Has God punished the Jews

Answer 1

God doesn't hate anyone, don't let people try and teach you that God hates anyone. If God is anywhere, and the majority of people on the planet believe he is, then he (as it states), loves his children.

Answer 2

Answer:

A number of Bible passages indicates that God has allotted man a period of time (a 6000 year "work-week" followed by a thousand year Sabbath "day of rest" - II Peter 3:8) to rule himself and chose for himself whether or not he will obey the laws which God has laid down for the administration of proper behavior and governance.

For the most part... God has a "hands-off" policy regarding the affairs of men. And men benefit or suffer in accordance with the right and wrong choices they make.

The Creator has, however, called out a race of people who have preserved and brought His Word down through the centuries... the descendants of Abraham through Isaac... whom the world calls the "Jews."

"...This is that Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will send you a prophet like me from your own people.' He was in the assembly in the desert, with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received Living Words to pass on to us." (Acts 7:37-38)

Like the rest of the world... the "Jews" remained as human as everyone else and sinned (transgressed God's law - I John 3:4)... just like everyone else. And like the rest of the world, they, for the most part, remain ignorant of the Truth that man's Creator is presently in the business of "reconciliation"... of bringing man back... of justifying man to a condition of "innocence" before God, regarding his sins.

God is not in the "punishment business."

Satan's various false religions and all of the diverse gods that men have chosen to rule over him and the nations of the world, have misled men into thinking that "God is out to get us!" When the Truth is:

"...This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and REPENTANCE and FORGIVENESS OF SINS will be preached in His name to all nations..." (Luke 24:46-47 NIV).

The laws of God are "spiritual" (Rom.7:14). They are as "automatic" as any of the laws of nature which God has set into motion in the beginning. Laws like gravity, inertia, etc.

Infractions and transgressions against any of these laws can sometimes result in severe and deadly consequences. The same is true regarding our (or the Jews') transgressions against God's Ten Commandments (sinning).

God doesn't reach down with His "invisible hand" and strike people down for sinning. The invisible laws which He set in motion exact automatic results that depend upon whether or not those laws were obeyed or disobeyed.

It's a learning process for all nations... including the Jews... during this "allotted time" we have been given.

"Your wickedness will punish you; your backsliding will rebuke you. Consider then and realize how evil and bitter it is for you when you forsake the LORD your God and have no awe of Me, declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty." (Jer.2:19 NIV)

God isn't punishing the Jews. We all punish ourselves through our own disobedience to our Creator's laws.

"...Do you think... (the Jews) are... worse sinners than all the other... (nations in the world)... because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." (Luke 13:2-3 NIV)

Answer 3

God explicitly states his love for the Jews (Malachi 1:2).

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Link: If so, why was the Temple destroyed?

Link: Why did the Israelite prophets scold their own people?

Answer 4

No! He loves everyone and everything. It says in The Bible that he gave his only begotten son for he so loved the world.

Answer 5

The Jewish answer is that God loves anyone who serves him.

Answer 6

No; very few Jews hate God. God gave us the Torah and a covenant (Exodus ch.19) and the Holy Land (Genesis ch.28), and most Jews respect that. We are commanded to love Him (Deuteronomy ch.6).

Answer 7

No... They LOVE THEM!!!!