The Jewish people have never accepted Jesus as their saviour, how can they be favoured by God?

Answer 1

#1 God is ever forgiving, and the Jews are God's chosen people. If you read the bible is says nothing about Christians. Also, it says in the Bible that Jews will not accept the Christ, thats part of the prophecy that is fulfilled.

Answer 2

God chose them. He told Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and his seed would possess the gate of his enemies; and in Abraham's seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed, because Abraham obeyed God's voice.
God let the king of Babylon destroy Jerusalem and take the young Jews captive, but God has always said that He would save a remnant of the Jews for Himself.

Psalm 122:6 "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee."

Christians may be fooled with idols, but a Jew knows that he should not worship an idol of any kind. The Lord has preserved Israel.

Psalm 135:4
For the Lord has chosen Jacob unto Himself;
and Israel for His peculiar treasure.

The Bible tells us that God does not break covenant.

Answer 3

Dear John,

National Israel (descendents of Abraham) are not "God's people" as is widely taught by many christian churches. The Bible tells in Romans 2:28, 29 "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God."

In other words, the "Israel" of God are all those who have been born-again or saved. A true "Jew" is one who has been redeemd by the Lord Jesus Christ from sin and the pwer of satan. "God's people" are those whom He has chosen to salvation before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-5), paid their sin debt, and given a hew resurrected soul (Ephesians 2:6; 2 Cor. 5:17).

The Lord is no respector of persons. The Bible tells us that He is saving a great multitude out of every nation, kindred, and tongue.

Answer 4

The concept of "chosenness" 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.
Addiditonally, we Jews do not believe Jesus was the Messiah. Christians identify Messiah with Jesus and define him as God incarnated as a man, and believe he died for the sins of humanity as a blood sacrifice. This means that one has to accept the idea that one person's death can atone for another person's sins. However, this is opposed to what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 24:26, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sin," which is also expressed in Exodus 32:30-35, and Ezekiel 18. The Christian idea of the messiah also assumes that God wants, and will accept, a human sacrifice. After all, it was either Jesus-the-god who died on the cross, or Jesus-the-human. Jews believe that God cannot die, and so all that Christians are left with in the death of Jesus on the cross, is a human sacrifice. However, in Deuteronomy 12:30-31, God calls human sacrifice an abomination, and something He hates: "for every abomination to the Eternal, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." All human beings are sons or daughters, and any sacrifice to God of any human being would be something that God would hate. The Christian idea of the messiah consists of ideas that are unbiblical.

Answer 5

Jesus WAS Jewish... if he ever really existed. All of the documentation about him is second hand and was written after his lifetime. Jesus wasn't even worshipped AS God until 3 centuries after his crucifixion, again, if he ever really existed. He might have, but there is no real "solid" evidence so far.

Answer 6

Since we don't believe that Jesus was the messiah, your question in fact isn't even one that we can answer, or need to. No disrespect meant, but it's like asking you why it is that your neighbor didn't mow their lawn last week--it's just not a part of your reality.

Answer 7

Jesus didn't meet the mosiach requirements that God gave Jews. They would be DISOBEYING God if they accepted Jesus as their savior. The Christian Bible is not applicable to non-Christians.

Answer 8

The Jewish people were chosen by God that's why they are, and always will be God's very own.

Answer 9

They aren't.That belief is only a little over a century old.Christian Zionists believe that lie.Hebrews and Galatians make it crystal clear it is Christians that are the "chosen people".

Answer 10

because God made a promise to Israel and God keeps his promises.
God promised Israel that his line would never be wiped from the earth. Many have tried, Egypt, the Catholic Church, Nazi Germany, Palestine and they've all failed. Don't screw with God's chosen people.