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Chosen people
- Thread starter Leo613
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SpeaksForTheTrees
Well-Known Member
What kind of God would choose one over another.
Is a narcisistic personality disorder to make such claims
Leo613
Active Member
R u saying we're all the same
psychoslice
Veteran Member
We are all chosen, we only need to realize that, there is no group of people, be that a religion or whatever that are chosen over the rest of humanity, to believe this is arrogance.
Leo613
Active Member
R u saying we're all the same
SpeaksForTheTrees
Well-Known Member
Im saying God is not prejudice imho
psychoslice
Veteran Member
In Oneness we are all the same, in the illusion of separation we seem to be not the same, its really your pick.
arthra
Baha'i
I think at the time this concept was revealed .. there was a need to identify the people who recognised the Prophets (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) and God. You'll also note there was a strong tribal identity at the time. So the concept of a Chosen People had a purpose and meaning in the culture and time it was revealed.
Super Universe
Defender of God
When you write your own book you can put whatever you want in it.
It's like saying "Everything on the internet is true".
And someone asks "Where does it say that?"
And you answer "On the internet of course."
It's like saying "Everything on the internet is true".
And someone asks "Where does it say that?"
And you answer "On the internet of course."
Unification
Well-Known Member
Ones that overcome and defeat the ego, dying to self and separation and having a pure and clean mind and heart. One inward.
I don't know what "chosen people" means. Is that like when you're in gym class in high school, and you get picked for teams or something? Eh, I've never really been into team sports. I'll pass.
Pudding
Well-Known Member
Yes, there have many chosen people.
People/group A say God A choose prophet A-J as chosen people.
People/group B say God A choose prophet A-C,F as chosen people.
People/group C say God A choose prophet A,K-Q as chosen people.
People/group D,E,F...etc say God B,C,D...etc choose prophet of various combination as chosen people.
Or believer group A,B,C...etc from religion A,B,C...etc say that they're the chosen people which choose by their respective god(s).
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Leo613
Active Member
To lead the rest
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Yes to lead the rest of the sheep into a dream world.
Ah, I should have also added chosen by whom. Especially in a leadership role, authority must come from above, but obedience/acceptance comes from below. In a corporate environment this is most evident, but in a wider, less organized world no leading people or group are currently accepted I think, history shows only the individual effectively leads... usually to tragic ends.
Pudding
Well-Known Member
And many people cannot agree with each other that which few really stand up, because their experience or evidence or logic is different.'Many are chosen, few stand up.'
"My experience/evidence is true, my logic is logically correct."
"I believe my interpretation is correct because i'm guiding by my God."
Which means many people thinks that only their accepted truth is the truth, but every other people's truth which is contradict to their accepted truth, is not truth but false.
For a time, Jehovah chose the nation of Israel as his exclusive possession. ( Deuteronomy 7:7,8) Even then, foreigners could join the Israelites in true worship. (Isaiah 56:6,7) Due to Israel's failure to keep God's covenant with them, and rejecting the Messiah, I believe God rejected that nation and formed the Christian congregation. (Luke 13:34,35) At first only natural Jews were part of the Christian congregation, but shortly afterward, non-Israelites were welcomed. Today, as in the first century, " God is not partial, but in every nation the man who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him." (Acts 10:34,35)
A Vestigial Mote
Well-Known Member
In reply to the angle from which you are asking the answer is "no". A culture/people have only ever been "chosen" by other people. Think Caesar, Genghis Khan, Hitler... let's not kid ourselves, those examples are what it looks like to esteem one's "brand" of human over another. Carnage, death, suffering, waste. It is not a noble idea except when romanticized in fairy tales.