What Happened to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? 

Correction: the Book of Mormon makes no reference to where the lost ten tribes went and only details people of the tribe of Judah and Joseph traveling to the americas

Correction: As an orthodox Jewish person I Need to correct some points: In the story about Dvora, the name Gilad is not a name of a tribe. Gilad is the name of the land along the Jordan River at the eastern side of the river. The inhabitants of the Gilad are 2½ tribes. Also if you'll read the Bible in Hebrew you'll see that during the Shoftim years, the tribes lived each tribe to its own most of the time and only get together in danger or for holidays. So when we look at it from this perspective we can understand that the tribe under attack will call the closest tribes and not the tribes who lived couple of days (walking distance) away.

Read Jeremiah 31 New Covenant and you'll find out who the House of Israel is. They were given something that the House of Judah was not. Once you figure it out, you will be shocked.

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Technically they were all lost, at least for 40 years.

They are pastun tribe in afganistan now

Damn spoiler alert much

I think the vast majority of them likely became samaritans

In America of course

@@Journeyman107 what?

@@zacharyhenderson2902 You can find them where power and riches is to be found..

Keep imagining because it hasn't happened for thousands of years and chances "you" are just wrong

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Israel built those tunnels in the 80s before moving Palestinians into the gaza open air prison from birth to death no jobs no future no electricity at night no food. Israel is an internationally recognized genocide and apartheid state. They starve pregnant women and don't allow them to leave. When their sons grow up and defend them they get called terrorists and still are not allowed to leave to this day. It's literally a concentration camp only American mainstream media and certain racist others looking to make money on innocent lives in Palestine don't call it genocide but keep calling it the pleight of the Palestinians or Israel Hamas war but we know the truth. Hands off my tax dollars for this genocide and apartheid state of Israel that is not the victim America and the world stand with the people or Palestine forever 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 The Masonic Scofield Bible renamed Palestine published in 1913 with Israel go look at a 1905 Bible it will say Palestine not Israel in the map. Israel never meant a name for a land it's the children of Israel is the true name. They attempted to divide and conquer the three religions but will fail as God is the best of all planners.

It is really good, and helps people understand this stuff. I think most scholars when they truly get into it, either feel 'nothing new under the sun' or perhaps are spiritual themselves. The most stiff-necked people against religion in my experience are American Christians, to them it matters so much what people believe or do differently that they have to say something against it. That and your run of the mill undergrad atheist who's experience with religion is their asshole parents.

Your right...she is of the Northern Kingdom and Christ is Southern Kingdom, but both are Israelites. Their father Jacob had the well built.

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Samaritans are coverts they are not the 12/13 tribes.

@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 The Samaritan Israelites have been in israel for thousands of years and they have had their dna tested.The tests show that the Samaritans Israelites have similar DNA to many Diaspora groups who live in Israel. Shen et al Reconstruction of the Matralineges and Patralineges of Samaritan Israelites or blog.23and me genetics of the Samaritan Israelites.

@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 The Samaritan Israelites are from Manasseh Ephraim and Levi

I had always thought the Samaritans were mixed race Jewish and their Babylonian(?) captors. Or maybe the Israelites eventually returning from captivity and intermarrying the people that settled there in their absence.

So did the British and the Franks, both of whom have epics tracing their origin back to escapees from the fall of Troy. These are not part of their Germanic heritage, but came much later from educated writers. Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century History of the Kings of Britain traces the people of Celtic Britain back to a descendant of Aeneas named "Brutus."

@UCx3gsrPNyQiwbxmIMM82oIQ The change would be much appreciated even if you consider it to be self-evident. I simply don’t want Muhammadans thinking that their part in our history was something it wasn’t. If anything even the small part such people have played has, on the whole, affected this continent negatively. Proud nations have been turned into rubble under the explosive savagery of Muhammadanism. It would be nice to see the evidence that dynasty’s in west Africa were doing that! I don’t doubt it but I suspect you’re overplaying just how much it happened. Interesting that you say nothing about North Africans who were so thoroughly conquered by Meffistanis that they now call themselves Arabs and couldn’t tell you their own ethnic group if you asked them 😭

Thousands of years ago Pyramids were built all over the world. People in Egypt didn't know that people in South America even existed. What they all have in common is the gods came from the sky, the stars. If someone or something can come from the stars it's possible that people could go the other way. We all have different opinions but it's a fact that they all said their gods came from the sky.

