Are the Jews are God's chosen people?
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Who are God's chosen people?\n\nGod's chosen people are the "elect", whether those of faith prior to Christ's coming or after.  This is the mystery of the gospel.\n\nRomans 2:28-29 and Galations 3:28-29 tells us who a true "Jew" is...all "in Christ".  It has nothing to do with race or gender.\n\nThe "Israel of God" (Galations 6:16) are all who identify themselves to Him through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ and who obey Him.\n\nGod is no respecter of persons.  To give special consideration to a physical nation or group of people is Zionistic and anti-scriptural.  It is to miss completely WHO Abraham's seed really is.\n\nAbraham's seed is Christ.  Abraham was not a Jew.  Jacob had not even been born to Isaac yet.  And it is for Jacob that Israel was named, and Judah was a son of Jacob (name later changed to Israel).  It is from Judah that the name "Jew" comes.  Therefore, Abraham was not a Jew. \n\nSo, all "in Christ" are Abraham's true lineage who will inherit the promises God promised to Him.  God's people are those of FAITH, not race.
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Becasue they are the chosen race
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I don't believe your "faithfulness" notion here.  Where was your god during holocaust days?\n\nYou can't tell me there weren't any god-fearing jew / people in those camps.  \n\nDon't bother with the "well well" + explanations about the permissive will or any other sort of will of god, and all the other explanations that amount to "too bad for them glad it wasn't us" rationale.\n\nAll over the world, people suffer terribly through no fault of their own.  Your god doesn't seem so faithful.  \n\nPerhaps you're simply lucky!
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They have all missed the boat, here.\n\nThe Jews saw Jesus as a heretic who CLAIMED to be the Son of the living God.  He was a madman who equaled himself to God, and for that he was made to suffer and die.\n\nOf course, the difference here is that Jesus was right.\n\nTo Christianity, Jesus is the God-man, who came into the world to free us from sin.\nTo Judaism, Jesus was a misguided heretic who paid dearly for his false teachings.
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This is what Moses wrote after hearing God. God wrote this for the Jews, who were the chosen people. (Later a Jew, Jesus, saved the world) The Jews were chosen to carry on in order to foster the Messiah (Jesus). The Jews had been slaves, and had many enimies. This is His instructions for the Jews, to ensure their survival, while giving them law and order. The Jews must survive, in order to bring about the messiah, and complete the story of man, with a happy ending, after Adams disobedience in the Garden of Eden (heaven). But I am not God, and do not know His reasons, so you must pray and ask Him yourself.
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Jews very definitely welcomes converts, and up until the Council of Nicaea, in the year 325, we Jews were very definitely missionaries. At the Council of Nicaea, Constantine gave the death penalty to any Jew caught missionizing, and to anyone listening to that Jew who was missionizing!\n\nOf course, this did not stop people from converting to Judaism, and becoming Jews.\n\nThere is even a verse in the Christian's New Testament that describes the zealousness with which Jews used to missionize. See Matthew 23:15! \n\nThere are quite a number of places in the Hebrew Scriptures where Gd tells the Jews to convert all the nations of the earth to Judaism. Here is one quick example, from Psalm 96:\n\n     Psa 96:1  O sing unto the Etrnl a new song: \n     sing unto the Etrnl, ALL THE EARTH. 2  Sing \n     unto the Etrnl, bless his name; shew forth his \n     salvation from day to day. 3  DECLARE HIS \n     GLORY AMONG THE HEATHEN, HIS WONDERS AMONG ALL \n     THE PEOPLE. 4  For the Etrnl is great, and \n     greatly to be praised: HE IS TO BE AWED ABOVE \n     ALL GODS. 5  FOR ALL THE GODS OF THE NATIONS \n     ARE IDOLS, BUT THE ETRNL MADE THE   \n     HEAVENS......9 O worship the Etrnl in the \n     beauty of holiness: fear before him, ALL THE \n     EARTH. 10  SAY AMONG THE HEATHEN THAT THE \n     ETRNL REIGNETH: the world also shall be \n     established that it shall not be moved: he \n     shall judge the people righteously. \n\nNow, yes, there is a "Unique Path" as you put it, for non-Jews, it is through the covenant Gd first established with Noah, but why settle for the lesser of two Great Things?\n\nConvert to Judaism, and WELCOME!\n\nHere is a web site to help you convert to Judaism: http://Convert.org \n\nAnd below under Sources are web sites for the Noachides as they are called.
