The Rational Jew

God promised an eternal Davidic dynasty. Where is it? Challenge The Torah prophesies that David's throne will last forever. Considering that the Davidic throne was dismantled, the Torah errs in its prophesy and is therefore not divine. When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own issue, and I will establish his kingship. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he does wrong, I will chastise him with the rod of men and the affliction of mortals. But I will never withdraw My favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul, whom I removed to make room for you. Your house and your kingship shall ever be secure before you; your throne shall be established forever.  II Sam. 7:12-16     Your throne shall be established forever. Resolutions The eternal throne was conditional on good behavior Resolution Then GOD ...

This is another informal proof  to the divinity of the Jewish people. Claim The historical survival of the Jewish people can only be explained by divine intervention. Nations under the following conditions: Persecuted Spread across the world Exiled from their home land are expected to die out. How did the Jewish people survive under these fatal conditions? Counter-Argument There are three ways to counter this argument: Ignorance fallacy Proposed alternative mechanisms of survival Counter-examples Ignorance fallacy Effectively, the claim poses an unexplained scenario along with a hypothesis and suggests that if no explanation is given, the hypothesis is correct. This fallacy is sufficient to dismiss the claim.  On a related note, I have not come across anyone who pushes the claim with examples of nations/religions that did fail under stated conditions. Without establishing a trend or bringing evidence, the claim is suggesting that these conditions are fatal with nothing but an ...