The Jews are God's chosen people, because around 4000 bc, there was a nomadic tribe of people called the "Hebrews" who were pretty insignificant, until Moses, their leader claimed to have visions from God. So moses, seeing that there was nothing to unify his people, and fearing that his people would just scatter and dissapear into other cultures, needed to do something fast.
So Moses invented a God and then, becasue he was very smart (like most Jews are) wrote out a story of creation and laws that God demanded, so that He could control his people, make them greater (be fruitful and multiply) and give them something to live for that was an ideal.
The ideal was "the promised land" or "THat they were 'God's chosen people'"or the idea of "eternal life."
Well, obviously this worked swimingly up until the New Testament, when the romans got involved and saw the value of a political religion. So they invented, with the help of Paul - Christianity. It was close too - Christianity was fading
2007-03-05
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