Alien826
No religious beliefs
This is aimed at our Jewish and Christian friends. Other faiths and atheists please stay out as your answers are obvious. Thanks!
OK, when we read the Bible (OT), it's as if the whole world consisted of the Jewish people and those that came into contact with them. It's almost as if the rest of the world didn't exist. Obviously that's not strictly true, and also obviously the OT was written primarily as a history of the Jewish people. Nevertheless, it sometimes seems that God was only dealing with those people.
Of course, during that time period, we know there were Chinese people, Inuits, native Americans, Scandinavian folk, and so on, all getting on with their lives oblivious to the doings of the Jewish people. (Please don't correct me about when these people I named lived, my point is that the world was filled with people that didn't live in the Middle East).
My question is simple. What was God doing with all these other people? Leaving them to develop as they wished? Giving them their own religions?
OK, when we read the Bible (OT), it's as if the whole world consisted of the Jewish people and those that came into contact with them. It's almost as if the rest of the world didn't exist. Obviously that's not strictly true, and also obviously the OT was written primarily as a history of the Jewish people. Nevertheless, it sometimes seems that God was only dealing with those people.
Of course, during that time period, we know there were Chinese people, Inuits, native Americans, Scandinavian folk, and so on, all getting on with their lives oblivious to the doings of the Jewish people. (Please don't correct me about when these people I named lived, my point is that the world was filled with people that didn't live in the Middle East).
My question is simple. What was God doing with all these other people? Leaving them to develop as they wished? Giving them their own religions?