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Answer 1
1) Since the early Israelites were called Hebrews (Genesis ch.14), they are the chosen people, as God said in Exodus ch.19 and elsewhere.
2) Actually, you may (at the same time) say that not all of the Hebrews were chosen by God. This is because "Hebrews" actually can refer, along with the Israelites, also to certain non-Israelites, with whom God made no covenant. "Hebrews" in the wider sense includes all the descendants of Eber (Ever), who is the source of the word Hebrew. He was an ancestor of Abraham (Genesis ch.10-11), so that Abraham's Aramean cousins (Gen. ch.22), and also peoples such as Moab, Ammon (Gen. ch.19), Edom (ch.36), Ishmael/the Arabs (Gen. ch.16) and many others (Gen. ch.25) are of Hebrew descent. However, the term "Hebrews" is not now used for those other than the Israelites.
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Answer 2
In addition to Answer 1 as a refutation of the question's premise, holding that the Jews are the Chosen people, there are some arguments proferred by those who disbelieve that claim for various reasons.
1) Atheism: If there is no God, then the claim to be chosen by Him goes out the window.
2) Black Israelite Churches: These groups teach that the true Israelites are the Black Africans who were brought to the Americas as slaves. Regardless that this flies in the face of all scholarly evidence, they persist in this view. In order to justify this claim, they must say that they are the real Chosen people and therefore that the Jews are not the Chosen People.
3) Monotheist Transference: A number of Christian and Muslim groups hold that Jews surrendered their claim to be the Chosen people due to their stubbornness and failure to follow the Divine Mandates. As a result, God shifted his "chosenness" to their religious community (Christianity for Christians or Islam for Muslims).
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What group of people believed they were the chosen ones The Egyptians The Hebrews The Babylonians or The Canaanites?
It's possible that all of those groups believed they were chosen in one way or another, but the title of "chosen" has persisted with the Hebrews.
Who lead the Hebrews during the Egypt?
It was Moses who was chosen by God to lead the people out of Egypt.
If the Mediterranean people are all decentants from Noah's son Shem than how did the Hebrews become God's chosen people?
God chose the descendants of Abraham and Isaac as the "chosen" people.
Are the dark skined people hebrews and are they god's chosen people?
There is no physical description of Hebrews in the Bible. We can only assume that they included a range of skin colors, just as the Jews of today. Jewish tradition teaches that the Jews are God's Chosen people, but it is a question of individual belief rather than a statement of truth.
What event made the Hebrews believe that they were Gods chosen people?
Answer:God said so (Exodus ch.19).
What events validated the Hebrew concept that they were the chosen?
The Bible states that they were chosen. De 7:6 "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. De 14:2 "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has CHOSEN you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. So yes, the Hebrews are chosen.
Why did God create billions of other planets and stars if His Chosen People will only be the Hebrews?
Consider that you have only a collection of books written by Hebrews upon which to base the question. (actually it was the Christians who labeled the Jews as "chosen people" first.) In actuality, the Jewish idea of "chosenness" doesn't preclude other nations from being chosen in different ways. So who knows what's out there on other planets.
Are Hebrews sedentary or nomadic people?
The Hebrews were nomadic people organized in tribes
Why did Corrie ten Boom help the Jews?
Corrie ten Boom helped the Jews because they are God’s people, and they were being persecuted by the Nazis. The Jews, or Hebrews, were God’s chosen people.
Who owned the Hebrews?
The Hebrews are considered as Gods own people.
Hebrew people never were God's people because there were no Hebrews?
A:There certainly were Hebrew people, and they began settling in the Levantine hinterland around 1250 BCE. They eventually came to believe they were God's chosen people.Answer 2There are two main arguments made that the Hebrews were not God's people.1) There is no God: If there is no God, then the Hebrews could not have been His people. This is pretty straightforward. Or, if there were such a God, he would not have chosen one group of bronze age people to be "His People".2) Another Group Has Inherited the Mantle: In both Christianity and Islam, the rejection of the latest holy figure (Jesus and Mohammed respectively) resulted in the Jews losing the title of "God's People" on account of such rejection. Christians by and large have not accepted this replacement doctrine, Muslims have.
What did the hebrews call the leader chosen by God to establish an all-powerful kingdom of God on earth?
apostle
