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My friend here is the true lesson of Gentiles 101: Yes you are correct that words and terminology in the bible offers much wisdom to understanding undeniable truths as laid out in Elohim word. However here is the problem this word was used by the translators for bias purposes. Unfortunately Indo-Europeans were racist and during the early 1600 Jews and Afrikans were not accepted as part of the saved race like them. One accuse of killing Yashua the others pagans, ape like and not worthy of salvation only slavery.
These attitudes persisted in Christian preaching, art and popular teaching of contempt for Jews over the centuries. In many Christian countries, it led to civil and political discrimination against Jews, legal disabilities, and in some instances to physical attacks on Jews which occasionally ended in emigration, expulsion, and even death.
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then, as now, Jews have to be reminded intermittently that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live."Christianity and anti-Semitism: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I want to make it clear that all Christians including popes and others in the Catholic Church did have mercy on the Jews but not the major population especially the Anglo-Saxon!
Thus many of the Jewish rabbis and the early Christian fathers linked Ham's descendents with dark skin, the mark of Noah's curse. We have statements to this effect from Origen (c. 185-254), Augustine (354-430) and Ambrose of Milan (339-397.) The curse on Canaan, which probably referred to the Middle Eastern political situation in the 10th century BC, was now interpreted by some as a perpetual curse on Ham's descendents.
By the late 1600s, the curse of Ham was well entrenched as divine sanction for slavery. In colonial America, the belief that Ham was black, and that Noah's curse was race-related, was widely subscribed to in both the North and South. From the Straight Dope Science Advisory Board: What's up with the biblical story of drunken Noah? (Part 2)
Well what does the word "Gentiles" in Hebrews actually mean:
IT is unfortunate that most people have so many mistaken ideas about their religion, due largely to the many mistranslations of words in the commonly-used King James Version of the Bible. One of these mistaken ideas is that most of the people of the United States and Western Europe - in fact, nearly all the Christians in the world - are Gentiles. You hear many of them - even clergymen, who should know better - say, Im just a Gentile, saved by grace. I think it is high time that we learned something about one of the most mis-used words, Gentile.
The word Gentile is not even once used in any Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament, for the good reason that there is no such word in Hebrew, nor any word which corresponds to it. Everywhere you find the word Gentile used in the Old Testament, it is a mistranslation of the Hebrew word GOY, which means NATION.The plural form of it is GOYIM. Since it means nation, why didnt they translate it correctly? Sometimes they did; but for the most part, they translated it to fit the official doctrines of the church of their day, no matter what violence that did to the true meaning of the word. The church hierarchy had long since determined what its doctrines should be: and if the Bible didnt agree with them, so much the worse for the Bible. Men were still being burned at the stake for heresy, in those days, and heresy meant any religious idea which differed from the official doctrines proclaimed by the bishops. So the translators did the best the Church would allow them to do. Let us take some examples.
. . .Again, in John 11:50, we find that the Jewish High Priest, Caiaphas, was plotting with the chief priests and Pharisees, to murder Jesus Christ; and Caiaphas told them, it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole ETHNOS perish not. Nothing could have pleased this evil Jew more than for all the Gentiles to perish - using the word Gentile as we do today. Therefore, the translators had to translate ETHNOS correctly, as nation. Yet in many other places they mistranslate it Gentile.Dr. Bertrand Comparet: THE ENSIGN MESSAGE
Now I notice that there is one Scripture Gen 10:5 that you and the above writer seem to overlooked so I will let all read it and see that Elohim only mention this group of people as Gentile so speak but the word is still incorrect and the correct word should be Greek speaking people. Shall we look:
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Now to prove my point notice the word Gentiles is used and the word nations so should this say isles of the nation in their nations of course not let's look at some more evidence:
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations. Gen 10:20
These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. Gen 10:31
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory. And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles (Heathen nations). Isa 66:18 -19
Now here are the facts on Elisha the son of Javan (known as the father of the Greeks, and Romans and related to Europe) was specifically called Ethos or Greek speaking people in Gen 5:10 and the other two texts dealing with both Ham and Shem was not. Then to show consistency Yahweh call that all nations and tongues will see His glory and told history that Israel would be scatter among these nations Tarshish (Spain), Pul (regions in Afrika), Lud (Afro-Asiatic regions), Tubal (Russia), Javan again (Greeks and Ionians), and finally Isles (coastland or regions not yet heard of) and the truth of His Commandments will be taught by the faithful true Jews.
Also let me correct one false misunderstanding Canaan and his children was given the special privilege of being Yahweh's chosen first and yes he was a black brother:
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. In the same day YAHWEH made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Gen 15:13-16, 18-21
But Elohim came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Yahweh, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation? Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this. And Elohim said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Gen 20:3-6
Finally, I specifically used a racist White Supremacist to prove that what he wrote in this sense it correct and accurate as to the true meaning of the word "Gentile," except in Gen 5:10 it meant Greek speaking people related to Javan the Father of the Greeks and Ionians! Well that the end of Gentile 101 and more!
Blessings,
stinsonmarri