Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: YZKCU@cunyvm.bitnet (Yaakov Kayman) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: A first cut at Tolerance (long - sorry) Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 05:26:51 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center Lines: 33 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) says: > >If you read about the forty years in the wilderness, God granted the land >to the children of Israel only upon certain conditions. Anyone reading the book of Genesis can see that G-d promised the Jewish patriarchs that He would give the Land (of Canaan - what is now in part Israel) to their descendants. This occurred well before the forty years in the wilderness. >So, what it all boils down to is that the Promised Land, just like every >other land on this planet, BELONGS TO GOD. Man is allowed to use the >land according to what God will allow. Thus, the Hebrews were allowed to >have the Promised Land upon certain conditions, and God could and still can >revoke that privilege at any time. > Yes. While I as a Jew do not agree with the Christian view of just what G-d is, all that exists certainly does belong to Him. As I often like to say, contrary to the opinion of the late (and to me, unlamented) Saudi UN ambassador, Jamil Baroudi, G-d is very much in the real estate busi- ness. > >Elizabeth Yaakov K. -------- Yaakov Kayman (212) 903-3666 City University of New York BITNET: YZKCU@CUNYVM "Lucky is the shepherd, and lucky his flock Internet: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU about whom the wolves complain"