Why would he not choose us all?
2007-01-08 15:59:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He chose the Jews, when they failed him, he chose the Christians, when they failed him he chose the Muslims.
Now that he's had his three strikes, he's outta there!
Science rules today and forevermore!
2007-01-08 16:04:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Really the whole "chosen people" idea is complete bull sh!t it was just created by various religions to give themselves supremacy over everyone else. If they say they are god's chosen people it makes everyone else "unchosen" and not as good and everyone likes to have someone to look down on.
Also it makes everyone who is "unchosen" think 'hey I wanna be chosen too' so they go and join the religion, and the more people in a religion the better they think they are. It also makes them sound more credible if they have a lot of members and people are used to hearing their ideas eg if christians were a minority in America, everyone would look at them as being as crazy as Scientologists
2007-01-09 00:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by helehelo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's ask the Chosen People.
In the Torah it states not that G-d chose a specific people and gave them a Torah, rather he offered it to the whole world, and the Jews were the ones to accept it. So G-d loved them because they chose Him. And that is how they became chosen.
2007-01-09 00:03:07 · answer #3 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lord of this world is satan but God does have a chosen people study the word to show yourself approved.
2007-01-09 00:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus Freak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't make the mistake of thinking "chosen" means necessarily a GOOD thing. The Jews were God's chosen people insofar as a study of their history is a microcosm of a human life.
Close to God, far from God, redeemed, restored, and close to God.
2007-01-09 00:26:36 · answer #5 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler thought of the Aryan as the supreme race. God supposedly thinks the Jews are the chosen people.
Notice a similarity?
2007-01-09 00:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe because no one knew him, The Jewish God and he decided too chose a country to show himself to the world, the Hebrews, or Jews
2007-01-09 00:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He has chosen us all. But how many are willing to chose Him
2007-01-09 00:03:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you're referring to Israel...
He didn't so much "choose" a people as "create" one that would have characteristics that suited His purposes. Kind of like how you "choose" a character in an RPG. (Ignore this sentence if you're not a gamer.)
God started with one man, Abram, who had the unique characteristic of being astoundingly trusting and obedient to Him (which is what God needs more than anything else for us to be useful to Him) even though this God was kind of a "stranger" to him - in other words, not the god of his people, family, city, or region. In return God blessed him and promised to make a nation of him. A similar relationship ensued with Abram's (now Abraham) son Isaac, and HIS son Jacob. From Jacob's 12 sons, God created a nation. This nation had it's origins in a family that followed God, and so was born into a history and culture of worshipping Him, whereas no other such culture existed at this time, not that we know of for sure anyway.
God orchestrated this fledgling nation's course in history to further "grow it up" into a nation for Him, like bringing it to Egypt and letting it endure slavery for 400 years, before miraculously rescuing it and giving it freedom and a land of its own - things that ought to have instilled a reliance on God.
In the end, though, the people God "chose" to represent Him to the world never lived up to their purpose - they turned away from Him into idolatry and wickedness, He let them fall into disaster until they wised up and came back to Him, and they ran off again - over and over in a tedious cycle that spanned millenia. Through this God demonstrated that no matter how good an opportunity man has to be righteous, he is fallen and sinful and incapable of living up to God's standard. "ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
But God DID choose us all, when He sent Himself to pay the price for our shortcoming, the sin that separated us from Him, a price we were incapable of paying for ourselves. In that moment, the wall was torn down and every person was free to come to God, through Christ. And for us to choose Him is exactly what He wants, because He chooses us.
Shortly after this in history, we see God abandoning the Israel who rejected him and raising up His church, a new "nation" of people of every ethnicity, background, and walk of life. But the difference between this "people" and Israel is that these "Christians" as they came to be called, have each been "remade" by God upon accepting Christ, into new beings which are capable by depending on God's power inside them to do what Israel failed in. To serve Him faithfully, glorify Him in all aspects of life, and represent Him to others.
Anyone, absolutely ANYONE, can be a part of this "people", there is no one that God does not want. As you can see. God HAS "chosen us all".
2007-01-09 00:29:52 · answer #9 · answered by Matt c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were the only ones willing to serve him.
2007-01-09 00:04:42 · answer #10 · answered by Jonjenjess 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