re: DNA analysis shows that Jews and Arabs Descended from Canaanites

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You should learn a little more about Roman history. The people who became the Romans fought more than the Etruscans. They also fought other Latin-speaking tribes or groups, and the “Romans” definitely viewed themselves as being different and more special than those other groups. I think SFP’s analogy of the Aeneas myth is pretty spot on.

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Roman language, and DNA are very similar to the Italian tribes, the religion is totally different.

Again this is well documented.

It aligns extremely well with waves of elite replacement.
The most recent one was Greek traders brining the Greek pantheon in the early 1st millennium BC

The Romans didn't home growntheir gods.

Read some Mary Beard.

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You are fluent in Koine Greek?


I actually know people who are.

But yes one can read it with a little help.

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Both of which imply you are NOT fluent in Koine Greek

Yet you make comments like this

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Yes one did, and in the Greek one can translate Luke protos to refer to the Census before that one.

It's translated in John and Corinthians that way.

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You are assuming that someone else's translation is accurate and free of bias and/or agenda. You're making definitive comments about a language about which you know almost nothing.

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you're proving to be fluent in skepticism and dodging his argument.

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Mo Jeaux is doing a good job of dismantling his argument

My point is that he's basing his argument on details about "translation" of a language about which he knows nothing. He taking the word of people who agree with his POV. The chances of bias confirmation are extremely high



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I actually know people who are.

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Nice.

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The "Really? You were there?" line is so rich because it's coming from someone who probably bases his entire life on a single event that occurred 2000 years ago, for which he wasn't there to see himself

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I do not. However, it's irrelevant. I'm not running around saying "the earth is x years old and I'm emotionally committed to that stance." The point is no one was there and can say for sure. Some things seem to look a certain way but that's not conclusive evidence, no matter how many people side with that view.

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These accounts are written down centuries later

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Ah yes, the old Ehrman's telephone game. It works at the popular level but scholars don't really buy that. Not even Ehrman who will tell you in person that he believes the Bible is essentially 100% reliable

IOW, "written down later" does not equal false nor does it injure the transmission process. As in, the Canaanite culture of polytheism did not exist prior to the Hebrew monotheism in that they were originally polytheists, at least as far as the evidence itt has been discussed

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Why would the people who have the monotheism developed from the Canaanite polytheism want to project a (dishonest) history that they're completely separate from the polytheistic heretics?

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You can't even see that this moronic question underscores the absurdity of the idea in general.

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to create a distinct legitimacy for that population

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Why would they want/need to do that when they really weren't distinct to begin with. You really can't think this through. The whole idea is massively stupid. As I said, it's like Americans trying to convince themselves the country was borne from Communism in order to distinguish themselves from the evil democratic Europeans

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in competitive religious scenarios

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But they weren't "competitive" according to the idea. They were the same, remember? What you're talking about is totally different. They would have waged war with their gods on the standard and having faith that their "gods" were superior. But even that is stupid because they allegedly had the same gods. The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever from a socio-cultural standpoint.

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After the centuries of evolution into the "Israelites"

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This is glossing over a WHOLE BUNCH of necessary info and you're just skipping to a completely ad hoc conclusion.

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That's why they made up the origin story to differentiate themselves and emphasized their new religion to further castigate the heretical "out group"

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Like I said, you're skipping a TON of questions. Why did they do this to begin with? What did they think they were going to gain by doing this? How did they convince their culture to do a religious 180 and then lie to them about their past? How did all of the cultural themes and ecclesiology come into being?

Utter nonsense

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almost all of them created specific origin myths

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The history of the biblical people is NOTHING like any of the other ANE cultures. Not even close. Not the Enuma Elish. Not the code of Hammurabi.

Again, you are trying to wade into waters that you apparently know nothing about yet you are slinging around conclusions like you know something. It's laughable

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me cutting through some of the red tape with a few of these guys

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Ok 14th amendment "expert"

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how do you square a 6,000 year old earth with the fossil record of dinosaurs?

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It's amazing that you think YEC doesn't have an answer for this. They make the case that radio carbon dating is known to be less than 100% accurate at longer historical periods for multiple reasons.

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Mo Jeaux is doing a good job of dismantling his argument

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I've made several responses that have gone unanswered