of judea, emphasizing their right to maintain their distinct religious and cultural practices. this was an ethnic minority, called jews.
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