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The State of Irael is not the Promised Land
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'The State of Israel is not the Promised Land' Discuss According to the Bible, the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) was promised to the descendants of Hebrew patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob by God, making it the Promised Land. Firstly people can considered that the state of israel is not the promised land because if God had considered to only allow the Jews to have it as there promised land he would of interferrred with the amount of invading and scattering the jews which has occurred thoughout there history. For example this is displayed in Colin Chapman's 'who's promised land' where he shows how many times the Jews have had corruptions in there history and the movement of their people, one example is he describes the Babylon exile the 'cream' of Jewish society. As well as describing the Roman, Byzantine, Arabs and Seljuk Turks, Crusaders and Palestine invasion in to the...
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