>>21273681yeah people get cause and effect reversed a lot, they dont understand that jews carry around the Old Testament not because they wrote it and want us to be Christians, but because God wrote it and wants us to be Christians. even if as claimed the heretics of elephantine condemned in Jeremiah were orthodox and the Old Testament was written in the second century BC, Jesus in the first century AD fulfilled prophesies hundreds of years old, and jews continue to fulfil the prophesy of Jer 29
> Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon; 16Know that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity; 17Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. 18And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: 19Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD. they can of course repent whenever they want to. but they wont. so theyll keep holding on to part of the eternally preserved word of God and demonstrating its truth
