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by fortran77 378 days ago
> He revealed himself to them and only them, ignoring the rest of humanity all over the globe

That's absolutely not true. First of all, there was an enormous crowd of people: 600,000 families--millions of people--who received the revelation on Mt. Sinai. And secondly, G-d offered the Torah to all the peoples of the world. (https://www.sefaria.org/Sifrei_Devarim.343.2?lang=bi)

It's a fundamental principle of Judaism that all righteous people will be in the world to come, unlike Christianity.

All that being said, I will not be wagering that "Jesus" will come again.

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> That's absolutely not true. First of all, there was an enormous crowd of people: 600,000 families--millions of people--who received the revelation on Mt. Sinai.

It's true that it was very regional, within the reach of a group of people's ability to communicate.

> And secondly, G-d offered the Torah to all the peoples of the world.

Did he? Did all the other cultures of the world about that time simply not answer the door?

And how do we know that millions of people received this revelation? We only “know” this if we take this particular tribe’s myths to be fact.