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https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/This-Normal-Life/Roman-vs-Jewish-law-whatever-happened-to-patrilineal-descent-389254

After all, for the first part of the Jewish story, Judaism was passed on by the father, not the mother. A quick glance at Biblical genealogies makes this clear – see the many examples of Jewish kings who took non-Jewish spouses – and in inter-tribal marriage during the Biblical era, paternal descent was likewise decisive. A non-Jewish woman marrying a Jewish man didn’t even have to convert. She was now part of the tribe and her children would naturally be Jewish. Jewish family status continues to go by the father’s side to this day when determining whether one is a cohen (priest) or a levite. Now, the rabbis in the years following the fall of Jerusalem to Rome may have had very good reasons for switching to matrilineal descent.

This openness to change found its way into the Talmud, often with good effects. The “eye for an eye” of the bible was transformed into monetary compensation, in perhaps the most famous example. (sounds just like our elite class now, $$$ over justice).

When it came to the question of descent, who benefited the most from the patrilineal argument? That would be the Sadducees, or priests, who were locked in a fierce battle for supremacy with the Pharisees, or rabbis. It wouldn’t have been the first change initiated by the rabbis meant to place a wedge between them and the priests who presided in Jerusalem. Hebrew University Professor Rachel Elior speaks frequently on the importance of the calendar in the fight between these two groups. The priests held by a solar calendar; the rabbis promoted a lunar one. The two were completely out of sync. Yom Kippur on one calendar would never fall on the same date as the Day of Atonement on the other. How could you get along if you couldn’t celebrate the holidays together? The reason for the dueling datebooks was as much political as it was religious, Elior says. In an article in The Jerusalem Post from a few years back, Elior explains that the rabbis “were unhappy about the exclusiveness of the priests and the power they had accrued.” Winning people over to the rabbis’ lunar cycle ultimately proved effective. Could the same motivation be behind the change from patrilineal to matrilineal descent? After all, what could split the people more completely than the basic definition of who is a Jew? It certainly has that effect today. (it certainly does ya lying rat)

https://www.jpost.com/Blogs/This-Normal-Life/Roman-vs-Jewish-law-whatever-happened-to-patrilineal-descent-389254 After all, for the first part of the Jewish story, Judaism was passed on by the father, not the mother. A quick glance at Biblical genealogies makes this clear – see the many examples of Jewish kings who took non-Jewish spouses – and in inter-tribal marriage during the Biblical era, paternal descent was likewise decisive. A non-Jewish woman marrying a Jewish man didn’t even have to convert. She was now part of the tribe and her children would naturally be Jewish. Jewish family status continues to go by the father’s side to this day when determining whether one is a cohen (priest) or a levite. Now, the rabbis in the years following the fall of Jerusalem to Rome may have had very good reasons for switching to matrilineal descent. This openness to change found its way into the Talmud, often with good effects. The “eye for an eye” of the bible was transformed into monetary compensation, in perhaps the most famous example. (sounds just like our elite class now, $$$ over justice). When it came to the question of descent, who benefited the most from the patrilineal argument? That would be the Sadducees, or priests, who were locked in a fierce battle for supremacy with the Pharisees, or rabbis. It wouldn’t have been the first change initiated by the rabbis meant to place a wedge between them and the priests who presided in Jerusalem. Hebrew University Professor Rachel Elior speaks frequently on the importance of the calendar in the fight between these two groups. The priests held by a solar calendar; the rabbis promoted a lunar one. The two were completely out of sync. Yom Kippur on one calendar would never fall on the same date as the Day of Atonement on the other. How could you get along if you couldn’t celebrate the holidays together? The reason for the dueling datebooks was as much political as it was religious, Elior says. In an article in The Jerusalem Post from a few years back, Elior explains that the rabbis “were unhappy about the exclusiveness of the priests and the power they had accrued.” Winning people over to the rabbis’ lunar cycle ultimately proved effective. Could the same motivation be behind the change from patrilineal to matrilineal descent? After all, what could split the people more completely than the basic definition of who is a Jew? It certainly has that effect today. (it certainly does ya lying rat)

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Sadducee - Pharisee is all Fake and Gay, It just the sin of Jeroboam. The only Old Testament people with any authority over the tabernacle and the ministrations of the Word of God were the Levites.

Sadducee/Pharisees is just the continuation of the Sin of Jeroboam. They added their own "stuff" to the word of God, so as not to lose power and control over the laity.

Jeroboam made alternate places of worship (like synagogues), alternate dates of worship, and he allowed any old fool that wanted the job to be a priest, (like a pharisee/sadducee of any tribe)

The churches are the exact copy of the synagogue, Sin of Jeroboam system. Did Jesus say to change one jot or tittle churches?

God did not sanction any of the sin of Jeroboam initiatives, in fact exile and judgment comes from engaging in the sin of Jeroboam, Ahab and Omri.

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The churches are the exact copy of the synagogue, Sin of Jeroboam system. . . in fact exile and judgment comes from engaging in the sin of Jeroboam, Ahab and Omri.

The problem with these kinds of hot takes about Christianity is that they essentially equate to a worship of knowledge. People who are simple folk or illiterate or whatever the case, by your metric, would be punished or condemned for the sole reason that they're not very intelligent. The worship of knowledge is thoroughly satanic.

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The worship of knowledge is thoroughly satanic

I'm curious - would you mind sharing further reading that supports your angle on this?

The 'worship' of knowledge is what gave us Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics (then called 'Natural Philosophy'), all deriving from the Grecian times and people. Aristotle, Plato, Eratosthenes, etc were all Greek gnostics. The library at Alexandria essentially represented their enshrined collection of knowledge, and it was likely burned by jews (the 'synogogue of Satan', as Jesus called them).

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would you mind sharing further reading that supports your angle on this?

Definitely. Nothing you mentioned is at odds with what I mean. I would say figures like Plato were lovers of wisdom first and foremost.

First, worship of knowledge is very different from simply having knowledge or pursuing knowledge. It's a useful tool but it's not the end all be all.

I tend to break it down into two categories. The worship of wisdom and the worship of knowledge. The former is how you end up with the examples you listed, whereas the latter is how you end up with today's dysfunction in society.

You have people who can disassemble and reassemble a toaster in five minutes but can't tell the difference between boys and girls. The left is actually correct about trannies and everything through their knowledge oriented worldview. In their eyes we are little more than meat robots, and yes one day we will reach a level of technology where you can quite literally change your sex at a whim. Is it possible right now? No. But one day it will be.

They are transhumanists.

The worship of knowledge sucks humanity from ones soul. There isn't any consideration for humanity. In their knowledge oriented worldview such things are just "social constructs", little more than superstition. Cloning humans, genetic engineering, pretty much everything is free game in such a worldview.