is it still true today, that there is still only Jews and Gentiles?
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no\nthere are three distinctions.  jews, gentiles, and the church (christians)\njews- physical desendents of abraham\nchurch- believers on Jesus as God\ngentiles (or nations)- everyone else
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why would you assume that Jews rule the world?\nno human rules the world, G-D does.\nhowever, people currently being a majority in the world are mostly christians.\nnote, though, that christians are seperated into many groups.\ntherefore, there is no specific group ruling the world.
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There is but just rumors of magic use in Solomons time, nothing concrete. But since alot of the population were jews, it wouldnt be a far stretch to accuse them of anything back then, afterall we are all human.
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""Why is it Jewish People believe they are the chosen people?""\n\nBecause we are, because Gd said so, because Gd does not change his mind, because Gd said the covenant between Him and we Jews is eternal, just like He is eternal, because History has proved this to be true, because the Jews themselves have proven this to be true!!!\n\nAs Mark Twain Wrote in Harper's Magazine, March issue, 1898\n"Concerning The Jews"::::\n\n"""To conclude. - If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. \n\nHe has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him. He could be vain of himself, and be excused for it. The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in twilight now, or have vanished. \n\nThe Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies, no dulling of his alert and aggressive mind. All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?"""  \n\nThat secret is that we are, indeed, Gd's Chosen People!!
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I think that only the EUROPEAN Jews are the smartest group in the last 2 or so centuries.\nI think just like rest of Europe Jews went through a form of renaissance and a form of “Age of Enlightenment”\nI think than far too little research has been devoted to the Jewish age “Age of Enlightenment”. While for Europeans the “Age of Enlightenment” was a liberation from religious oppression and limitation, for Jews it was also a liberation from ghettos, so it was like dissolving nationality. Religions and nations are the two big prisons of humanity. IF we can dissolve these two monsters, not externally, but within ourselves, we will all be geniuses.\nTragically, Jews have been forced to be a nation again, case Israel…I guess the world is not yet ready to be without nations, and religions. Only John Lennon is <smile>
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I asked some people about that yesterday. Apparently it was only supposed to apply to the Israelites... At least that's what they all said but I haven't fact checked it yet.\nThe abominations are the same.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqnbbDeGVoLENsNqVkflpGvsy6IX?qid=1006051123125\n\nHere's a link to the questions I asked in regards to leviticus...
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I believe so.  Christians follow Jesus as their savior.  Their savior just happens to be Jewish.  He took part in these observances.
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It's a religion.  The fact that many Jews share the same apperance is that is not a prosteltyzing religion and it has not spread much outside of its original followers.
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I hope no-one takes offence to your question. It is a valid one and you clearly state this as a generalisation and obviously understand that there is a huge variation in jewish appearance, but yes, there is some characturistics that are considered 'jewish'.\n\nI think it is as someone has already said, there is a geographical orrigination and historically jews have not married out of religion, although this is of course a generalisation in its self. So the gene pool has largely remained intact. Obviousy the genes for those characturistics have been carried through the generations and not been widely circulated among other religious backgrounds. Although again I stress those characturistics are not exclusively jewish and intermarriage has scattered them about into other cultures too.\n\nPerhaps even, many of those characturistic genes are recessive, and therefore generally appear in the more pure jewish families than the ones of more mixed race. \n\nBut I do dissagree with about the 'christian' look. I'm sure out of a line up of jews, christians, muslims, hindus, buddists and many other religions, that someone could pick out a christian. Generally speaking of course. I'm sure we could also find many traditianaly jewish or traditionally muslim looking people and actually find that thay are infact christian or buddist.
