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I don't get it. There are not a number of Jews equivalent to the grains of sand nor the stars in the sky (100 billion stars x ??? trillions of galaxies?), eith
by checkyoursudo 9y ago
I don't get it.
There are not a number of Jews equivalent to the grains of sand nor the stars in the sky (100 billion stars x ??? trillions of galaxies?), either today or in total whom have ever existed. There will never exist a number of Jews equivalent to the number of stars in the universe. There will never at any point in the future exist a total number of people, much less just Jews, who have ever lived to match even close to the number of stars in the universe.
Why are you taking this passage in the Torah to say millions, except for the fact that that's a magnitude that is relatively close to the number of Jews? You're seeing a fit that doesn't exist.
If a Greek astronomer said there were 5000 or 9000 stars, and a Jewish astronomer said there were millions, or even billions, of stars, they would both be as far away from 10^24 (or more) by almost the same magnitude.
The Torah is not giving correct guesstimations of any of these quantities. It's vague and no more accurate than your Greek dude saying, "dunno, maybe 10,000?" It's just saying, "man, you'll have a lot of descendants." If someone told me I'd have between 5000 and 9000 descendants, I'd probably think that was quite a lot.
This doesn't strike me as particularly convincing. If it's good enough for you, then by all means. But it is anything but proof.