I emphasize to both those who identify as Hebrew Israelites and those who identify with those presently occupying what is known today as the nation of Israel that they should practice an inclusive rather than exclusive doctrine concerning who could possibly be descendants of the original biological Jews/Israelites.
My position is clear for all who identify as Jew or Israelite or Hebrew Israelite or some variations of those.
If one identifies as a biological Israelite or as a biological non-Israelite no matter what terminology one uses, that is fine with me.
To each of them I say the following.
I nor anyone else can conclusively show that you are not just as you cannot conclusively show that you are. It is only by your faith that you can justify that you are the identity you choose concerning folks long ago.
Oral history is not conclusive because someone up the ancestry chain could have intentionally lied or made a mistake and passed that on to descendants who passed it on.
DNA is speculative not conclusive that far back in time.
History books written by humans and scriptural speculative interpretations are not conclusive proof. For history books are always based on the writers’ limited information, purpose, and perspective. Speculative interpretation is always based on the person or persons presuppositions, desires, and goals.
Love says recognize the person who claims to be an Israelite or Jew as such. No one loses anything by such a recognition.
