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Is it true that Hebrew scripture is all about telling the history of the Hebrew people?



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Is it true that Hebrew scripture is all about telling the history of the Hebrew people? 
Is it true that Hebrew scripture is all about telling the history of the Hebrew people? If we were to be brutally 
honest, we would have to say that, had the Torah's narrative started with the Hebrew people's departure from 
their Egyptian bondage, we would agree that Torah was all about the nation of Israel. But the fact is that 
Torah's narrative starts thousands of years earlier than Israel's deliverance from Egypt. 
Not only that, but since Torah's earlier narrative doesn't hesitate to include [and exalt without any regard for 
ethnic background] people from all kind of non-Hebrew background (Enoch, Noah, Melchizedek, Job, etc), 
we must therefore conclude that Hebrew Scripture is actually God's message not only to the nation of Israel, 
but also to all mankind-- it's message being that, regardless of his race or nationality, he who willingly fears 
and obeys the one true God [the God worshipped by Avraham], thereby becomes part of God's chosen 
people. 
And from whence do we know that the seventy [original] nations [of the World] are also called to become 
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Israel? We know it from Moses, who while addressing the Children of Israel said to them: “Shema Yisrael 
(Hear oh Israel!)...” (Exodus 5:1). In the former passage, the phrase “shema Yisrael” can validly be translated
as “Shem-a Yisrael”, wich in ancient Hebrew means, “Name of (the) Seventy [nations of the world]?- 
Israel! ...”. 
What is the purpose of God's Law? 
The ultimate purpose of the Divine Law revealed to Moses [at the top of Mount Sinai] is no other than to 
teach mankind that God expects us to pursue a life of virtue; that, by walking in the path of God's 
commandments [whose aim is love for God, as well as for our fellow creatures] we are actually “sowing” the
good moral fruit that will guarantee that we get rewarded with a blessed and bountiful “harvest”. As is 
written: 
“And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and
to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high 
above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt 
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God”- Deuteronomy 28:1-2, KJV. 
Thus, it is no surprise that Scripture associates idolatry to the abandonment of God's Law. Why? Because, in 
the very moment that we embrace any idea [or theology] that lures us away from God's commandments, we 
are in fact embracing idolatry [going after a false god]; as we are turning away from the perfect will of the 
one true God, in order to follow instead after a vain thing. As is written: 
“Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the 
Lord your God, which I command you this day: And A CURSE, IF YE WILL NOT OBEY THE 
COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this
day, TO GO AFTER OTHER GODS, WHICH YE HAVE NOT KNOWN”- Deuteronomy 11:26-28. 

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