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Andrew Dasilva Composition II 9:30 – Tue/Thur Who are God’s Chosen people? Nearly all major religions, other than Hinduism, believe there is a supreme being that has chosen a set group of people to ascend into an afterlife with him/her. The Mormons, Christians, Muslims, Jews, or even the Rastafarians could be God’s chosen people, but more facts tend to point toward the Jews being the actual secular group chosen to be the right religion. In Judaism, chosenness is the belief that the Jews are a people chosen to be in a covenant with God. The idea is not connected with tribal groupings as they are traditionally understood, as non-ethnic Jews can become Jews. The Jewish idea of being chosen is first found in the Torah (five books of Moses) and is elaborated on in later books of the Hebrew Bible. This status carries both responsibilities and blessings as described in the Biblical covenants with God (Over 3800 years ago). Much is written about this topic in rabbinic literature (Tanach, XXIV). Even other religions, like the Mormons teach that the Jews are the chosen people of God. For example, Mormons are "The kin blood of the Jews" (Doctrine, 374). Along with this belief, believers in the religion of Rastafari claim to be a part of the chosen group of god by blood lineage. Rastas believe that Israel's King Solomon, together with Ethiopian Queen of Sheba, conceived a child which began the Solomonic line of kings in Ethiopia, rendering the African Andrew Dasilva Composition II 9:30 – Tue/Thur people as the true children of Israel, and thereby chosen (Dread, 122). Obviously Many religions, in their own beliefs and books of scripture, believe that they are the chosen group of God, clearly only by being linked in some way to the Jews. As just stated, many religions, in their own religious texts, have references or beliefs of the Jewish faith being the correct belief of God. Even in the King James Version of the Bible, there are scriptures that lead one to believe that Judaism and the Jews are God’s people. For a quick example, Israel's character as the chosen people is set by obedience to God's commandments. "Now therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. For all the earth is mine: and you shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:5, 6). Another passage that strikes me that the King James Bible insists that Judaism is the religion of choice is in Deuteronomy, 7:7; "The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people; but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your ancestors." Many of the Covenants in the Bible, are repeated many times throughout the book of Jeremiah, and states that the Jewish people of Israel are God’s Chosen people. Andrew Dasilva Composition II 9:30 – Tue/Thur All of these facts clearly show that even if some theological beliefs are misconstrued, many… if not all, point back to Judaism as being the chosen religion. This belief somehow is not shared by all, possibly due to a deep sense of ethnocentrism or resentment against God’s children. Jealousy is a powerful thing, powered by evil itself, and can persuade many into damnation. Luckily, the Jews know what is going on and they have the ways to prove it. After writing this paper, even I’m tempted to switch to Judiasm! With Israel being the land of God’s Chosen people, wouldn’t everyone want to inhabit that land? Over thirty times has Israel been invaded and taken over by different empires. The wars have lasted since around the beginning of civilization, and still continue to this day. The theory of having such a promised land is the controversy that nearly the entire world is involved in.