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The craziest part about the word Holocaust is that the only time it shows up in the Bible it’s to refer to a “burnt offering” of charred flesh and fat offered to YHWH in Genesis.
The Jews have a really fucked up view of God and prophecy. From what I've read, they literally believe that 6,000,000 Jews had to be burnt in a fire to return to the promised land, and apparently they believed they could force the issue.
As a Christian, I'm always skeptical of people who insist that prophecy always has to be taken 100% literally. As though God doesn't love His metaphors and parables when explaining things to us. People who think they can force His hand by playing Magic Spells: Gargoyles Edition are even shadier.
yeah, if God is perfect, then God knows perfectly how to use abstract ideas and nuance. a lot of Christianity in general depends so much on this fact, it's really a shame most either ignore it or completely twist the intended interpretation.
That's literally what makes them j*wish. In Christ, God revealed that a huge chunk of his eternal strategy was a word game to distract the Enemy. The judeans who accepted God's revealed explanation became Christians. The judeans who replied "nuh uh" are the cursed people we suffer under today.
That's interesting, I actually had to look that one up. I don't remember ever seeing the word Holocaust in the Bible, but I only ever read the King James version. But you're right, they do use it in the Catholic translations, specifically when instructing Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. The King James version replaces that term with "burnt offering".
Iirc it is also used to refer to Abel’s offering of the firstling
'Holocaust' is the Greek term for when the whole animal is sacrificed rather than just the bones and the fat.
So then how did that term come to be used by jews for that event? Has any Jew actually offered up an explanation? If it's a word.that doesn't even exist outside a few rare contexts, then they had to have chosen it for a reason. In fact that was probably THE reason. Something no infrequently used it's basically a novel word.
'The Jews' use the term Shoah, which means catastrophe. It's historians who use holocaust. Not sure why. Possibly because the bodies were burned afterwards.
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