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Hmm, well going by your logic, if any Kingdom besides Israel controlled them, you need texts from them saying they controlled those mines, spice trades into Israel, and harbors. Do you have any such texts from Egypt, Assyria, or Babylon?

And we have some evidence. F'rex the Battle Relief of Pharoah Shoshenq I mentions his battle in the "Highlands of David." According to him, he won everything, of course, and then just... didn't feel like actually ruling his newly conquered lands, and went home for a cold drink I guess. You...

The bible says pretty clearly that Solomon never saw war at all, all the wars were fought by David. Solomon was privileged to build the temple specifically because God wanted a man of peace and not war to build it. So of course there would be no mention of wars with Solomon, that's exactly...

I'm guessing he's misinterpreting 1 Kings 4. Solomon was paid tribute by every Kingdom from the Euphrates to the Philistines who were next to Egypt, all the peoples David won wars against and forced into unfavorable treaties. He wasn't actually directly administering those lands himself.

In the existing canon, no demons are named. Not even Satan's actual name is known, Lucifer is from Folklore and actually refers to the planet Venus and Satan just means "Adversary" or "Accuser." In scripture he's normally identified as Ha'Satan, literally "The Adversary" to separate him out...

Solomon the Sorcerer is largely derived from the apocryphal Greek text The Testament of Solomon. It's got some pretty obvious greek mythology references such as seven demon sisters identified as the Pleiades who claim to live on Mount Olympus so very clearly not actually written by anybody...

We do have archeological evidence for Solomon's reign. I mean, aside from the bible itself which is, y'know, typically considered a requisite for being a Christian...

That's some fine twisting of scripture you have going on there. What is the context of Genesis 30, just one single verse right in front of the one you quoted? New International Version When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister. So she said to...

I fear for you if you think that was a good marriage. Jacob's wives fought endlessly and from events like his losing his temper and yelling at Rachel over it in Genesis 30:2. Actually, most of Genesis 30 consists of documenting how much they fought over Jacob and each other (I always get a...

Yeah, you know I really don't want to find myself somehow on ATP's side here but I feel I need to point out, that's not the only way Κύριος is used in the Bible. It is used as a respectful form of masculine address somewhat analogous to how we'd use "Sir," not just as an address for Yahweh...

Having discussed the Bible with Jehovah's Witnesses more than once, let me just say for the record they'd disagree with ATP very strongly, they do not believe in a Trinity whatsoever and wouldn't put such teachings in the Watchtower. https://www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/is-jesus-almighty/