there must be thousands of tall tales about the jews out there barely making sense, even to the jews themselves. but they'll never mind as long as the stories contribute to the national coffers or individual income, like what's happening in hollywood.
if you are going to talk about prophecies and history, you must remember that the nation israel itself is relatively young compared to the old masters babylonia, egypt, sumeria, india, the whole mesopotamian civilizations. the official history of israel only started after they were returned from babylonia.
the trouble for people is believing all the text in the old testament, which was itself created and compiled only after they became officially a nation. to bolster their statehood, they included myths that made it appear like they had a long history before they were conquered by the assyrians and the babylonians. that is just so farther from the truth. the whole of canaan were peopled by minor tribes that the jews were members of. tribes, not nations. they only decided to unite as a nation with state religion after they were returned to their land.
all the stories of abraham, moses are later found to be pure inventions, all derived from ancient myths from other civilizations.
the authors of the old testament can never be ascertained, including the book of isaiah. what is clear is that some of the later kings had a hand in that, the kingdoms that emerged out of babylon. king hezekiah himself was seen as the true author of isaiah. the trouble is that parts are using different styles from the rest, and the others coming from a totally different era before they were compiled and made to appear as single work.
not a secret they were all giant nations before israel became a nation.
let me narrate so that we can continue to our discussions and can help you understand what believers think.
when God called Abraham to become his friend these nations that you say were already there a giant ones.
abraham begot isaac and isaac begot jacob whom god later called him israel because he was going to possess
a land (canaan) and become a nation. that is nation israel now.
note this and understand it: that all the people living on earth have only the same father it was noah.
so regardless if they are giant nation or not it doesn't matter.
if you well aware of the canonization of the bible you can have a different views from these other Christians.
almost all christians believe like this that the bible were fallen from heaven which in truth is not.
catholic church fathers and fathers of protestants create the bible.
they were the ones responsible of which book should be included and which book excluded.
if they have divine intervention? i dont think so.
what i believe is they compiled writings of different forms and times IN GOOD FAITH.
you believe that abraham and so on were all inventions and they are myth.
well that's how you see it but for me they are here written to make people
understand the events of the past so that we know on what to do and what not to do.
and exactly every happenings of the past became legends and myths through times
because who will defend them? no one lives!
they were remnants my friend. they compiled it to become one because the story is one and the same
how could you not compiled them when you understand that the story are the same? of course you will.
now let,s go back to the isaiah - the dead sea scrolls found the book of isaiah intact in full text that is
no addition and no subtraction.
as i said before every discoveries should not to be the bases of your arguments because there came a time
when another discovery that will correct the previous ones.
discoveries are worthy to unravel the past of course but discoveries doesn't stop and is still working in progress.
what they said today that it is a fact will later retracted again if another discovery happened.
now if you will not believe in jesus works you should atleast believe that there is God.
when science said that big bang created the multi verse. then why is that these multi verses
were so harmonize that they float and have there own paths? why not until today they
are colliding to each other? why they are govern by their own gravity and pulling each other
but never colliding?
why is earth still exist and we still breath if no one govern them?
why the apes still apes and not become a man?
there is a designer my friend and that we call God.