Hmmm.... I wonder why no one has asked this question before?
We were “chosen” to be good examples. Guess what? We usually fail. We are fallible and have every human foible. But we have been told by Our Creator to be that shining light, so we push on and keep trying.
Jews are better than nobody. Like being picked by the coach or teacher to demonstrate the technique to the rest of the team, we are supposed to suck it up and demonstrate perfection. Maybe G-d just wants us to work harder. :)
But we sure are misunderstood. Over millennia, everyone tries to kill us. We are still here.
What, without Jews there's be no Islam???
O.K., now Jews are starting to piss me off..
Everybody knows the Trial Lawyers are the chosen people.
This explains a LOT.
Are Jews a race or ethnicity? Is a Chinese Jew just as Jewish as an Ethiopian Jew?
Is Judaism a religion? Is an atheistic Jew just as Jewish as a rabbi?
Is a heretical Jew that maliciously breaks the Ten Commandments just as Chosen as the most pious Jew?
Few like or love the Bible’s commentaries on many morals ,values, cultural, pre-destined views and historical judgments from a real Higher Power: the Creator-Savior-King of the Universe. But, as kids would say, or was it the mom in Babe,’that’s just the way things are.’ Christians are just grafted in and am I glad that we are. In the ME today, I support Israel and do not support the rest of the Islamofascist thugs. Yep, another biased belief and that’s just the way things are.
Yes.
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ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
However, the naysayers should be along any minute to shred every bit of you they can shred.
It’s a compulsive obsession with them.
Dennis Prager is a good conservative, and he’s good when that is what he is arguing for, however, he leaves me when he leaves off arguing for conservative issues, and starts pushing Judaism, and that to a largely Christian conservative audience. This lead article of his is prime example.
I’ve heard his program quite a few times, it seems lately more and more Judaism has become the purpose of his radio show. I’ve even heard him on quite a few occasions pushing the Jewish Kabbalah, which he apparently believes in quite devoutly. Which is a pagan-Gnostic mixture of mysticism, sorcery, witchcraft, and magic. I find that incredible. Does he not know that such things might be fine and dandy with him and his fellow Kabbalists, but is abominable to Bible believing Christianity?
Meanwhile, never have I heard him even mention Jesus Christ. Does he believe, like most Jews, Jesus Christ is a hoax? He pushes antichristian Judaism, never revealing to his mostly Christian conservative audience what he believes about Christ.
The dispensationalists and the John Hagee types eat it all up, of course, Prager like a pied piper leading them around by the nose. Never catching what Prager is doing. I mentioned John Hagee, he has gone so far with his dual covenant doctrine that he has written in one of his books that Jesus is not the Messiah. Hagee has Jews so special that they don’t need Jesus to be saved, they have their own covenant.
As to the dispensationalists, since what they believe is nothing but a form of Judaized Eschatology anyway, they are lock-step with anything Prager does. Kabbalist witchcraft and all.
Dispensationalist make the mistake of identifying modern Judaism with Old Testament Judaism. What they fail to realize is Old Testament Judaism and modern day Talmudic/Kabbalist Judaism are two very different things. Modern day Judaism is a syncretism of Torah and Pagan philosophy (Kabbalah). Similar to the syncretism of their forefathers, which caused them to be carried away to Babylon. The Talmud and Kabbalah are not the Bible, they are extrabiblical, similar to what the book of Mormon is to Mormonism.
Dispensationalists, of course, could care less, God’s chosen people have an unconditional relationship with God. Jeremiah wouldn’t agree with them.
There is something profound in the concept of One God, beyond the Sun, Moon and stars. Even time. How could Abraham and the Torah writers have seen this? Indeed how could they even have looked into existence through their primitiveness and seen its essence so deeply?
Choseness? Yes, I would say so.
were but not are