Is it just a coincidence that the bible was written by the same people that it claims were god's chosen?

Question

Or is it just a history of those people that got misinterpreted over time and took on a life of its own?
Why would an all knowing, omnipotent god chose one small group of people on one insignifigant planet on the edge of a mediocre galaxy from among all the rest of the universe?

Answer 1

All religions do this either implicitly or explicitly, I love the fact that atheists are always called arrogant by believers yet it is we who say that we do not occupy any special place in the Universe.

Answer 2

They were chosen by God to be his disciples and they were suppose to be messengers for God. It isn't a history of misinterpretations because it was actually written back in the day, it has been interpreted since then but only the because the language was different. The small group of people obviously did a good enough job spreading God's word for us to be able to know about him today and he knew they would. They might not of been perfect examples of God, like one of the other answers said (but not as exagerated as that dude made it seem) but they're only human too so of course they wouldn't be. We're so insignificant, like you said, but how do you know on some other galaxy he's not doing the same thing somewhere else?

Answer 3

Remember that the Bible is a volume of books and has over 40 authors from all different times, backgrounds, countries, and 3 different languages. And it makes more sense that the Bible was written by people that knew themselves to be inspired and chosen by God. Would you prefer to read holy books that are written by people that openly claim to hate God and it definately not be the truth? I dont know about oyu but I want to learn from people that claim to have the truth, not from people that openly admit they do not have the truth.

The misinterpretation thinking never makes sense. We have over 5000 copies manuscript copies (more than any other ancient document) and there is less than a 1% variance. The Bible we have today is the same Bible the authors intended people to see.

Your 3rd objection makes a false assumption in that the earth is unimportant as well as humanity and that simply isnt the case. We are important to God, if it were not so we would have no history with him but we do! God has chosen to reveal himself through Jesus Christ and I think its a glorious and genius plan myself. Instead of mocking it, I would start taking advantage of it and start serving God!

Answer 4

That is an interesting thought, but the fact is, God raised up and used 44 bible writers who wrote about currant happenings at the time they were happening!
He saw to it that they were educated and could communicate what they were seeing, to others through their writings.
It is these writings that got into the bible. Notice, even though they were written over centuries, that there are several threads which run through the entire bible, and show it to be the work of someone far greater in knowledge than mere man.
That someone is Jehovah, not Jesus, his son. Jesus became a God. Jehovah always has been.

Answer 5

It seems this question comes across alot (diff wording). God chose simple men to represent Him b/c if He chose a perfect person.. then what glory would God get. One thing about God is that He shares His glory with NO ONE! Another thing, being that God is imnipotent (and don't you forget it) He can do as He pleases, He can do it when He pleases, etc. This is what seperates my GOd from other Gods. The Trinitarian God is a god of relationship with His creation and He is to glorify Himself in man and woman at all times.... it's the people who misinterpret Him.

Answer 6

Here read what the Bible says about that:
Deuteronomy7:6 "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 "The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but because the LORD loved you and kept the oath which He swore to your forefathers, the LORD brought you out by a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 "Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; 10 but repays those who hate Him to their faces,"

Answer 7

You'll find this with every religion. I have read religious texts from many countries, religions and each claims that it's way is the only true way to God.
Religion has been created by humans, and to get other humans interested, parables, stories based on fact and imagination are used to get people to follow a particular way of life, mainly for the general benefit of humans, especially adherents of that particular faith.
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life!

Answer 8

He had to choose somebody for the Messiah to come from. They are not "special" in that they in and of themselves have some wonderfulness in them. They are chosen and special because they obeyed God. God Himself set them apart, they didn't set themselves apart and God applauded. Abraham was a pagan before God spoke to him. This being a "chosen people" is something brought about by God to use them as the family group he kept purer than the world as an environment through which to send His only begotten Son into the world.
Why would non-believers in the God of the Bible write a biblical book. It's no coincidence. No one else would write about a biblical God if they didn't believe in Him. It makes sense that God's followers wrote about their God and that God used them to record His will in books.

Answer 9

EVERY religion does this sort of thing. It's called provincialism...a conceit that "we" are the best of all the world and most favored by (enter divine being of choice).

Yet another reason the Bible stories don't make sense. Supposedly there was a whole planet full of early civilizations developing. Why not hit them all at once with messiahs? Surely such a thing isn't impossible for an omnipotent being?

Let the excuses begin...

Answer 10

Well, since the OT is the story of a specific people and their relationship with their tribal God, of *course* they're going to be the "chosen people" of that tribal God!!!

MOST religious stories of various cultures have their Gods favor the people whose story it is.