Why were the chosen people chosen?

Answer 1

The Israelites believed they were the chosen people. Each nation in ancient times had a patron god, who they may have believed to have chosen them. The other nations have long since adopted new religions or disappeared from history, but the Jews have survived because of God's covenant, so we have their tradition of a chosen people.

Answer

In Judaism, the phrase 'chosen' does not mean that we think that we are better than anyone else or have an elevated status before God. What 'chosen' refers to is that we were chosen to keep the Torah, that is it. What most people don't know is that according to Jewish teachings, God actually offered the Torah to every other nation before the Israelites but we were the only ones to accept it without question.

Judaims teaches that there are different paths to God and Judaism is the path for Jews. The Torah provides the guidelines for the Jewish path.

• Answer:

They were chosen specially by the Most High because of the covenant with Abraham, a friend of the Most High who searched for Him when many were turning to stone and wood and graven images to worship. Though many had gone, and have gone astray, though they are the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Most High still loves them and those who turn to Him, and will keep the covenant He has with them.