Why didn't God love everyone else enough to speak with them, appear before them and give them laws too?
He ignored Africans, and Asians, and Europeans, and Native Americans, and Native Australians, and Polynesians ... 99.9% of the world's population while he was speaking with Abraham and David and Solomon.
How does this demonstrate your belief that he loved everyone and wanted everyone to be in heaven with him?
2007-05-18 04:37:07 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It seems that some people are more equal than others.
2007-05-18 05:04:09 · answer #1 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a theory that God actually did speak to these people and give them a version of his laws, but they ignored God's laws and these books were lost (see link below for an example).
Other people assume that God appeared to Abraham only, because God couldn't find anyone else to listen.
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Ancient Emperor Huang Di (2697 - 2597 B.C.) ordered his historian Can Ji to establish a writing system for China. Can Ji invented a system of Chinese characters based on pictographs, representing each word by the physical appearance of the object. A few of the pictographs or ideograms invented by Can Ji are listed in the following table. Note how the characters evolved with time to the present characters that are familiar to most Chinese nowadays....
...There seems to be a strong tie between quite a few Chinese characters and the Bible teaching, without which it's simply difficult to explain the component parts that make up the characters. Some of these words are listed in the following together with illustration of their ties with the Bible.....
2007-05-18 04:47:55 · answer #2 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was the only man who trusted God and was willing to sacrifice his only son. God attributed this to Abraham as good and made a covenant with him. It is through this covenant that the Ten Commandments were established, after the Jews were lead out of Egypt. Because the Jews then transgressed, God shared the same covenent with the Gentiles. The Gentiles are therefore joint heirs with the Jews. Understand that the Jews are representative of the House of Judah, not the Isrealites.
As it is today, God offered salvation to an unbelieving world. God's love is demonstrated in that he still extended the gift of salvation, while we were yet in our sins. In fact, His love was so overwhelming that he sent Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice to cover or sins past, present, and future. This is how much our Father loves us.
2007-05-18 05:01:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice question. My answer is that Abraham was the only one listening to God when He appeared to him. B'coz of his obedience, God stuck with him and his descendants.
But He didn't abandon everyone else. Through Jesus, we Gentiles can also come into relationship with Him (even the Old Testament writers prophesied this).
Before Jesus, the internal moral code that God put in us allowed everyone else (not just Jews) to have a relationship with Him (see Romans 1 - 3)
2007-05-18 04:49:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God could have chosen anyone He wanted to reveal Himself to and teach His truth to.
However, for whatever reason, He chose the seed of Abraham.
I do not believe that God intended to "ignore" any other race of people. I think that God intended that the Israelites would be an example to the nations around them and their obedience would bring many more people into the fold to worship God. If you study the Bible, you will find that God usually starts small. One man, one family, one nation, with the eventual goal of the entire world, brought to salvation. This did not happen (yet) with the seed of Abraham.
2007-05-18 04:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God didn't just choose the decendants of Abraham and no one else. He chose them to show others God. There was always a way for the Gentile to enter into a covenant with him. The book of Ruth is a great example of this.
2007-05-18 04:50:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Israelites are God's chosen people. They are special amongst all of us. Jesus came from the line of David. God Himself brought them out of Egypt. They were given the Law to give to all the nations...and they have. In Revelation they will have a special place during the Tribulation, i.e. continue to spread the Gospel! They will all be martyred. In heaven they will be given white robes, and a special place in heaven. As I understand Revelation, they also will accompany Christ and rule over the earth during Christ's 1000 year reign.
Bottom line with the fanfare of God for the Israelites, they also have quite a responsibility to us all. But with God, they will do His will.
I therefore highly admire the Israelites. God says He will bless those who bless them and curse those who curse them. Paul, in the New Testament, admits that the Israelites reject Christ -- for now -- he says God has taken their branch away so that we (Christians) could be grafted in. One day, Paul says, they too will be restored -- they will acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus. Through their sacrifice, I have been grafted in...I have been saved. I am extremely thankful to God, and the Israelites!
2007-05-18 04:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knew that he could bypass the attempt, yet Abraham did no longer, till the unquestionably experience.. And it wasn't actual a attempt from God, it advance right into a fulfillment of His plan, even Abraham's obedience.. All mankind will see and comprehend the fulfillment of Gods plan, whilst the experience occurs. yet no guy will comprehend His plan devoid of first the experience. guy could desire to experience the understanding of Gods effect, for the end result's Gods plan.
2016-10-05 07:49:42 · answer #8 · answered by emilios 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God chose on man (Abraham) and his descendants (Israel) to be an example to the world.
God did talk to other people, the Bible says that God talked to 2 kings of the Philistines, to Pharaoh, Balek, etc...
2007-05-18 04:47:38 · answer #9 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is sovereign in what and who He chooses.
It is His creation, who are we to question the mind of The Almighty.
We are all skid marks on the underpants of creation, being unable to save ourselves. God loved us enough to send Jesus Christ to make a way for salvation.
There is no better example of love. It is great news my friend!
2007-05-18 04:47:54 · answer #10 · answered by KJV_1971 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because all the other people were in the worship of false gods .Thru Abraham God sent his word.This does demonstrate that God does love ...how else would the word of God been sent down thru the ages?????
2007-05-18 04:56:08 · answer #11 · answered by ✞ Ephesians 2:8 ✞ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