Chosen People

In the Hebrew Bible (or Tanach ), called the Old Testament in Christianity, “His people” is the exact phrase used in the text, referring to the tribes of Israel . In the Book of Deuteronomy , the Tetragrammaton proclaims the people of Israel, originally known as the tribes of Israel , “only to Him [God], belonging to all people on earth” ( Deut. 7: 6 ). As mentioned in the Book of Exodus , the Jewish people are God's chosen people, from which the Messiah, or savior of the world, will emerge. The Israelites also possess the “Word of God” and / or the “Law of God” in the form of the Torah , God-given Moses. Jews and, as a result, Christians as “ Spiritual Israel ” consider themselves to be “chosen people.”

There is a conviction in Judaism about being chosen that there is a covenant between Jews and God. In modern rabbinism, the idea is not related to the descendants of Jacob (Israel), as was the case in biblical Judaism, since non-Jews can become Jews.

The Jewish idea of ​​being chosen is first mentioned in the Torah (the Pentateuch of Moses ) and is developed in the later books of the Tanakh . This status carries both responsibility and blessing, as described in the biblical covenant with God. Much has been written on this topic in rabbinical literature.

Chosenness means a specific set of duties in addition to the seven laws of Noah , given to all mankind. Every descendant of Noah (non-Jew) bears the responsibility to live according to the seven laws of the descendants of Noah.

In the religious circles of Judaism, it appears that it is precisely the strict adherence to all the laws of Judaism that makes Jews the chosen people, although ordinary orthodox thinking asserts that even a fully secular Jew is part of the chosen people and is considered a “full-fledged” Jew.

Seventh Day Adventists

In the traditional theology of Seventh-day Adventists and the three-angels' message, their church is considered the surviving people of the last days , as stated in Revelation 12:17 . According to this view, Adventists are "chosen" by God in order to proclaim Revelation 14, the three-angelical message, before the whole world.

In Mormonism, all Latter-day Saints are considered to have made a covenant with God, or God's chosen ones; and they accepted the name of Jesus Christ. This acceptance is done through baptism. Unlike supersessionism , Latter-day Saints do not dispute the status of the "chosenness" of the Jewish people. In the doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, all living people have the opportunity to make this covenant for a thousand years. Mormon eschatology believes that Jews, as the chosen people, will eventually adopt Christianity (see Jeremiah 31: 31-34).

Most Latter-day Saints receive a patriarchal blessing that indicates their origin in the House of Israel. This genealogy can be linked by blood or through "adoption", therefore, the child does not have to share the genealogy of his parents (and remain a member of the tribes of Israel). There is a widespread belief ^{[1] [2]} that most of the Companions of the Faith come out of the tribe of Ephraim and the tribe of Manasseh .

Rastafarianism contains six basic principles, including the perfect election of the black race in the eyes of Jah (God incarnate), which makes them physically and spiritually higher than all other people. Many Rastafarians believe that they are physically immortal, believing that some of the elect happen to live forever in their current bodies. This idea of ​​infinite (rather than eternal) life is an important aspect of Rastafarianism.

According to the Jewish biblical tradition and the Ethiopian legend through Kebra Negast , it is believed that the Rastafarians, the Israeli king Solomon and the Ethiopian queen of Sheba, conceived a child who gave birth to the kin of Ethiopia, thereby assigning African peoples to the true sons of Israel, and therefore to the chosen people. Strengthening of faith in this happened when the Ethiopian Jews were saved from starvation in Sudan and brought to Israel during Operation Moses in 1985.

Mun Song Myung (1920–2012) taught that Korea is the birthplace of a chosen people, selected for the fulfillment of a divine mission. Korea, as Mun says, was “chosen by God to be the birthplace of the key personality of the age”, and to be the birthplace of the “Heavenly Tradition” that leads people into the kingdom of God.

Symbol of God's chosen people in ep. Zhou (1046–256 BC), then entrenched in the Chinese literature of the imperial period, made a heavenly mandate . However, his stance belonged not to the people in the modern national sense, but to the ruling elite, which belonged primarily to one clan.

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