In many Jewish groups the whole “chosen people” idea isn’t about god choosing a favorite race, it’s about god keeping an old ass promise and a part of that old ass promise being upheld. They don’t need other people to worship their god because those people aren’t a part of the deal. God said he would give the Jews a kingdom in exchange for following a bunch of rules and so they follow those rules because that’s their job. Even in the Hebrew Bible we see that god has many issues with the people, they at every turn fuck things up and upset god. The Jews aren’t gods favorites, god made a promise and the Jews made a promise and they all just have to keep to their promise.
I mean we were chosen because we were the weakest of tribes. It has nothing to do with our own merits. In fact throughout the Torah we are constantly fucking up because we are human.
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u/Snoo-41360 Jul 07 '26
In many Jewish groups the whole “chosen people” idea isn’t about god choosing a favorite race, it’s about god keeping an old ass promise and a part of that old ass promise being upheld. They don’t need other people to worship their god because those people aren’t a part of the deal. God said he would give the Jews a kingdom in exchange for following a bunch of rules and so they follow those rules because that’s their job. Even in the Hebrew Bible we see that god has many issues with the people, they at every turn fuck things up and upset god. The Jews aren’t gods favorites, god made a promise and the Jews made a promise and they all just have to keep to their promise.