Ginny, you speak truly that the letter J was the last of the letters to be added to the English language.
This is common knowledge. It fails to put a hitch into anyone's getalong.
Today, we use J.
Strain at a gnat much?
About 2000 years before Christ, God called Abram out of Ur where he lived near the Persian Gulf. Abram settled in Haran, at the other end of the Euphrates river. However, God led him down to Canaan, east of the Mediterranean Sea where the river Jordan flows.
God promised that Abram's, Isaac's, and Jacob's descendants, would possess that land as their eternal possession. God also promised that one of Abram's descendants would bless all nations. Abraham (as his name became) was old. His wife Sarah was also old, and what is more she had always been barren. Sarah and Abraham contrived to produce a son and heir through Sarah's servant Hagar, so Ishmael was born. However God insisted that Sarah would bear a son to Abraham, and his name would be Isaac.
Through the promise and power of God, Isaac was indeed born to them. In time, Isaac begot Jacob who became known by the name Israel. He fathered 12 sons from whom the twelve tribes of Israel were descended.
The Main Point is that behind this story are "two immutable things"...
The PROMISE and
The OATH of God which confirmed it
Promises to Abraham in Genesis:
12:1-3,7 The call of Abram and God's plan for him
13:14-18 Many descendants and a promised land
15:1-21 A promised land many descendants
17:1-8 A covenant made and a change of name
21:8-21 A promise for Hagar's son Ishmael
22:15-18 God swears an oath to Abraham
25:21-27 God's promise to Rebekah Isaac's wife
26:1-5 and 24 God repeats to Isaac the promise to Abraham
28:10-16 Jacob's dream of a ladder to heaven
35:9-12 Jacob blessed again, name changed to Israel
There are Two main elements in these promises:
The land promise
God had chosen the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to become a great nation who would possess the land of Canaan.
The seed promise
The whole world was to be blessed through one particular descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The promise was that Abraham's 'seed' would bless the world (Hebrews 6:13-20). Just as Abraham placed his hope of eternal life in these two unchangeable things, so also do we (Romans 4:16-25).
Abraham’s Family Tree/Abraham’s Genealogy
Adam was the father of Seth
Seth was the ancestor of Noah
Noah had a son called Shem
Shem was the ancestor of Terah
Terah was the father of Sarah, Abram, Nahor, Haran
Abram married Sarah and they had a son Isaac
Nahor married Haran's daughter Milcah and they had a son Bethuel
Bethuel was the father of Rebekah and Laban
Isaac married Rebekah and they had a son Jacob
Jacob married Laban's daughters Leah and Rachel and had twelve sons by them and their maids:
—Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah (by Leah)
—Dan and Naphtali (by Bilah, Rachel's maid)
—Gad and Asher (by Zilpah, Leah's maid)
—Issachar and Zebulun (by Leah)
—Joseph and Benjamin (by Rachel)
—Joseph had two sons Manasseh and Ephraim
Abraham was the...
Son of Terah
Uncle of Lot
Husband of Sarah
Father of Ishmael (Edom) by Hagar
Father of Isaac by Sarah
Grandfather of Israel (Jacob)
Scripture Key
Adam's sons and daughters (Genesis 4:1-2,25 5:3-5)
Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:17-23)
Seth's descendants down to Noah (Genesis 5:7-32)
About Noah's youngest son Ham (Genesis 9:18-29)
About the Canaanites and other 'ites (Genesis 9:18, 10:1-20)
From Shem to Terah (Genesis 10:21-31, 11:10-26)
Terah, Nahor, Haran, Lot, Milcah (Genesis 11:26-29, 22:20-23)
Bethuel, Rebekah (Genesis 24:15,24,47)
About Sarah Abraham's wife and sister (Genesis 11:29-31, 20:12-13)
About Ishmael, Hagar's son to Abraham (Genesis 16:1-16)
About Isaac, Sarah's son to Abraham (Genesis 17:18-19, 21:1-7)
Esau and Jacob twins born to Isaac and Rebekah (Genesis 25:20-26)
Esau married a daughter of Ishmael (Genesis 28:9)
Esau called Edom (meaning red) (Genesis 25:28-34)
Jacob's name changed to Israel (Genesis 32:27-28, 35:9-12)
Who's who among Jacob's wives (Genesis 29:16-30)
Jacob's sons and grandchildren (Genesis 35:23-26, 46:8-27)
Jacob's first four sons by Leah (Genesis 29:31-34)
Jacob's next four sons by Bilah and Zilpah (Genesis 30:1-13)
Jacob's next two sons and a daughter by Leah (Genesis 30:14-21)
Jacob's last two sons by Rachel (Genesis 30:22-24 35:16-19)
Joseph's sons Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 48:1-22)
Romans 2:28-29 is written to the Christian church about church members who were attempting to impose restrictions upon new members that the 1st Christian council, that of James, had forbidden be imposed.
Historical revisionism is always a drag, and when it involves convoluting the word of God, even more so.
Ginny_Dandy wrote:
There was NO letter "J" in the English language until the 18th century.
1611 King James Version2 Kings 16:6
At that time Rezin king of Syria, recouered Elath to Syria, &
draue the Iewes from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there vnto this day.
Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the Gopel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation, to euery one that beleeueth, to
the Iew first, and also to the Greeke.
Romans 2:28-29
For hee is not a Iew, which is one outwardly, neither is that Circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he is a Iew which is one inwardly, and Circumcision is, that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.
http://www.theletterj.followersofyah.comexcerpt:
We received an email informing us that the letter "J" is found in Wycliffe's Bible dating to the late 1300s. Wycliffe's bible was ONLY a translation of the New Testament AND was not from the original Hebrew and Aramaic, but of the Latin Vulgate. The 1611 KJV Bible was the original most known and accepted translation of the bible. And this bible has absolutely no letter "J" in it. The name Jesus is simply a combination of the Latin and Greek IESOUS. Please note the similarity between the Greek IESOUS and pagan deity of Zeus. In fact, the pagan deity of Zeus is not pronounced in its original tongue as we read it. As we have discussed, there isn't even a letter or sound of "J" in the Greek Alphabet. While the historical references are foggy about when the initial and exact time the letter "J" sound came into existence in the English language, the window is sometime between the 1500-1600s. This current modern translation of what the world uses... Jesus, did not exist until give or take, 500 years ago.There was NO letter "J" in the English l... (
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