arthra said:
My comment...
Thanks for the topic Quahom!
Well I kinda think this already occurred about a hundred years ago or so through the Manifestations of the Bab (1819-1850) and Baha'u'llah (1817-1892)... The message wasn't however what a lot of people at that time necessarily "wanted" to hear...that the nations should set about building a representative world government, an international court of arbitration, adopt a universal auxiliary language and establish peace and security for mankind and abolish class and race prejudice..but more and more people seem to be hearing the message and appreciating the need for it.
- Art
Actually, the occurrance was over 5000/6000 years ago, when God Himself established specific laws with Noah. They are called the "Seven" Noahidic Laws. At the time, the language of earth was allegedly one language already, and governments were to follow a single pattern. Courts and officers of the courts were to be just and fair. There was also no class or "race" persee at the time.
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Origin
According to the Biblical narrative, the
Deluge covered the whole world killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his family and the creatures of the
ark. After the flood, God seals a covenant with Noah with the following admonitions (
Genesis 9):
- Food: "Also, flesh with the life -the blood- in it do not eat." (9:4)
- Murder: "I will also inquire about your blood, your life, from all animals, and from each human I will inquire about his brother's blood. Who sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed, because in the image of God was man made."
The
Talmud (tractate
Sanhedrin 56a/b, quoting
Tosefta Sanhedrin 9:4) states that the instruction to not eat "flesh with the life" was given to Noah, and that
Adam and Eve had already received six other commandments. The remaining six are exegetically derived from a seemingly superfluous sentence in Genesis 2:16.
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The Seven Laws
The seven laws (commonly rendered as Sheva Mitzvot Shel Bnei Noach) are:
- Avodah zarah - Do not worship false gods.
- Shefichat damim - Do not murder.
- Gezel - Do not steal (or kidnap).
- Gilui arayot - Do not be sexually immoral (forbidden sexual acts are traditionally interpreted to include incest, bestiality, male homosexual sex acts, i.e. sodomy, and adultery.)
- Birkat Hashem - Do not "bless God" euphemistically referring to blasphemy.
- Ever min ha-chai - Do not eat any flesh that was torn from the body of a living animal (given to Noah and traditionally interpreted as a prohibition of cruelty towards animals)
- Dinim - Set up a system of honest, effective courts, police and laws.
The Talmud also states: "Righteous people of all nations have a share in the world to come" (Sanhedrin 105a). Any non-Jew who lives according to these laws is regarded as one of "the righteous among the gentiles".
Maimonides states that this refers to those who have acquired knowledge of
God and act in accordance with the Noahide laws.
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Definition of Noahides
According to
rabbinic Judaism, as expressed in the
Talmud, the Noahide Laws apply to all humanity through mankind's descent from one paternal ancestor who in Hebrew tradition is called
Noah (the head of the only family to survive during
The Flood). In Judaism, בני נח
B'nei Noah (
Hebrew, "Descendants of Noah", "Children of Noah") refers to all of mankind.
Judaism holds that
gentiles (
goyim "non-Jews [literally 'Nations']") are not obligated to adhere to all the laws of the Torah (indeed, they are forbidden to fulfill some laws, such as the keeping of the
Sabbath in the exact same manner as Israel [
citation needed]). Rabbinic Judaism and its modern-day descendants discourage
proselytization. The Noahide Laws are regarded as the way through which non-Jews can have a direct and meaningful relationship with God or at least comply with the minimal requisites of civilization and of divine law.
A non-Jew who keeps the Noahide Law in all its details is said to attain the same spiritual and moral level as Israel's own
Kohen Gadol (high priest) (Talmud, Bava Kamma 38a).
Maimonides states in his work
Mishneh Torah (
The laws of kings and their rulership 8:11) that a
Ger Toshav who is precise in the observance of these Seven Noahide commandments is considered to be a
Righteous Gentile and has earned a place in the world to come. This follows a similar statement in the
Talmud (tractate Sanhedrin 105b). However, according to Maimonides, a gentile is considered righteous only if a person follows the Noahide laws specifically because he or she considers them to be of divine origin (through the
Torah) and not if they are merely considered to be intellectually compelling or good rules for living.
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Noahide law differs radically from the Roman law for gentiles (
Jus Gentium), if only because the latter was an enforceable judicial policy. Rabbinic Judaism has never adjudicated any cases under Noahide law (per Novak, 1983:28ff.), although scholars disagree about whether the Noahide law is a functional part of
Halakha (cf. Bleich).
In recent years,
Noahide has come to refer to non-Jews who strive to live in accord with the seven Noahide Laws; the terms "observant Noahide" or "Torah-centered Noahides" would be more precise but are infrequently used. The
rainbow, referring to the Noahide or First Covenant (Genesis 9), is the symbol of many organized Noahide groups. A non-Jewish person of any ethnicity or religion is referred to as a
bat "daughter" or
ben "son" of Noah, but most organizations that call themselves בני נח are composed of gentiles who are keeping the Noahide Laws.
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