@@glenngordon2352 lol is this your alt account Graham Hancock? Head on back to Ancient Aliens; I'm talking about actual history here.

@@bearlytamedmodels Is that right? Please explain.

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A lot of Italians have Anatolian dna

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Like he said in the video, Empires don't generally have the incentives or the resources to move entire nation worth of ready-made taxable peasantry. They generally just take the shcolars and artisans to their capital. The peasantry remained the same, even the crusaders didn't dismantle that rural peasantry of the region.

@@Brahmdagh The Assyrians did, and later the Romans did too. It was a good method for control. Resettling tribal groups were they had no local allegiance made them less likely to rebel,

Tbf tho it was reported that some of the exiled Samaritans moved to Greece in the 2nd century BCE but they weren't very popular at all

@@iqweaver naa historically speaking the Romans were the real first ethnic cleansers in the region. Pre-roman Classical era deportation would just be of elites who could galvanise the populous into revolting against them

I'd actually argue some of the "lost tribes" of Israel (i.e. people with Samaritan lineage) can be found in some northern Palestinian west bank villages. These are people who would've been forced to convert to Christianity especially under crusader rule or Islam after the Islamic conquest of the region as they unfortunately weren't seen as 'People of the Book' like Jews and Christians were. Surnames like al-Kahen (literally the arabicised version of the hebrew Cohen/priest) are a dead giveaway, for example. If they didn't keep that part of their identity and went 100% Muslim they'd have an actual arabic surname like al-Mulla or something.

Doesn’t seem very historically consistent. Firstly, why after 18 years? 18 years of age being the threshold to adulthood is an extremely modern idea. In Jewish tradition age 13 in the threshold or perhaps a little older for such a long trip but still 18 would have been completely arbitrary and unlikely. Also as you might know, sub Saharan Africa was almost completely cut off from the rest of Africa and euroAsia historically due to the huge dessert of wasteland between and mostly had trading ties with the Indian Ocean trading routes. So for the Queen and later the prince to make that kind of trip to a land they had absolutely no previous relation with seem extremely unlikely and borderline mythical. Their then later connection or claims of connection likely came from the Arab peninsula of which they were far more likely to be connected to.

It seems most of them made it to Israel in the second half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, they aren't really well-accepted by Israeli society at large. Pity.

No we didn’t. Queen Saba was already a first testament believer that’s why she has two names. One is her baptism name, Makeda and the other her birth name Saba

@@BR-bi7ok that’s man made. We never had our land stolen or her lost any wars like the others through the protection of God

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Showing diversity of thought and skill is important, not race or color. Meritocracy is the only way to survive, since we don't have to worry about survival of the fittest any longer.

It would be impractical and pointless to do any more than that. Imagine the logistics and resources it would take to transport an ENTIRE kingdom's worth of people. Even today it would be a massive undertaking.

@@porkadillo9752 Not really. The Trail of Tears was accomplished fairly cheaply. You'd be surprised how easy mass deportations can be done with just the right amount of political will, and these kingdoms of antiquity were much smaller. I'm not saying that this was what happened, just that it isn't as difficult as some people make it sound.

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I find scholars always get details like these wrong but they are sooo sure they are right about what they interpret. They assume way too quickly that every religious text must often be clumsily put together

@@agis230 its not that... The translation between Hebrew wnd English makes mistakes many times and even in Hebrew, remember... Hebrew exist more than 2000 years, some words changed their meaning, and every day Hebrew is a bit different than the Hebrew you'll find in the Bible

@@eladjellinek843 How is what you're saying any contrary to what I said?

