I can only get in one prophecy right now, maybe another later today, though.
The Torah says that there is only one animal that has split hooves and doesn't chew it's cud, (the pig). Deuteronomy 14:8.
If the Torah is not the word of G-d but was written by man, how can such a man know something like that. In the whole world and from all the animals that werent even discovered by then a "man" said "there is no other animal then a pig that has split hooves and does not chew it's cud". Only a being that's ALL-KNOWING can know something like that and put it in the Torah.
By the way, people look for an animal like this, people in the Jewish community who are trying to disprove the Torah. They never found nothing yet and they never will.
But, if they do, thats the END to Judaism.
If a man wrote the Torah then why would he make a statement like this. If it would be found not true, that would be the end the religion.
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I wouldn't claim to be knowledgeable on all animal species so really don't know if other animals exist with split hooves and that chews a cud. However, it seems to me that if primitive man made this claim based only upon his local knowledge of known animals and it just happend to be correct the world over then he would simply be correct by accident.
A prediction by the same "All knowing God" who claims pi is exactly 3, that there are four-legged, winged animals, and that snails melt as they move. Real trustworthy guy.
Would you stop harping on the four-legged, winged animals? After all, dragons, gryphons, hippogryphs, sphinx, and all the rest exist, right? Right? Oh wait, we're talking about the Real World (tm)? My bad.
Gee that's a great reason to not eat an animal.http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Lev/Lev011.html#1
Leviticus 11
It says in (4) that camels are unclean for their hoof is NOT divided - this is incorrect, it is.
(20) Tell me of these birds that creep on all fours please?
(22) All is saved - you're allowed to eat locusts. yummy - makes up for all those lobsters you're not allowed to eat.
Anyway - back to the point - odd how not even cows were mentioned let alone Kangaroos and all sorts of other yummy things it'd be vitally important to let people know they were allowed to eat in the future!
Most animals have split hooves - the toes are more developed in some more than others - very few animals are ruminants.
Animals (shall we even be kind and narrow it down to mammals as birds, insects, fish and tortoises have their own verses) that have split hooves and don't chew their cud.
* All carnivores! (yes weasels got mentioned in (29) and ferrets in (30) as being unclean)
* All the nonruminatory herbivores - elephants, hippos, etc
* All omnivores, primates etc.
* rodents.
* bats (except the bible said they were birds)
* Monotremes
* Peccaries, including warthogs, hedgehogs, armadillos etc
Then there's the hard hooved animals that cannot be eaten - horses, cattle etc.
So what flesh can you eat. = scaly fish, pigeons, grasshoppers, goats, sheep, (camels except the bible forbids it) llamas and antelope (if you could catch them or knew they existed -- most arabian antelopes were large and fierce and probably the basis of the unicorn legends (also mentioned in the bible)).
You get the point!
No, if they found one, it would also not be kosher, just like they extrapolated from the types of birds that are and aren't kosher to determine whether birds that aren't from that region are kosher.
Actually, rabbits do chew their cud. They do it by eating their own droppings instead of by regurgitating it, however.
So, who would have thought that the existance of a single hippopotamus, with cloven hooves and no cud chewing would be a greater danger to Judaism than the Crusades, pograms, holocaust and Palestinian terrorists?
Praying mantises are four legged winger animals, if you consider that their front appendages are highly specialized and employed more like arms.
Julian,
Yeah, like if someone found out that bats were actually mammals, or rabbits didn't chew the cud, or crickets had six legs. Finding out any of those would be the end of the religion, too, right?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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