The word of God is not a secret code that needs unlocked.

So please answer my questions from post 1005.

Sorry, I missed that. It depends on what you calling the law and mean by establish. God selected Aaron in Exodus to be his priest. The ordering and conduct of the priesthood is described in several books. So if that is all law to you then yes. It was before the captivity.

You were going back to the time of Abraham?.... The father of the Jews.
That is what you based your argument upon?

Why then, did you bring up the Pharisees?

Where are you???????

I have heard that argument once before.
It was in the only forum where I found some hated Jews...
They loved that doctrine you are espousing.

But, maybe, I got you wrong.

And, many from the northern kingdom migrated to southern Israel while the north was going apostate.
They too, are to be called Jews.

There is not two olive trees mentioned to be grafted into and from. Only one.

Lived in Israel for a summer.
Born in the USA.

Wondering why you ask.

Abraham was the father of Isaac,, Jacob and the 12 tribes of Israel, of which Judah was one of them. The word Jew, which means Judean, didn't start referring to all of the tribes of Israel until much, much later.

lol I'd say you do have me wrong because they are the words of Paul, not me.

Well; because of unbelief they {Jews} were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: Romans 11:20
And they also, if they [Jews] abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. Romans 11:23

Because they were living in Judea under the authority of the Judean pharisees

You can be a strong Christian without a Bible.

For far too long folk could not read and many still cannot read well, even today!

Let alone not having a translation in their own language for many centuries.

To attempt to reduce this problem down to a single divine translation is outrageous.

It derived it's name from Judea.
Just like Americans derived their name from Amerigo Vespucci.

Yet, Americans today can be from many different countries.
Same applied to the many tribes.

So what's your problem with calling all Jews, Jews?

You are working with a detail in Jewish history, but its not the over all picture,

I'm asking to know more about your background which affects us (myself included) in open mindedness or otherwise.
I find your posts interesting and i understand your direct communication style which is also common in my culture (Albania).
I also read about your struggles with your health so God bless you and keep you safe.

Absolutely!!! it's nothing but "Theology. and the creation of just another "Idol" to be worshipped in addition to GOD HIMSELF.

The King James Version.

The source material for the translation of the New Testament was the Textus Receptus version of the Greek compiled by Erasmus; for the Old Testament, the Masoretic text of the Hebrew was used; for some of the apocrypha, the Septuagint Greek text was used, or for apocrypha for which the Greek was unavailable, the Vulgate Latin.

James' instructions included several requirements that kept the new translation familiar to its listeners and readers. The text of the Bishops' Bible would serve as the primary guide for the translators, and the familiar proper names of the biblical characters would all be retained. If the Bishops' Bible was deemed problematic in any situation, the translators were permitted to consult other translations from a pre-approved list: the Tyndale Bible, the Coverdale Bible, Matthew's Bible, the Great Bible, and the Geneva Bible. In addition, later scholars have detected an influence on the Authorized Version from the translations of Taverner's Bible and the New Testament of the Douay–Rheims Bible.[48]
(wiki.King_James_Version)

The KJV is nothing more than a composition of a jumble of translations including the Septuagint and
the Latin Vulgate. To even attempt to call the KJV an inspired text is ignorant and ridiculous. The primary
guide for the translation of the KJV was the Bishops' Bible.

You would be forced to recognize that the Bishops' Bible is the one true, divine translation. Because
that is what the KJV really is; a direct copy of the Bishops' Bible.

As for "textual Criticism", that is what all of the Bible translators are actually doing when they
conduct a translation. Hunting through early manuscripts, translations, for the true written words of
the text.

Definition: Textual Criticism, the technique of restoring texts as nearly as possible to their original form.

a person can say whatever they want when they make up their own private definitions of words.

what's your personal word for the religion of Moses?

My issue is that the religion of the pharisees, ie, Judaism, is not the religion of Moses. Do you disagree? Jews just means followers of the pharisees' religion; Ancient Israelites were followers of Moses (at least the obedient ones were)

I mentioned having struggles with my health?
Not really, other I am sometimes allergic to getting older.

My parents were second generation American who's parents came from Austria in the 1890's.
I have been told that I do have some of their traits.

I am learning that some do not like a direct approach..

Honestly, I don't have one

Nice and good to know.

Regarding your health, you mentioned somewhere that you were involved with some mental health hospitals? This was in response to that user who was banned who thinks that he's a prophet.