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At first this question offended me.  I suspected a touch of anti-semitic bias.\n\nThen I went on the web to look at some facts regarding the number of non-Jews who were also victims of the holocaust.  The facts lend legitimacy to the question.  There may have actually been MORE non-Jews killed in the death camps.  \n\n(For a quick read on this, go to the Wikipedia link below)\n\nSo, back to the original question..."Why is it that we only hear about the Jews killed in the concentration camps?"  \n\nMy guess is that they exist both as a homogenous group (Jewish) and as a nation (Israel) that is a close ally of the U.S.  All through the cold war years when we were writing our version of the history of the holocaust, many of the non-Jewish populations that were affected had fallen behind the iron curtain (Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc.).  For nearly 40 years the interests of these people and the stories of how they too suffered at the hands of the Gestapo were not foremost in our national awareness and empathy (let alone our textbooks). \n\nOther under-represented victims included the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, many of whom were also persecuted and killed.  All of these were also less politically viable after the war or were also victims of our own ignorance and bias here in America.\n\n\nTo sum up, I don't think that there is some "devious plan" to manage the perception of the holocaust as an exclusively Jewish persecution.  I think that the rest of the various (and many) groups that were targeted simply didn’t engender anything like the unified outrage of the Jewish community and the state of Israel. \n\nGood question…made me think.
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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.
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Greetings in Salaam, Peace, & Shalom from Jesus Land,\n\nAfter more than two thousand years, Christian families are still living, witnessing, & worshiping in the land where Jesus Christ was born, lived, died, & was resurrected. We are NOT immigrants. We are NOT converts from Judaism or Islam. We are the descendents of the original indigenous Christians who first believed in our Lord Jesus Christ. We live in Nazareth, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jerusalem, & other places in the Biblical Palestine, Israel, & Jordan. We are Arab Palestinian Christians (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, & others). Together, we comprise the MOTHER CHURCH, the Church of Jerusalem. Zion remains the Mother of All the Churches, & Urushalim the Holy City.\n\nHave you ever wondered what happened to the descendants of the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and the descendants of other Jews, Arabs, Canaanites, Greeks, Philistines, Romans, and Samaritans・who accepted the Messiah when He was with them in the flesh? Today, their direct descendants number around a million. These are the Palestinian Christians who still maintain the faith and tradition.\n\nGod bless Palestine
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The Jews are and always will be God's chosen people. Unfortunately because of this, the powers of spiritual darkness in the world have targeted Judaism for that very reason. As a Christian, I for one have to say thank you, you have given us the Patriarchs as an example. God Bless you.
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2,000 years of history proves that the Jews were right!\n\nThe Jews ARE special.\n\nThey read the Bible in the original language with NO translation or interpretations.  No VERSIONS.\n\nThey have it straight.\n\n\nThere are 45,000 Protestant Churches in the U.S. because NONE of them agree on what Christianity is.\n\nChristianity murdered Jews, Jews never murdered Christians (except by individuals).\n\nChristians banned Judaism, Jews never banned Christianity.\n\nWhich religion behaves like 'Jesus'?  Not Christianity.\n\nVirgin Birth, Immaculate Conception?  99% of Christians don't know the difference.
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It does not matter what any one's position is.\n The fact is that there are Jews there.
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Not exactly a true statement; The Catholic church as it exists today has only existed since the eighth century or so.  It started to form with the emperor Constantine.  So therefore, we should probably all be Jews in your mind as they were here first.  The original Christians were Jews!  Read the Bible and find out.
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Hang on a minute. I thought Muslims looked to Allah and Mohammed as their Saviour/Prophet and Islam as their religion? Regardless, there is nothing on record that says Jews are the 'chosen people'. The only people who say this are Jews themselves, and these interpretations are based on THEIR interpretation of a 'Bible' written by fellow Jews...who played down their role in the execution of another Saviour of mankind. \n\nIf we all believe that the Lord/Allah/Jesus/Jehovah is our saviour (because God has many faces), we are ALL chosen people - not just one race or one nation of people and certainly not because one race of people has written a 'Book' biased in their favour...\n\nWhy ask such a stupid and ill-informed question on this board if not to provoke ill feeling?