When do two things cut from the same cloth, become no longer the same thing?In UC#1562, we discussed misperceptions of jungles and forests. Along those same lines is the ridiculous dichotomy between tribes and families. Due to current misperceptions, tribes and jungles go together, while forests and families and favorable, civilized, intelligent, better-behaved are matched.
Snatch all of that miseducated logic back and scratch all of that. This riddle created by ridiculousness is easily solved.
Has anyone ever heard of the twelve tribes of Israel?
Jesus is a descendant of the tribe of Judah.
There is almost an equal number of references to tribe and family in the Hebrew version of the bible. Family is first mentioned after The Flood. This first usage of family refers to the various types of creatures on the ark. (Genesis 8:19)
So, in either bible, who is tribe referring to? White people and Europeans don't have families and Black people and darker people don't have tribes. All of us belong to tribes and families because they are the same thing.
Because Jesus and the Father are One, then heaven is filled with nothing but tribes and clans and villages and Sem-Sem and Sem-Sen. Now we go back to the scene of the crime. Go to any internet search engine or any dictionary in paper form and look up tribe definition and then family definition.
What we learn is that this time the crime is not committed by modern definitions. Instead, the crime is committed by human media in many forms, that makes an incorrect intentional distinction between tribe and family, which makes the two seem different. I hear it frequently in articles and televised news reports. Listen for it and you will learn more of what's behind the use of certain words. To go from tribe to family is not a step up in class. It is merely a sidestep across the grass where it appears different because one side is grown in full sunlight and the other in official artificial light.
