Do you believe that the Jews are the chosen people to teach the word of God?

Question

This is what I was told by a very pious Jewish scholar, and I believe it is true. Is it possible that this is the full meaning of the concept of "chosen people" or do they have rights that supercede other humans?

Can anyone actually answer the question I am asking?

Answer 1

From reading your other questions I can conclude that you are a bit racist.

All you are trying to do is incite people

If you had half a brain and did a little research on the middle east you might get the answers you seek

But I don't think that's what you want. You already know the answers you just don't like them

Answer 2

They were, but when the curtain covering the most Holy center of the Temple torn open at the death of Christ, it showed for everyone to see that the Holy Spirit no longer resided in the Temple. Prior to that time, only the High Priest could ever see inside the Most Holy.

It should be noted that today's Christians are making all of the same mistakes, by only living by those scriptures we feel are the least disruptive to our lives. Christians are the New Israelites or chosen people, by they have fallen away just like the original chosen people.

Answer 3

I think you have to examine the Scriptures a bit more carefully, and you will find that the underlying assumption of your question is not necessarily right on the mark. If I am not mistaken, the Bible never refers to "the Jews" as the chosen people. It refers to the house of Israel as the chosen people of God. What is the difference, you may ask? It is this: Israel, God's chosen people, consists not only of Jews, but of Gentiles of all races and lands and languages who have been righteous before the Lord. It is the body of Christ - the Church. [By the way, the Bible also says "salvation is from the Jews" - but this is a specific reference to Jesus Christ, the Saviour - not a general reference to the Jewish faith in the time after Christ's Incarnation.]

Some of the members of that body are Jews, and some are not. And there will be more Jews who return to the House of Israel, the Church, in the end times (as St. Paul alludes to when he talks about the cultivated olive branch being regrafted back onto the tree).

So Israel is the chosen people of God. In the times before Christ, indeed the spiritual Israel did consist primarily of the Jews. But since Christ, the Church as been given to the entire world; and in fact, the synagogue of the Jews has been rendered fruitless because it did not / and does not recognize its Lord and Master and Creator.

From that point of view, it is not possible that the Jews could be the chosen people "to teach the word of God", since they themselves do not possess it. They ceased to possess it when they rejected the Word Incarnate, the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who "came unto His own and His own received Him not" (Gospel according to St. John).

Finally, one last point. The concept of the "chosen people" (whether Jews or non-Jews or whatever) is grossly misunderstood in the West. Somehow it is associated with the idea that this "chosen people" can do no wrong in the eyes of God; that they are meant to be pre-eminent in a worldly sense. But this is not the case. They are chosen to be God's people and to have a relationship with Him, which includes having His grace and protection bestowed upon them when they are righteous, and being chastened by Him when they are not. They are chosen to be an EXAMPLE to all mankind of what it means to be in a right relationship, or not in a right relationship, with God. Those people who are not God's people - his chosen, or his elect (the Church) - do not necessarily have the same spiritual benefits. Why? Because God is not with them - and not because He has rejected them, but because they have rejected Him. As it says in the Book of Psalms of the evil doers (clearly not God's people):

"Chasten them not, lest at anytime they should remember Thy law".

So the "chosen people" does not have any rights - particularly in a temporal or secular sense - that supercede other humans. In fact, they have more of a responsibility to live according to God's will, and more responsibility for the consequences of not doing so.

Answer 4

Yes, the Jews are God's chosen people made by the everlasting covenant the Lord made with Abraham. God said the Jewish and Israel are the apple of his eye.

Romans 3:29-31
29 Is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith. 31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Not at all! Rather, we uphold the law.

Romans 9:1-5
1I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit— 2I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, 4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. 5Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised![a] Amen.


God is married unto the nation of Israel. God will send his son ,Jesus Christ back to earth to claim the believers, who make the church, to heaven for the marriage feast.

Matthew 24:14
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come

Answer 5

thats basically what the chosen people means

-look where Christiantiy and Islam came from?

before the Jews the concept of morality did not exist in society.
the idea that something is fundamentally wrong not just because society says so and can punish you was only brought by the Jews.

the Jews basically by being a "light onto the nations" have brought morality and ethics to the world

Answer 6

I am Jewish but i don't believe in the idea of one religion being the "Chosen People"... If there truly is a god, then we are ALL his chosen people... because god made all of us.... Jews, Hindus, Shintos, Christians, Buddhists, etc.

Every religion has a central figure that equates to "god"... so, in effect, there could never really be a "Chosen People".

Answer 7

Pastors are also teachers and they are not all from Jewish backgrounds but many of them study the Old Testament Scriptures and learn about Greek and Hebrew.
There is enough information in the bible and books concerning God and Jesus and the prophesies and History of the Jews to keep you busy for a life-time.

Answer 8

They are chosen because of Abraham...when Abraham had Ishamel, God told him that He would make a great nation of peoples from Ishmael's descendants because they were sons of Abraham. (mostly Muslim lands)....But God told Abraham that it would be Isaac's descendants that He would make His covenant with...(the Jewish people).

Ever since then, the 2 brothers' descendants have been fighting. Because the Jews are the favored sons. The goal of Ishmael is to kill the sons of Isaac so that they might inherit the favor instead. (which, of course, will not work.)

Answer 9

I am a Christian and I believe that God chose Israel to reveal himself to mankind. Now that God has chosen to reveal himself through his Son Jesus, God through his great mercy has opened the door to salvation to all that believe that Jesus is the Christ. No one branch can boast that it is better than another branch--Romans 11:18-- because faith is a gift from God. No one has rights that supercede anothers.

Answer 10

Well all of the Christan and Muslim beliefs stem from Judaism, but just remember it's all hog wash, anyone can prophesies that the world will end. Everything in the Universe has a beginning and an end. Just common sense. Nothing Godly or magical about it.