How can the old testament jews be "god's special people"? what about everybody else on earth at that time?

Question

why weren't all humans on earth at that time his "special, chosen people?"

Whatever you want to call it, special, chosen, elected, whatever, let's keep semantics out: Israel was the sole place where god revealed himself to mankind for all human history (4000 years according to the bible) until Christianity was spread by the Roman Empire.

why were they just floundering around with false religions in which, for all they could figure, the sun was god? Or the Moon? or that each one of those kinds of things were gods?

In the bible, many times it talks about how god gave jews victory in battle, slaying their territorial neighbors. Because all those people were all sinfull and deserved it? Hard to believe. But then again, every single citizen in the two CITIES of sodom and gommorah was so evil that they deserved death, so maybe it IS possible. lol

God had never shone upon those people his existance or goodness or truth, leaving them as primitive people completely without god's guidance, left to worship whatever their town leaders told them to, and yet he has his special people have great victories over these other people, killing hundreds of men in battle. that does not make sense

Answer 1

They wrote the bible. Who do you think the authors of the Bible are going to say God's chosen people are but themselves?

Answer 2

like each atheists or nonbelievers you twist the Bible and make up nonsense for issues you're uneducated approximately. God has consistently made his existance, goodness and certainty time-honored to human beings. yet human beings do not prefer to do issues God's way, they might extremely % their own direction. and what's so hard to have self belief approximately sodom and gommorah? you do not think of that is available that there replaced into plenty evil there that it mandatory to be destroyed? bypass lower back and consider the account of sodom and gomorrah. what proportion situations did God tell them to alter their evil way earlier he destroyed them? how some years did he enable for them to alter? earlier God destroyed the city, Abraham bargained with God and stated, if he got here across one righteous individual God does not wreck the two cities. And Abraham did not discover one individual. The Jews are nonetheless God's chosen human beings. He on no account took that lower back from them. The Bible says, " he who blesses the Jews would be blessed, he who curses the Jews would be cursed". So in case you acquire hatred against the Jews I recommend you verify which area you're on because of the fact that is in all probability the incorrect area. God is continuously showing his goodness, mercy and certainty, yet human beings nonetheless dont settle for it. How long has the U. S. been around and has consistently substitute into extra evil on a daily foundation. Abortion, murders, baby molesters, pornography, rapists, drug lords, injustice. Judges are offered and offered in public. Unfair scientific look after the prosperous. extra suitable than 2 hundred years God has patiently waited for the U. S. to repent of its evil and it basically gets worse. God will wipe the U. S. off the map at some point, if issues dont substitute.

Answer 3

One of the most special thing about them was their talent for accurate record keeping.Paul says in Romans God chose them as His oracles(recorders).They kept the records so straight that even if they copied ,say,Isaiah,all 66 chapters (I know ,no chapters in the scrolls it's the length I'm getting at)and made one error,they'd cut it up and start over.Talk about OCD! Every time they wrote "God",they'd use a fresh pen and ink.See why they were His "Peculiar "people ,He also calls them.It just so happened that was the cradle of civilization and Abraham came out of that Pagan land and believed "YHVH" and it was counted to him as righteousness".So his descendants were blessed.
Romans 1 explains a lot about how early man strayed from the one true God.Read it !

Answer 4

The Jewish nation was the chosen of God not because of their righteousness, but because God chose to reveal His Son through them. The entire Bible points to Jesus.

Answer 5

This is self- justification by the jews. They were the first racists, believing that they were uniquely priveleged among all races because there sky god had told them so.

Answer 6

At the time, the world must have been a cruel awful place, everywhere.

Answer 7

My family genealogy states that my clan in Ireland was "God's chosen people". -- chagrin

Answer 8

because the "jews" were the "chosen" people...
they were promised the "promised land"
God was a jew...
just wat i learned in history.
sorry if i didnt answer ur question.
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