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Why did Yahweh the God of the Jewish faith seem absent and silent during the destruction of His chosen people?
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If God is absent in times of need, this leads to any of four conclusions:
- God does not really exist, a tenet of Atheism;
- God may have created the world but afterwards took no interest in what happened, a tenet of deism;
- God feels that the people deserve whatever is coming to them, a view frequently expressed in the Old Testament to explain the puzzling absence of God when he was needed;
- Yahweh, the God of the Jewish faith, is cruel and vindictive, a view held by many early Gnostics and other early Christian sects.
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What do Jewish people really believe?
Bear in mind, when asking this kind of question, that the Jewish people are an ethnic group as well as a religious group. Not all ethnic Jews believe in the Jewish religion. And for those who do believe in Judaism, there are also several varieties of Judaism, just as there are varieties of Christianity or of Islam (or any other major religion). The basic principles of Judaism are that there is only one God (usually refered to as Adonai, meaning my lord, or by the more pious Jews as Hashem, meaning the name; the unspoken name of God is Yahweh - a name too holy to actually utter) who created the universe and who wishes to be worshipped by human beings, and that the Jews are the chosen people of God; a more detailed account of Jewish beliefs can be found in the sacred book called the Torah by Jews, or the Old Testament by Christians. Correction: The word Yahweh is Christian in origin and is not, nor ever has been, used by Jews. The Jewish Bible is called the Tanach, and although the Christian Old Testament is based on the Tanach, they are not the same.
Were the planes hijacked in 911 full of passengers?
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What other names have the Jewish people been given throughout history?
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What was the fortress that roman soldiers reached with an earthen ramp?
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The members of Jewish Councils were chosen by the SS. (There were no elections).
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This is a somewhat difficult question to answer as you're asking about Jews in reference to Yahweh which is a Christian word that has never been used by Jews. Disregarding the term 'Yahweh', Jew is the Anglicisation of the Hebrew Yehudi.
Is Judaism considered the chosen religion?
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Is modern day Israel God's chosen people today?
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No, he is of a certain chosen people of Israel. He is Jewish.
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The Jewish belief in the chosen people influenced the laws to a great extent. They believed in being governed directly by God which is what formed most if their beliefs and laws.
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What is the Jewish word for a person who is not one of the chosen?
There is no Hebrew or Yiddish word that refers to someone who is not Jewish. In English, the Hebrew word "goy" is used, but this word only means "nation". Jews do not have a specific word that they use to reference the fact that non-Jews are not Chosen.
What do Jewish people really believe?
Bear in mind, when asking this kind of question, that the Jewish people are an ethnic group as well as a religious group. Not all ethnic Jews believe in the Jewish religion. And for those who do believe in Judaism, there are also several varieties of Judaism, just as there are varieties of Christianity or of Islam (or any other major religion). The basic principles of Judaism are that there is only one God (usually refered to as Adonai, meaning my lord, or by the more pious Jews as Hashem, meaning the name; the unspoken name of God is Yahweh - a name too holy to actually utter) who created the universe and who wishes to be worshipped by human beings, and that the Jews are the chosen people of God; a more detailed account of Jewish beliefs can be found in the sacred book called the Torah by Jews, or the Old Testament by Christians. Correction: The word Yahweh is Christian in origin and is not, nor ever has been, used by Jews. The Jewish Bible is called the Tanach, and although the Christian Old Testament is based on the Tanach, they are not the same.
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Anakin Skywalker was the chosen one, whose fate was to bring balance to the Force. This he eventually did, in episode six, after many serious missteps and the destruction of the planet Aldaraan, which is difficult to forgive.
