Jews= the chosen people? what about everyone else?

Question

Jews say they are the chosen people, and many other people believe that. how does that make everyone else fit in? should everyone convert to the chosen people? kill 'em? are christians and muslims also (because they are children of abraham) the chosen peoples?

thanks for everyone who answered my question. i know what I think, and i know a bunch about the facts, i was just wondering what the YA readers thought. thanks!

Answer 1

Considering how much nasty stuff god does to people in the bible I wonder what he has chosen them for...

"NO no, to serve man! It's a cookbook!"

Answer 2

The Bible says that The Jews are chosen......even Christians don't fight it .......I guess I don't see what the problem is...I don't Need to Convert (backwards) The New Testament is the New Covenant between God and All his people.....If more people spent there time just Respecting all our religious differences without claiming all the answers perhaps we would be better off.......peace

Answer 3

In Genesis 22:15-18 God promised Abraham that because he listened to God and obeyed His commandments, his seed {the nation of Isreal } would be the means by which ALL the nations of the earth would be blessed. God's purpose is that all mankind have the prospect of eternal life on a paradise earth - Titus 1:2; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:3 & 4.
Jesus being born in Abraham's bloodline made it possible for all who have faith in him and his sacrifice, to be reconciled to God - John 3:16 ;John 17:3; Acts 10:34.

Answer 4

everybody is chosen, depends on whether or not you do your job or not.
ignorance plagues the minds of those who claim that they are the only chosen ones and nobody else.
Apparently you cant convert to a chosen person either. Why do you have to be born as a chosen person? what did everybody else do wrong to not be chosen by God?

Answer 5

The whole idea that the Jews are the -chosen people- is a misunderstanding. God went to Abraham and basically offered him a job. If Abraham went to work for God, God promised he'd make Abraham's family big, so long as they worked for him. This was a 'convenant', a contract, a reciprocal agreement.

Of course Christians and Muslims, as followers of Abraham, as his spiritual descendants, are also children of this contract. And there is no reason it couldn't be read as God's promise to favor -anyone- who worked for him.

(Some) Jewish people seems to think that God favors them just because of their Jewish heritage and identity. In fact I was taught this as a Jewish kid being raised Jewish. Later I did some reading and found the real truth. But Many Jews through history have seen it just the way I do, and in fact many have thought it wasn't a great privilege to be 'chosen' by God.

The 'dark side' of Religion is that people often feel their religion makes them special, that they deserve certain special privileges over those who don't believe as they do. Some Jews are certainly guilty of this but in the US the biggest transgressors here are fundamentalist Christians. Christian leaders and certain politicians rabble-rouse Christians to feel that they are not getting the respect their faith entitles them to, that they are being denied their rights, that the nation is run by 'atheists', etc.

In this way, nearly every religion considers itself 'God's chosen people'.

Answer 6

They rejected the Messiah.

from Reasoning from the Scriptures page 211
Why did the Jews in general not accept Jesus as the Messiah?

The Encyclopedia Judaica says: "The Jews of the Roman period believed [the Messiah] would be raised up by God to break the yoke of the heathen and to reign over a restored kingdom of Israel." (Jerusalem, 1971, Vol. 11, col. 1407) They wanted liberation from the yoke of Rome. Jeswish history testifies that on the basis of the Messianic prophecy recorded at Daniel 9:24-27 there were Jews who expected the Messiah during the first century C.E. (Luke 3:15) But that prophecy also connected his coming with 'making an end of sin,' and Isaiah chapter 53 indicated that Messiah himself would die in order to make that possible. However, the Jews in general felt no need for anyone to die for their sins. They believed that they had a righteous standing with God on the basis of their descent from Abraham. Says A Rabbinic Anthology, "So great is the [merit] of Abraham that he can atone for all the vanities committed and lies uttered by Israel in this world." (London, 1938, C. Montefiore and H. Loewe, p. 676) By their rejection of jesus as Messiah, the Jews fulfilled the prophecy that had foretold regarding him: "He was despised, and we esteemed him not." ---Isaiah 53:3, JP.

Before his death, Moses foretold that the nation would turn aside from true worship and that, as a result, calamity would befall them. (Read Deuteronomy 31:27-29.) The book of Judges testifies that this occurred repeatedly. In the days of the prophet Jeremiah, national unfaithfulness led to the nation's being taken into exile in Babylon. Why did God also allow the Romans to destroy Jerusalem and its temple in 70 C.E.? Of what unfaithfullness had the nation been guilty so that God did not protect them as he had done when they put their trust in him? It was shortly before this that the had rejected Jesus as the Messiah.


Was Jesus merely a prophet whose authority was similar to that of Moses, Buddha, Muhammad, and other religious leaders? page 210

Jesus himself taught that he was the unique Son of God (John 10:36; Matt. 16:15-17), the foretold Messiah (Mark 14:61, 62), that he had a prehuman existence in heaven (John 6:38; 8:23, 58), that he would be put to death and then would be raised to life on the third day and would thereafter return to the heavens. (Matt. 16:21; John 14:2, 3) Were these claims true, and was he thus really different from all other true prophets of God and in sharp contrast to all self-styled religious leaders? The truth of the matter would be evident on the third day from his death. Did God then resurrect him from the dead, thus confirming that Jesus Christ had spoken the truth and was indeed God's unique Son? (Rom. 1:3, 4) Over 500 witnesses actually saw Jesus alive following his resurrection, and his faithful apostles were eyewitnesses as he began his ascent back to heaven and then disappeared from their view in a cloud. (1 Cor. 15:3-8; Acts 1:2, 3, 9) So thoroughly were they convinced that he had been raised from the dead that many of them risked their lives to tell others about it.---Acts 4:18-33.

Read what I have and you will at least know why.

Answer 7

You can not convert to the chosen people-you have to be born one.
However, God chose them to show the world how He can bless or curse a people. You can be African, Chinese, Filipino, or British, and you can have a favored standing with God. The Jews are not the only ones God will save/redeem, but they are just the ones he chose to use as an example to us all. If you have noticed, the Jews are far from perfect. Take comfort from the fact that I God can love a Jew-He can love you.

Answer 8

Well not only the Jews say this God says this to .......the questions you have asked are so broad it would take a very long time to answer them.

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Answer 9

Jews were the chosen people to have Christ nailed to the cross. Think about it, the Jews turn in Christ, sold him, spit on Him, and He died for us , so we would be without sin....Now would you die --for me --so I could go to Heaven. Jesus was and spoken the Jewish Language and several other languiages, Catholic are NOT the true religion either or the chosen ones....all religions are the same..only we all pray or do mass/sermons differently...go to a different church a week and see what I am talking about.

Answer 10

Chosen for what, is the question? The Jews were chosen for a specific purpose. What is your purpose?

Answer 11

ya got to study the bible more and listen to what the word says.... yes the Jews are the natural people of God.
but they rejected Jesus as being the Christ because he did not come as a king to rule over the world ,but a poor baby in a manger.
so God turned from the Jews to the gentiles or Greeks, not saying a Jew cannot be saved,
if they believe they to can be saved.
but as of right now whosoever believes in Jesus , being the Christ is the chosen people , Jew if you might say , in faith

study,,,,,,,,,,,,king James bible ,,only