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Jews were expecting a King, a man of great wealth to come.  When Jesus came, born as a poor human carpenter son, they didn't except him as the messiah.  Jews today are still waiting for the Messiah to come.  Thats whats taught to them. It was hard for them in the old testament to believe in something they couldn't see or touch.  That is why God sent his son down.  Jesus is God in human form.  There is only on God, just in three seperate forms.  God, Jesus and the Holy spirit.
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Jews believe in God, the same God that christians worship, the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, etc.  They believe in sin and in forgiveness.  The day of atonement is the day to seek forgiveness for sins.
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Absolutely. If you read your OT you will find their God routinely telling the Jews to kill all the people in some neighboring country. One gets the impression God loved the Jews and hated everyone else on earth.\n\nThe OT God also routinely killed Jews for minor transgressions against tyrannical demands.\n\nStoning people to death for minor transgression of their laws was a popular pastime among the ancient Jews. They believed God wanted this.\n\n\nevilbible.com has tons of examples to support everything I am saying.
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Jesus Peace be Upon Him was a Palestinian. \n\nHe was born and raised in Palestine.\n\nHe was a submitter to the Lord and he was sent down to fix the changes that were commited by the Jews. He was accepted by many people who followed him but was also rejected by the Jews and the Infidel Romans who tried to put him on the cross.\n\nJesus was ofcourse a Palestinian, and if he was on earth today, he would order the world to unite against the deception of the Zionists who claim that God gave them the land of Palestine and who claim that they are God's chosen people, which they are not because they lost favor with God when they rejected Jesus.\n\nJesus Christ was a Palestinian, don't believe anyone who would tell you otherwise. Only pro-Zionistanists would try to hide that fact.\n\nSInce we're discussing Palestine, I would like to say that the arrogance of the zionists and their supporters is the reason this conflict is there in the first place. Palestine has always been a part of the ottoman empire and before that all Islamic Empires. \n\nI just don't see how a German or Polish or Russian or American jew can claim that this land is his, it's sickening, the ammount of arrogance such a person should have before giving himself the permission to transgress on the property of Palestinians.\n\nAnyhow, your Lord will make the rightous victorious, so no one is worried, but people are only upset at the disintigration of humanity's ethical values, that you cannot take land away from people because you claim that God Promised it to you or because you claim that you are God's CHOSEN people. \n\nThere are no Chosen people, and anyone in this age who claims that he or she is chosen is in my eyes, a CURSED person. the Lord would never chose people who go around killing Palestinian children. 1000 such children killed over the past 5 years. God's "chosen" people would simply have to be more "chosen" i.e. just, loving, fair... not arrogant fools.
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no no no wrong... jesus came to this earth in the human form.. naturally since there were so many communities he had to be under one.. the truth is, by chance the good people to who he was born turned out to be jews.. so he was born in a jew family on earth.. that does not men he was a jew before that.. so obviously neither is God.
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it seems Jewish people were
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You obviously do ,but i got news for you not every one is like you and to say the maximum people is incorrect.\n\nbillions of people on this planet dont even know what Jews are.\n\nthe reason for their continuous persequesions are ,because theologically speaking they betrayed jesus and denied him as their king or something\n\nthey also have been bankers , like for ever,and many people.\nowed money to Jewish banks.Often it was easier to kill them ,than to pay them back.\n\nYes, it is true Jew s are disliked by many people but globally speaking this is still a very small percent, to say the maximum ,borders on a racist remark.\n\nI am sure some jewish people will take this issue up with you in much more detail.
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Right.\n\n"Chosen" means that Jews have more responsibility in the world than non-Jews, that is, to perform all the commandants.\n\nWhile gentiles are only required to uphold the 7 commandments of the covenant God made with Noah (the Noahide Laws).
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"Chosen people" choose themselves!\n\nWe are all equal in God's eyes. If someone tells you that they are "chosen by God," stay away!
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the talmud says that G-d chose the jews last.
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I don't know. However, seeing that most Christians read and study the bible, including the Old Testament, even if they don't still follow it, it's still important to them, and so is it's main subject, the Jews. I believe that even if they don't consider the Israelis god's chosen people anymore, they still consider them important in some way.