A prophet is born a prophet, they don't become "false" because they struggle with sins great or small. The truth of their ministry is measured against the word, not subjective human standards.
Here's what people don't like about God, he chooses who he wants. He chose the Jews to bring forth the messiah & we are indebted to them for this (Rom. 15:27.)
@MulaMule300@WesleyLHuff By this logic, "Caesar was a Roman" is anachronistic—his Rome isn't modern Rome or Italian nationality. Words evolve. So why does only Ioudaios get held to this impossible standard?
@MulaMule300@WesleyLHuff You moved the goalposts: "no Jews in the OT" → "the term evolved." & "post-Temple hardening" isn't settled consensus—it's your model. Even BDAG's "Judean" gloss is contested, not proof; scholars split. Second Temple Judaism already had cohesive identity pre-70AD.
@MulaMule300@WesleyLHuff Historical revisionist circles want to shoehorn an illogical translation. 'Ioudaios' (Jew) shows up in Philo, Maccabees, & other texts written BEFORE 70AD—describing both ethnic and religious identity. BDAG confirms. Your 'post-Temple invention' claim is just factually wrong
@MulaMule300@WesleyLHuff yeah, I'm not reading all that, I translated ancient Hebrew for 6 years & taught it in grad school, I know how translation works & "Judean" makes no sense. "Jew" is the only thing that fits.
@MulaMule300 Do you understand how translation works? Jew(s) is the overwhelming scholarly consensus for John 4:22 across lexicons & Bibles. Even common sense says that doesn't fit the context. "...for salvation is from the judean." No.
@MulaMule300@WesleyLHuff Do you understand how translation works? Jew(s) remains the overwhelming scholarly and translational consensus for John 4:22 across lexicons, critical editions, and Bibles. Even common sense says that doesn't fit the context. "...for salvation is from the judean." No.
The farther away the very early church drifted from the truth and expectation of a literal millennial kingdom in Jerusalem the more it slipped into apostasy.