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All this hinges on modern Jews actually being descendents of Irsraelites, right?
If this is just about converts, and descendents of converts, then I don't understand how people converting to a false religion could make them more "chosen" than any other pagan. This is why I did some research.
Based on the HGP (Human Genome Project) it seems most of the current claims of being genetically Jewish are false or grossly exaggerated. Only half of the genomes studies in the group led to any Middle Eastern descent... and of even those, most of the genetic data (especially maternal data) was European.
There does seem to be several genetic commons in Ashkenazi (German) Jews, generally attributed to recent close community marriage, rather than to distinct ancestry.
The results vary based on the source unfortunately, and none of my medical journals discuss the matter (I minored in genetics, but none of my subscriptions focus on lineage, only disease markers really).
From what I'm reading in geneticliteracyproject.org, and from my professors at BRU, the common genetic data among global Jews only connects them to being related to Muslims and Druze. The general Islamic population of Iraq has more genetic similarities to Russian Jews than Russian Jews have to Ashkenazi Jews. And the Ashkenazi Jews have more similarities to the general population of Italy and Germany than to any other population of Jews. The shreds of genetic similarities are little more than a Swede has to an Etheopian.
I'm no longer even considering modern Jews to be a genetic race. It is a religion only, with massive cultural influence.
Oddly enough, if we look at the OT, very few of the warriors of David were of Israelite descent, but we're converts. The only positions that required genetic lineage were Priests and Kings (Christ fulfilled both, no?)
Being one of God's People was always about conversion, not genes. If they are converting to a religion that rejects Christ, then they reject the Father,
and they are not Children of God, and not Chosen People, but only the Synogogue of Satan.
Only converting to Faith in the One True God can make someone a real Israelite/child of Abraham, and part of the Chosen People of God.
If this is just about converts, and descendents of converts, then I don't understand how people converting to a false religion could make them more "chosen" than any other pagan. This is why I did some research.
Based on the HGP (Human Genome Project) it seems most of the current claims of being genetically Jewish are false or grossly exaggerated. Only half of the genomes studies in the group led to any Middle Eastern descent... and of even those, most of the genetic data (especially maternal data) was European.
There does seem to be several genetic commons in Ashkenazi (German) Jews, generally attributed to recent close community marriage, rather than to distinct ancestry.
The results vary based on the source unfortunately, and none of my medical journals discuss the matter (I minored in genetics, but none of my subscriptions focus on lineage, only disease markers really).
From what I'm reading in geneticliteracyproject.org, and from my professors at BRU, the common genetic data among global Jews only connects them to being related to Muslims and Druze. The general Islamic population of Iraq has more genetic similarities to Russian Jews than Russian Jews have to Ashkenazi Jews. And the Ashkenazi Jews have more similarities to the general population of Italy and Germany than to any other population of Jews. The shreds of genetic similarities are little more than a Swede has to an Etheopian.
I'm no longer even considering modern Jews to be a genetic race. It is a religion only, with massive cultural influence.
Oddly enough, if we look at the OT, very few of the warriors of David were of Israelite descent, but we're converts. The only positions that required genetic lineage were Priests and Kings (Christ fulfilled both, no?)
Being one of God's People was always about conversion, not genes. If they are converting to a religion that rejects Christ, then they reject the Father,
and they are not Children of God, and not Chosen People, but only the Synogogue of Satan.
Only converting to Faith in the One True God can make someone a real Israelite/child of Abraham, and part of the Chosen People of God.
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