Herbert's British Israelism cannot be true on ...

2016-03-08T17:09:45.686+13:00

Herbert's British Israelism cannot be true on just common sense historical grounds alone.

Look what a melting pot the US is from the immigration of just 200+ years. Does it make any sense to claim that the US is a nation of people who can claim by any stretch of tortured imagination to be descended from a single patriarch, perhaps an ancient middle eastern "Manasseh" from 3800 years ago??? Not at all. It makes about as much sense as claiming Americans are the progeny of the coupling of Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty.

The case for Britain is even worse. We have some small inkling of who was living in ancient Europe from Greek and Roman historians such as Ptolemy, Cassius Dio, Plutarch, Tacitus, Pliny, Livy, and more, what sorts of languages they spoke, and how some of them moved around. Various texts recorded the presence of over 500 tribes. Nobody knows where they all came from. The Romans divided them into several general classifications for their own administrative purposes: Celtae, Germani, Belgae, and Aquitani, but these were not identities these tribes claimed for themselves. The Romans tell us the Angles and Saxons were living in and around the Danish peninsula, also the home of the Teutons, who would come to be thought of as quintessentially "German," and therefore, according Herbert, were Assyrians. We also know that some of the Angles and Saxons would later make incursions into the British Isles, pushing aside the existing "Celts" into Cornwall and Wales, and putting pressure on the northern Pictish tribes, and therefore, according to Herbert, were "Ephraim." Meanwhile, those Saxons who remained behind in what we now call Old Saxony, were "actually" just the "Assyrian" part of the tribe of Saxons? Seriously? And how did the ancient Assyrians all wind living in the middle of the middle of the "lost 10 tribes" of Israel? Anyway, then, of course, there were the Viking incursions beginning in 793, followed by the Norman Conquest in 1066, followed by the influx of immigrants that comes with having the largest empire in the world. The fact of the matter is, Britain, and Europe in general, has been a melting pot for nearly 10 times as long as the US.

Furthermore, American WASPs are, sort of by definition, um, more or less, Anglo-Saxons, aren't they? How do they get to be "Manasseh" while every other British extraction remains "Ephraim"? Canada, which is half Québécois BTW (and therefore, by equally tortured logic is supposed to be "Reuben") remains 100% "Ephraim"? Why are the Aussies and Kiwis "Ephraim" and not "Manasseh"? Oh, that's right, it's the line in there about the "company of nations" thing, and we need to find some countries who can be shoved into these molds. A more clear cut example of textbook confirmation bias I cannot imagine. Why are any of these peoples supposed to be pure extractions of descendants of some guys who probably never existed from 3800 years ago anyway? Even without the DNA evidence, it's already sheer lunacy, patently absurd on it's face.

Man of Destiny by Evangelist Victor A. Sackey shou...

2016-03-08T03:31:01.526+13:00

Man of Destiny by Evangelist Victor A. Sackey should also be on your list.

You might be a little suspicious, though, when you read the introduction and find the author praising Herbert Armstrong and Gerald Flurry.

Could it be that the book is a bit... how should we say... derivative?

Put me down for zero copies.

Although, I wonder if I could interest you in my NEW book, "Tacoma in Prophesy"?

Sure to be a best seller. Has the mayor's endorsement (just kidding -- Wadsworth should be so lucky).

Put me down for 20 copies!

2016-03-07T16:44:48.082+13:00

Put me down for 20 copies!

Be sure to write for the most important book of TW...

2016-03-07T16:24:54.542+13:00

Be sure to write for the most important book of TWENTY FIRST CENTURY!! My "opus magnum" work...

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A-men!

2016-03-07T10:29:29.704+13:00

A-men!

Comments on Ambassador Watch: "The Most Significant Book of this Century"

Herbert's British Israelism cannot be true on ...

Man of Destiny by Evangelist Victor A. Sackey shou...

Put me down for 20 copies!

Be sure to write for the most important book of TW...

A-men!