Did God ( Yahweh ) make the biggest screw up in history?

Question

When he promised a small nomadic jewish tribe the land from the Euphrates to the Nile.

Why didn't he say the Yangtse to the Missisipi.

Or Gange to the Rheine.

What was Yahweh's right to promise this land which has caused conflict for 1,000s of years?

Why is this still taken seriously. So is Yahweh God then?

Of the Jews, Christians and Islam. Why didn't he know it would cause a problem?

Nice one Bosco...Thanks

It's amazing how a question like this brings out the fundamentalist extremists isn't it?

Smellycat Interesting stuff, I'll check it.

Theophil..I see that you said Swastika is a symbol of hate.. insulting a billion Hindus....It is auspicious.

Answer 1

I'm sure what jews consider as divinely inspired scripture is just a mishmash of superstition,folklore and self-serving political imperialism - as self-serving now as 2000 years ago. There is no "Yahwah" and if there is a supreme being - for which there is no real evidence - you would think he would have "promised" them someplace suitably isolated like Tasmania,where they could go and steer themselves clear forever of any contact with the "unclean gentiles",i.e. 99.999% of the human race. Tasmania was offered to them in 1940 as a national homeland and so far as I know the offer is still open.

Answer 2

When God speaks to us mortals, from now on, let's get it on tape. I, for one, would like an explanation of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the birth of Hitler (where was a rubber when Mr. Shitzelgruber and the whole world needed it.) Fanciful ancient tales enhanced the status of the story-tellers. Man has made his own history and his own conflicts. If the ancient Jews or Moslems had ever waited for God to do their planting in the Spring, THAT would have been real faith, and they'd have starved. Rivers run to drain the land, and on this one, the Jews drained the Moslems. Allah and Yahweh simply shrugged, shuffled the deck and turned their attention to a small planet in another galaxy far, far away where they had induced a band of Durforpees to eat their clergymen because the passing ammonia cloud dropped nary a droplet of the quenching God-juice, Ammon.

Answer 3

You are reading too much 'fact' into your religous text.

In the first place, you must understand the words in the Bible are translations at best by scribes and others, they used what ever was the spoken word and translated it to what they felt was what must have been meant.

When the Earth was created the rivers did not have names, nor is it known exactly where Eden was. In truth Eden was probably the whole Earth. God gave humans the power to reason and think, and he gave them greed, these were features perhaps He did not design into us until His edicts on living in Eden were broken.

Now in His own words we shall have "Pain Suffering and Death". rather than what was in Eden which was everlasting life ....

By the way Yahweh is said to be His name, though that is not known for sure actually except by again writings of the scribes.

Answer 4

I think you're asking the wrong question. I think the right question is why all people feel they are compelled to fight for what they think is "promised to them". The only god-given rights we have as citizens of this earth is the right to breathe. We have to work for the food in our stomachs and the roofs over our heads. We also must work for peace. When every person in this world is willing to do so, then we can call our entire world our own.

Answer 5

He promised it in Genesis to Abraham before Ishmael was even born.

Ishmael was not God's idea, it was Sara's idea to give Abraham to her handmaid to bear him a child so he could leave an inheritance to him.

Turns out that was not God's idea, He would give Abraham another child named Isaac to receive his inheritance.

See, people are always doing what God does not want them to do, and others are blaming it on God.

This battle is between the descendants of Ishmael (Arabs) and Isaac (Jews). It is a sibling rivalry that has been going on since Muhammad began his war against the Jews.
When Abraham died both Ishmael and Isaac were at the burial.

grace2u

Answer 6

DUUUH!! We are at WAR, as set in motion in the Garden..... He gave DOMINION to ADAM and his kind. The war has continued to this day. AND THE VERY PEOPLE YOU are decieved into believing was GIVEN that land ARE NOT THE TRUE PEOPLE IT WAS GIVEN TO, but impostors who adopted a religion called judaism....see article "chazar" on www.JEWISHENCYCLOPEDIA.com
AND, just to make it worse on your foolish, ignorant conclusions.... THE WHOLE WORLD WAS PART OF THE PROMISE.... therefore, it is just a matter of time til we get to YOU and YOUR KIND......ready to party?

BY the way,,,,YAHWEH is NOT 'god', nor is 'god' Yahweh. Please go to www.yahweh.com, click on 'who is lord god' article and LEARN that god is just another term for DEMON and was not part of the original YAHWISTIC WRITINGS.

Answer 7

If they had remained faithful, it would not have been a problem. As long as they did, they prospered. when they rebelled out of their own stubbornness, He let them be enslaved. Since killing His Son, Jesus, was the last straw.

They have received what they deserved. God does not call them His people anymore.

Answer 8

No. Humans wrote the book trying to gain power and free land. Other humans made competing claims, also backed by claims of a god. The usual hatred ensued.

Answer 9

Well, that's Judaism for you. Some older Jews don't believe in God anymore (Holocaust). But uhh, I guess he never forsaw (if that's a word), or predicted that there would be conflict between other religions. Especially in Jerusalem.

Answer 10

Everything belongs to God. He created the land so it is
His to give away, if He so chooses.. He gave the land to Israel. It's theirs. Why should they
have to give away some of it to Palestine?