Is the bible the word of God or men?

BurgeIsraeli historians now talk about the mass and planned expulsion of the Palestinians, an early form of 'ethnic cleansing'.The most troubling natiional confession has been the destruction of at least four hundred Palestinian villages, the ruin of dozens of Arab urban neighborhoods, and several massacres that would motivate the Arab population to flee.

HanegraaffIf America required people of African descent to carry special ID cards or to leave the country to make way for people of European ancestry, we would be conemned as a nation that promoted racism and apartheid.

BurgeAny country that de facto excludes a segment of its society from national benefits on the basis of race can hardly qualify as democratic.

BurgeIn 1998, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel ccused the government of race-based discrimination and 'creating a threatening atmosphere that makes violation of human rights more acceptable'.

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Real EstateFinally, at isse is an explosive debate over real estate.Eight years before Israel was formally founded in 1948, Joseph Weitz, director of the Jewish National Land Fund, defined the debte over real estate when he declared that there was not enough room in Palestine for bth Jews and Arabs. "If the Arabs leave the country, it will be broad and wide open for us.If the Arabs stay, the country will remain narrow and miserable.The only solution is Israel without Arabs.There is no room for compromise on this point."32Israels first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion , was equally direct when he wrote, "We will expel Arabs and take their place".33Thus, scarcely three years after the Nazi Holocaust ended in 1945, a Holy Land holocaust was initiated.Brother Andrew, best known for smuggling Bibles to Christians living behind the Iorn Curtain, recalls the well-known 1948 massacre of Deir Yassin in which an entire village of two hundred fifty men , women , children, and babies were brutally slaughtered by the Israeli paramiliary: "A few men were left alive and driven around to other villages to tell the story; then those mn were killed too.The result was a panic. That's why so many Palestinians fled.Entire villages were emptied, which is exactly what the Israelis wanted.They just took over those peoples homes."34In whose Land? Whose Promise? Gary Burge names and faces for many victims and villages that were uprooted at gunpoint:

BurgeNa'im Stifan Ateek was eleven years old in 1948.He and his family belonged to he Anglican Christian community in Beisan.Their home was a locus of Christian actvity:Bible studis , visiting missionaries, and Sunday school classes met there.His father even helped build an Anglican Church for Beisan.In the absence of a resident Anglican pastor (who came from Nazareth once a month for Holy Communion), Na'im's father served as the church's lay reader.On May 12, 1948(two days before the state of Israel was declared), Israeli soldiers occupied Beisan.There was no fighting, no resistance, no killing.The town was simply taken over.After searching the homes for weapons and radios, on May 26 they rounded up the leading men of the town to make an important announcment. Everyone would have to lave their homes in a few hours. "If you do not leave, we will have to kill you", they said.When the people had gathered in the center of town, the soldiers seperated the Muslims from the Christians.The Muslims were sent east to Jordan, ad the Christians were put on buses and deposited on the outskirts of Nazareth.Within a few hours, Na'im's mother, father, seven sisters, and two brothers were refugees.They had lost everything except the things they could carry.In Nazareth they joined some friends, and seventeen of them lived in two rooms near "Mary's Well". Na'im's father wet to work at once helping relief efforts for the countless Christians and Muslims flooding Nazareth daily s refugees.Ten years later, in 1958, the government permitted many of the Palestinian families to travel for one day without restriction.Na'ims father was eager to brng his children to Beisan so that they could see their "home".The Anglican Church had become a store-house.The Roman Catholic Church was a school.The Greek Orthadox church was in ruins.Na'im remembers the moment his father stepped up to the door of his home, the one he had built with his own hands.He wanted to see it one last time.But his request was refused.The new Israeli occupant said, "This is not your house.It is ours."

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op cit"How do you deny my right to this land? It is my property. I inherted t from my parents and grandparents, and I have the deed of ownership".The official replied, "Ours is a more impressive deed; we have the deed fo the land from Dan {in the far north} to Elat {in the far south}".Another official was paying a peasant a token sale price for his land.Holding the peasant's property deed, the official remarked, "This is not your land; it is ours, and we are paying you 'watchman's wages', fo that is what you are.You have watched our land for two thousand years, and now we are paying your fee.But the land has always been ours."

HanegraaffFormer Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it plainly: "Our clam to the land is based on the greatest and most incontrovertable document in creation-the Holy Bible."

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op citSuch unbiblical notions put Christian Zionists in the untenable postion of condoning the displacement of Palestinian Chrisians from their homeland in order to facilitate a occupation based on unbelief and racial affiliation.The tragic consequence is that Palestinians today form the largest dislaced people in the world.

I am doubting that it was Paul's intent to so aggrandize the Jewish canon but I could be wrong.

... all the OT laws, w/o exception, are active today - and no other religion or philosiphy was able to give the world a single law not contained therein. This renders the OT unique.