But they mingled with the women to the north east and that was their blood line gone for ever

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"Also, the Jewish view is that Simeon fled north after Rehoboam, and Benjamin took his place" I am interested in this. Isaac Asimov (in-between science fiction stories) conjectured that Simeon was simply assimilated into Edom, like eastern Reuben into Moab and Ammon. Such Simeonites as didn't want Edom [or Egypt] simply married into Judah. Asimov is like you and like me from the east. More like me (back then) and less like you Asimov didn't care for midrash. So - where's the midrash?

There are actually 13 tribes, the 12 is from the original 12 sons.

Lol where are Levi’s made, why did Pilgrims get corn when the Bible says Ruth ate it for dinner?

@@usmcairbornedaddy3761 Not sure what translation you're using (how old its language) but "corn" used to mean "grain" not just "maise", just as "apple" meant "fruit".

@@usmcairbornedaddy3761 Yeah, that's a translation thing. The Bible you're probably using uses an old translation for the word grain (in English, the word "corn" used to mean any grain - barley, wheat, emmer, spelt, oats, etc.). In the original Hebrew, the word used is קלי, which of course doesn't mean maize (which did not exist in the Old World until the 15th century), but rather just means roasted or toasted grain. Hope this helps!

It's nice to see someone actually reads the Bible! Yes, and Biblical archaeology has shown that, when the northern kingdom fell, Jerusalem grew to more than twice its former size. Probably, most Israelites in the northern kingdom were dispersed and lost, a Remnant always remained!

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Israel built those tunnels in the 80s before moving Palestinians into the gaza open air prison from birth to death no jobs no future no electricity at night no food. Israel is an internationally recognized genocide and apartheid state. They starve pregnant women and don't allow them to leave. When their sons grow up and defend them they get called terrorists and still are not allowed to leave to this day. It's literally a concentration camp only American mainstream media and certain racist others looking to make money on innocent lives in Palestine don't call it genocide but keep calling it the pleight of the Palestinians or Israel Hamas war but we know the truth. Hands off my tax dollars for this genocide and apartheid state of Israel that is not the victim America and the world stand with the people or Palestine forever 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 The Masonic Scofield Bible renamed Palestine published in 1913 with Israel go look at a 1905 Bible it will say Palestine not Israel in the map. Israel never meant a name for a land it's the children of Israel is the true name. They attempted to divide and conquer the three religions but will fail as God is the best of all planners.

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Yes, it is fascinating, and it seems many "religious scholars" do indeed say different things in Academic Circles and at Conferences than they do when doing apologetics or getting paid to address church groups. A wicked web indeed. What we learn or have been told often is more tradition or doctrine, than it is based in any fact and so much has been completely overturned by research, discoveries and archelogy. Make you think.

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I don't doubt it, put it's amazing we don't have a first hand account. Some trademan that was forced to relocate to Assyria. I guess there was no need, they might have done quite well. And they would have to find someone that was literate, and pay them a hefty fee, etc.

Its also in the Egyptian plagues where it says that a plague specifically for the cattle wipe out the entirety of the Egyptians' cattle, then there's a plague of flaming hail that wipes out the cattle again and then the last plague of the firstborn wipes out the firstborn of the Egyptians' cattle. This isn't even in a new book, its all within like 3 or 4 chapters. Needless to say, the Bible plays very fast and loose with the word "all".

Not to mention that archeologically there is no evidence for the battles there ever taking place, with one highly arguable exception.

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And they still live to this day

If the Canaanites were defeated and the elites were executed, then it's easy to say they were "destroyed"... but as they re-formed, they would still exist to be fought again.

Yes indeed. We know very little amount the early Anglo-Saxon migrations. History and mythology have been intertwined for most of, well, history.

Bede was a prominent racist who never left the village of his birth and got his history second hand and millennia after it was supposed to have happened.

@@andrewwhelan7311 Racist?

