Talk:Gentile/Archives/2015/November

Gentiles are not just non-Jews, but non-Israelites.

I read your article and the term Gentile actually means any non-Israelite since all Israelites are not Jews. There are twelve tribes of Israel since Jacob (Israel) had twelve sons and each one represented a tribe of Israel. In I Kings chapter 12 Rehoboam took over after his father Solomon had died and raised taxes on the people. Eleven tribes of the nation of Israel seceded from him which left Rehoboam king only over Judah and not over all Israel.

  The term "Jew" is short for any member of the tribe of Judah and still stick with them to this day, but the rest of the tribes are still around someplace on this earth so Jews are only 1/12 of the entire nation of Israel.  Many do not know it, but they could be physical children of Jacob or Israelites.
 We call the few members of the tribe of Judah who occupy that sliver of land in the Middle East Israelites, but they are only a small fraction of that entire nation.
  So finally, the correct term for Gentiles is ANY NON-Israelite, not just any non-Jew.  The remainder of Israel is not counted with the Gentiles, but are HEBREWS.  Hebrew simply means a worshiper of the true God.
 Regards
  Carl Binion
 198.109.124.3 (talk) 20:54, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

That is not a universally agreed truth. The Samaritans were the remnants of the other ten Hebrew tribes (the people who "know not whom you worship") left from the Assyrian invasion, and they were not considered Jews in the time of Jesus. The "gentiles" in the time of Ezra were certainly not considered "Jews" for the purpose of marriage and family. Those wives and children were expelled into the wilderness to starve. The modern day Palestinians are mostly of Hebrew stock, and they are not considered Jews in these times. Grammar'sLittleHelper (talk) 18:17, 17 November 2015 (UTC)