If GOD's chosen people are the Jews?

Question

This might seem like a stupid question but I was just wondering about thing and this came into my head.
If GOD's chosen people are the jews and if we are all in some way related to Adam and Eve does that make everyone of us in some way have jewish decent and make us GOD's chosen people???

Answer 1

Not necessarily. First of all, Adam and Eve, weren't "Jewish". They didn't belong to any group or tribe, and Jews didn't exist until the time of Jacob. Jews are descended from Judah, one of the 12 sons of Jacob, who lived long after Adam and Eve.

Answer 2

First you need to know what "chosen" means. The only explanation that is valid about what it means is the explanation held by the Jews themselves, since it's Jewish culture and the Jewish religion, and the Jewish Torah.

Anyone else does not have the right to define what being chosen means for the Jews. Just like no one from outside ANY culture has the right to define anything about it for the people inside the culture, this is true of the Jewish culture, Native American culture, Black culture, Arab culture, etc.

If you'd like to know what it means to the Jews, please visit these links:
http://www.aish.com/literacy/concepts/The_Chosen_People.asp

http://www.jewfaq.org/gentiles.htm

http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_simmons_chosen.htm

In answer to your question, since we are all from Adam and Eve, Judaism believes that in the time of the TRUE Messiah, there will not even be such a thing as Jews and non-Jews, we will all have been repaired and whole again, back to our origins, and everyone will be on a high spiritual level, together. Including Jews - we need to be repaired as well as non-Jews do.

Answer 3

The Jewish lineage broke off with Abraham, not Adam and Eve. Abraham's decendents (through Isaac and Jacob) are the originals of the Israelites (which later developed into the Jews).

The term Chosen People means that Jews have a greater obligation to serve G-d and to be an example for everyone. It DOES NOT mean that Jews are "better" than anyone else.

Answer 4

No

Replacement theology teaching is that protestant churches have replace the unbelieving Jews as the "God's Chosen" this is wrong and unscriptural.

The true chosen believers were Jewish they didn't call themselves "christians" this name was a derogatory statement. They were called "followers of the way" and "Nazarenes" which was a fulfillment of scripture.

Believers that aren't Jewish are called proselytes.

Answer 5

God's chosen people were the Jews because Abraham was a righteous man and he was God's friend, he was Jewish/Isrealite. However, it was God's will or purpose to reconcile all nations of mankind to Him - Genesis 22:15 - 18.
Acts 10:34 & 35.

Answer 6

hhmmmmm...interesting! I think that we are all God's people no matter what. But God chose the Jewish people to bring the Messiah into the world. See, even though Adam and Eve were the first people, their kids had kids and so forth to the point different languages came about (Babel) and even different skin colors, facial features, religions, ect. So, those people who remained Jewish were chosen to be the religious background of the Messiah, however we are all God's children.
Make sense?

Answer 7

No because the Jews are descended from Abraham. But the Bible teaches that in God's sight those who have faith like Abraham are God's chosen people.

Romans 3:29 Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, 30 since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.

Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 14 For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. 15 For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. 16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring--not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"--in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.

Answer 8

The Chosen People are chosen because of the Abrahamic Covenant. God said "In Isaac shall thy seed be blessed."
So, no, we are not all "Chosen." We would have to be of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
Follow the blood-line from Genesis 12 on, and you will see.

As Christians, we are adopted into the Promises of the Covenant by believing in Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

Very good point you might be on to something there. Too bad the Bible was written by a bunch of men trying to control the society they lived in. It worked great five thousand years ago, but now its not needed; we have a government that does the job of religion. So it doesn't matter if the Bible says we are born of Adam and Eve. There are no chosen people of God or gods for that matter.

Answer 10

Adam and Eve were not Jews. GOD's chosen people MUST be spiritual Jews.

Romans 2:29  But 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.

GOD bless

Answer 11

Traditional Jews rejected the Son of God as predicted in the Bible. Christians accepted the Son of God, and in so doing, we became the new Jerusalem. In effect, Christians are the true Jews, the spiritual Jews, the chosen people to return to God, and traditional Jews will have the same, once they accept Jesus Christ, in time.