@@chendaforest Yes. An Anglo centricity focused on a master race narrative that described the native indigenous Briton's as lesser breeds. The ancient Briton's origin myths refer to a migration from the near East via Troy and eventually to the island of Britain. The later attempt by Anglo Saxon royal dynasty's making the Troy connection was cultural appropriation in an attempt to discredit a native lineage that went back centuries before the Saxon's set foot on the island. The same applies to the Arthur stories. Bede was indeed a racist, at least by today's standards.

@@andrewwhelan7311 well maybe by today's standards but I'm not sure we should judge people from the past by modern values. We doubtless could call him an antisemite and sexists too. It's an interesting to know though how Bede created this fanciful narrative.

He scattered us into every nation because of our iniquity. Now as prophecied we r waking up.

Lost means "that they forgot about their history and customs"

There's a Samaritan "book of Joshua" as well which looks like something collected during Late Antiquity. The Samaritans had the problem that, periodically, some outside force would smash them up. Then their children would have to collect the pieces again. Emperor Justinian hit them hard. The Sasanians and the first Muslims were pro-Samaritan (and Heraclius between them left them alone) but then the 'Abbasids hit them hard again.

According to the bible the northern tribes went astray ever since Jeroboam leaded them.

very interesting and plausible point of view

The Samaritan Pentateuch actually explains Deuteronomy. Historians have long been bothered by the fact that the Deuteronomistic History is very Israeli-centric instead of being Judah-centric as it should be if it was really written in the time of Hezekiah. There are even parts of the Deuteronomistic History which flat-out seem to consider the tribes of Judah and Benjamin as "others". The story of the priests "discovering" Deuteronomy in the Temple may actually reflect a real event given how the Samaritan Deuteronomy is different from the Jewish version. The current scholarly consensus is that the core of our Deuteronomy was written in the northern kingdom as an earlier attempt to centralize worship (of El, not Yahweh) at Mount Gerizim, and that traces of this can be seen in the core of the Samaritan Deuteronomy, even if the rest of the document had been "contaminated" by their reaction to the Judahite version later on. The Judahite priests probably got the original Deuteronomy and accompanying books from Israeli refugees and rewrote that canon to fit their worldview, expanding it include their own royal mythology.

In his video about the samaritans, he states that their torah is as old as the Jewish one

Absolutely

The children of Eliah ;)

There are some people practically doing that already and we haven't even found evidence of aliens yet. Never underestimate the capacity of the human imagination.

Oh absolutely. People already believe that gods themselves are aliens, so I wouldn't be surprised

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The vast majority ended up in Europe. From there the Bible was spread to the earth. The United States is and always has been the largest producer of bibles in the world. Sorry lot we have for leadership today. Africa did not fulfill the prophecies. My ancestors were Hebrew ostrogoths on the Danube Riveraround 600AD. Yes they were Hebrews.

Well said; frankly it's a bit offensive to see Ethiopian Jews put in the same category as Mormons when it comes to expressing an Israelite identity. Ethiopian Jews have been Jews for thousands of years, with a cultural and religious identity closely tied to other ethnic Jews, even while geographically separated - Mormons are not Jews in any way at all, and their usage of this identity is metaphorical and in service of a non-Jewish proselytizing religion that seeks to (as you said) replace Jews entirely.

There is also the Lemba Tribe of South Africa, who have long practiced Judaism, have genetic and cultural links to the Arabian Peninsula which their folklore said was their original home.

But they still aren't the lost tribe of Dan. Much to the contrary, they are likely from judah, not lost in any sense.

Genetic evidence? I've seen the autosomal results of Ethiopian Jews and it was identical to other Ethiopian Christians'. Not even a slight Levant shift. The Afro-Asiatic speaking East Africans, the Jewish ones included, do have significant Levant or Red Sea ancestry, but it's very old and has more to do with Natufians and early pastoralism than spread of Judaism. Eritrean Christians and certain northern Ethiopian ethnic groups have more Levantine DNA than Ethiopian Jews.

