Jewish people?

Question

why do you consider yourselves God's choosen people?
Why is it that you had to have your own country, Israel, even though you knew there were people already living there?
Why do you have to have a church in the same exact spot where there is a Muslim church?

Nobody answer this anymore because Rabbit has given me the best answer i think i will get. No, it was not my intention to ask these questions in a deragatory way but out of pure curiosity, how else was i suppose to phrase this?

Answer 1

You've got things backwards, and I'm not Jewish. The Bible (Old Testament for Christian Bibles) describes how God selected a people and how God did the choosing. God moved those people to that land, and yes there were people there before them. God wanted to punish those early people of the place then called Canaan, but Israel did not fully obey and those remaining people caused the nation of Israel problems. God punished Israel by booting them out for a while, but permitted their return. During the time of Jesus, Rome was the big power in that part of the world and the land was controlled by Rome. These Jews (for Judah, a tribe of Israel, and Jerusalem was their capital) revolted against Rome. Rome put down the rebellion and destroyed Jerusalem again. The Roman emperor Hadrian found the whole situation there unacceptable still later and to punish them, drove out most of the remaining Jews (but not all) and called the land Palestine. Several centuries later, Mohammad traveled to the area. He had a wife who was Christian and another wife who was Jewish, and wanted to see the land of these "people of the book" as he calls Christians and Jews in the Quran. There he supposedly had some special vision, and from the Temple Mount, where the Jewish Temple had been, as rennovated and reconstructed by Herod the Great (back in and slightly before Jesus' days) but razed by Roman general (and later emperor) Titus. Mohammad rode a winged horse into heaven from that site. So, he marked it as revered. His followers later constructed a Mosque at the site, which some believe is the location of the Jewish Temple, though some say it is next to or near there. In Jewish prophecy, Ezekiel described a reconstructed temple. In the King James Version, it speaks of "a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place" (42:20) which may or may not be a description of the new Temple next to the Mosque. I do know that after the 1967 war when Jerusalem was captured from Jordan, the country that owned the rest of the land from the 1947 division, a cannon was pointed at the Mosque and the question asked about destroying it, "If we don't do it now, will it ever be done?"--permission was not granted and the mosque stayed. That's the real story in brief.

Answer 2

Good questions. When God spoke to Abraham, he told him the Jews were the chosen people. It's in the Old Testament which Jews, Christians and Muslims read. When, he spoke to Moses, he told him to go to the land that is now called Israel and that it was set aside for his chosen people, the Jews. That is why Jewish people feel they have a right to live there. As for wanting a temple where there is currently a muslim church, I don't know. Unless it's in the spot where the original Temple is that was destroyed. It was rebuilt and destroyed again. They were considered the only "true" temples. Other places of worship for Jews may be called temples but are not actual temples, they are synagogues or shuls.

Answer 3

The place you refer to, Israel, was always Jewish land. Jesus was Jewish...

That land belonged to the Jewish people from the year 0. I am Christian and if you read the Old Testament most religions see them as the chosen people. Its a bit ridiculous to say that everyone considers to be that.
As for Muslim places, there are more of those around the world then any Jewish Synagogues so I don't know what you are basing your facts on.
Is this a Muslim ranting at jewish people? I noticed all your questions seem to be very derogatory.


The Jewish nation is often referred to as "the Chosen People."

Many people (including Jews) are uncomfortable with this idea. They perceive the concept of a "Chosen People" as racist and mindful of the Nazi concept of a supreme "Aryan" nation. It appears to contradict the accepted Western ideal of all people being equal before God.

Is the Jewish concept of choseness racist?

When the Torah refers to the Jewish people as "chosen," it is not in any way asserting that Jews are racially superior. Americans, Russians, Europeans, Asians and Ethiopians are all part of the Jewish people. It is impossible to define choseness as anything related to race, since Jews are racially diverse.

Yet while the term "Chosen People" (Am Nivchar) does not mean racially superior, choseness does imply a special uniqueness.

What is this uniqueness?

Historically, it goes back to Abraham. Abraham lived in a world steeped in idolatry, which he concluded was contradicted by the reality of design in nature.


Abraham invested years of dedication and effort to be God's representative.

So Abraham came to a belief in God, and took upon himself the mission of teaching others of the monotheistic ideal. Abraham was even willing to suffer persecution for his beliefs. After years of enormous effort, dedication and a willingness to accept the responsibility to be God's representative in this world, God chose Abraham and his descendents to be the teachers of this monotheistic message.

In other words it is not so much that God chose the Jews; it is more accurate that the Jews (through Abraham) chose God.

Answer 4

They are chosen because God said they were His chosen people. Asking why is like asking your father why he loves you.

Regarding the dome of the rock, the temple of Solomon was there in Jerusalem first.