@@JohnDoe10350 Because ethiopian christians descent from ethiopian jews.

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Those lost tribes are called gentiles, and Greeks in the New Testament.

Almost like multiple writers were having trouble keeping everything straight over the centuries that these things were written and modified.

@@sobertillnoon to be honest I think in ancient times they might have understood this better than we do now, and thought nothing of it.

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Is the landless tribalization of Levi a bug or a feature? Was it an oversight and dismissal, or a reflection of a real historical tribal circumstance, or the insulation of a caste, or a development of the concept of separation of religion and state (it may fit by delanding the religious caste, but it may not fit since the Levites also filled basic civil service roles in governance, IIRC).

@@sobertillnoon no you have no clue what is going on. It is easy to understand how the tribal system works, and your theory would require all of the biblical authors to be idiots since your saying they can't keep straight a fairly sime system. You also aren't asking the interesting question: why did they feel a need to make a 12 tribes system in the first place? The system set forth in the Bible is as follows: There are 12 sons of Jacob. (12 tribes) One of these sons (Joseph) was then given 2 tribes by his father (Ephraim & Manasseh) (13 tribes?) But Levi was not given a territorial allotment and was distinguished from the other tribes. (12 normal tribes) But then one of these tribes got land on both sides of the Jordan (Manasseh) and the portions on either side of the Jordan are called half tribes (still 12 tribes) But Dan conquered land outside of it's allotment, in Naphtali, but this is still the same tribe as Dan in the south. Further, the region east of the Jordan is distinct from the rest of Israel. It is called Gilead, and it is made up of half of Mannaseh and Gad. Also Reuben. It describes a group of tribes that cover an area, not a single tribe. So Gilead is not a tribe. Kinda. It is another name for Gad kinda, like Bashan is another name for east Mannaseh. The Bible includes ways to divide Israel other than the 12 tribes to help describe the de-facto structure of Israel but it still uses the 12 tribes o refer to the ethnic origins of the people of Israel and it places the priestly class in it's own tribe seperate from the larger 12 tribes system. This is the kind of roughness you expect from actual history and not something an author would do if they were trying to make it up.

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@@amram1305 scoffer.

@@cpjv1987 no offense, but are you saying when Stephen was stoned to death under Saul's eyes that the gospel moved to heathen gentiles who arent Israelites?

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In the New World, the Mexica had the Atzlan myth.

Cambodia is so called because they claimed descent from the Vedic Kamboja tribe, if I recall correctly- you make a good point

Yup, everyone likes to think they are special or unique, a special people chosen by god or something. Silly really.

Yes, and it's interesting that "birth" or "descent" legends can shift. When the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrated to Britain, the ruling families traced their descent back to Woden, their chief god. But when they converted to Christianity, the descent was pushed further back, as Woden's descent was claimed to be from a son of Noah who was born in the ark! After the Norman Conquest, when the Continental influence grew, and classical legends became known at least among the ruling class, an alternate descent from the Trojans and the ancient Romans was claimed. Aeneas (son of Venus), who escaped the fall of Troy and founded Rome (supposedly) now became the founding father of Britain, through his descendant Brutus or Brut. This all became mixed up with the legend of King Arthur, who became the symbol of the ultimately failed attempt to defend the Roman legacy in Britain against the barbarian invaders. Very confusing, particularly when one considers that the people embracing this view of history were the English, descended from those barbarians, intermarrying with the remaining British! What can be better than a divine ancestor? Two or more!

@@elainechubb971 right, a lot of these mythologies tell us more about contemporary ideas than real history. During the nineteenth century, English identity was strongly linked to a wider Germanic or 'Teutonic' identity. This fell out of favour during the great war for obvious reasons. So the legendary King Arthur was rebranded as an English Celtic warrior who heroically fought back against the evil Hun, just like in the trenches.

The American Indians DNA is linked to 3 groups in Japan

I guess it could be possible that some Jewish people influenced the Japanese culture a bit even tho Japanese aren't descended from them

@@pharaongaming8617 It's more, I think, that Japanese as a language comes from a distinct group than the portion of Asia surrounding it and nobody can exactly tell to which language group it belongs to so it's easy to find a few analogies with a language of your choice if you really want. That it still tends to incorporate an inordinate number of loan words doesn't help.

Pretty weird documentary given that present-day Japanese are mainly descendants of Yayoi and Jomon peoples and are genetically not related to middle easterns.

@@efraim6960 Most '10 tribes theories' are not doing very well when put to a DNA-test

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Yes we need to hear about the Rasta 12 tribes!

@@LaNina_DJ Well, I think '12 Tribes' is a 'denomination' (if I may) of Rastafari... But, generally speaking, Rastas see themselves as spiritual successors to Israel, if not also literally.

If you know this subject that well. I have a question. The Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Are they decendants of the Hebrew priests?

@@alphavegas1 I do not know the answer to that one, sorry :/

@@matthewbateman6487 Man I feel like a lot of Rastafarianism is much closer to an ethical, Theistic religion than the Orthodox Christianity I was raised in. I really respect their commitment and I consider myself really lucky I got to see Sister Carol live at a Reggae concert.

No

That's what Herbert W Armstrong taught

The clown is here...

@@Tzimiskes3506 Hi, clown.

@@rainbowkrampus your projecting rainbow. Calm down. Just start thinking a bit more and you might just fall from the peak of the dunning-kruger curve, rainbow.

@@Tzimiskes3506 Ha! Now do the thing with the tiny car.

Very informative video. And here is why the tribes of Israel were rendered ambiguous. For thus sayeth The LORD: "All who seek Truth are Israel. Spirit is life, the flesh counts for nothing." Elijah has returned, as prophesied.

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God says they - are lost to themselves . and not to him God is spirit those who rship Him who riphinspirit und truth

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@@robinellis6237 Yes However there's a special place for Physical Yisrael and that's the Word of THE MOST HIGH YAH. Isaiah chapter 11.

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Makes sense

They discontinued from their heritage

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Agree. Adopted is most often used.

Mathematically speaking, if anyone is a literal descendant today, then everyone is just because of intermingling. Just as we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and Noah. 1 in 200 people are direct descendants of Genghis Khan even though he only lived 850 years ago, not 4,000. So we’re very likely all related to all 12 tribes, but whether the tribe in your patriarchal blessing is the one you’re predominantly descendant from, or the one you’re symbolically adopted into because of the role you’re destined to play in life, is often left ambiguous in the blessing.

My favorite part of the gospels was at the last supper when Peter said: "So thas it? What? This some kinda...New Testament?" and then everyone clapped as the credits rolled. Almost as good as the time Moses said "It's Mosin' time" and then he Mosed' all over Pharaoh and his army. Truly one of the stories of all time.

Israelites came from Africa

This comment wins the internet today.

@@davidripplinger8904 if only those 10 friends along the way were not antisemitic, I would have gladly accepted that fantasy

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A lot of people saw it as necessary to place themselves in Abrahamic history after conversion to Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. The Romans did something similar by placing themselves in Homeric history by identifying themselves with the Trojan prince Aeneas. It's all about trying to fit yourself in someone else's story.

I notice that this obsession with ancestry is mostly a North American thing. Probably because most of us who live here aren't native to the land. We either come from Europe or Africa or Asia or somewhere else.

@@arnulfo267 I'm a 4th generation American my ancestors came from Ireland and Germany and I have two different native American blood lines. So I'm a bit of a mixed mutt

It is very tragic. I’m the case of my people (The Agikuyu) we had a monotheistic religion that was a completely separate development from Abrahamic monotheism. Our ancestors had independently come to the conclusion that there was only One God and for hundreds of years had their own stories concerning God and their own manner of worship. Today, unfortunately, many of us worship and understand God through the historical and cultural lense of someone else. it is very tragic!

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