Are the Jews still the chosen people?

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I tend to follow St. Paul in Romans 9-11 on the matter:

Romans 9


Romans 10


Romans 11


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I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Of course not ! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel ?
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“Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
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But what is God’s response to him? “I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not knelt to Baal .”
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So also at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
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But if by grace, it is no longer because of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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What then? What Israel was seeking it did not attain, but the elect attained it; the rest were hardened…
 
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How we treat one another, which, as you know, is a reflection of our godliness, is certainly a great start. As far as your religion is concerned, you are in an enviable position in that you will forever be a Jew by birth and a Catholic by baptism. Neither of these facts can ever be undone.
 
Doesn’t always feel so enviable. Sometimes I don’t know which way to turn.
 
I can understand the confusion and the need to figure things out.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I can understand the confusion and the need to figure things out.
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There’s a lot of that - confusion. Hard to know where I belong. My dad was Catholic. That’s how we came to be baptized in the Catholic church.
 
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You need to know what path to follow in
your relationship with God.
I know when I studied Judaism, I felt something was missing and yet after being
Catholic for 10 years, I still struggle with my faith.
There is a lot to figure out.
 
To the Jewish People, there are books in the Bible that contain Law. One of the genres of Biblical writing is Law, legal code.
Moses was given these codes by God.
 
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That’s me too, constant learner. Although my Jewish family hid their religion because of the traumas of the war. Will it place us in good steed with God though.
 
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There certainly is. I have always felt my core identity is Jewish, and it probably is. We celebrated the Jewish holidays at home. My Catholic father would go to his sister’s to celebrate the Christian holidays. My mother did not like Catholicism because she didn’t understand it. She had many misconceptions about it. My father insisted all the children be baptized in the Catholic Church, though, and my mother didn’t oppose him on that. We all went to Catholic schools, so we learned about Catholicism there.
 
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That’s me too, constant learner. Although my Jewish family hid their religion because of the traumas of the war. Will it place us in good steed with God though.
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I’m sure it will. My Jewish ancestors were living in Germany after immigrating from the Caucasus Mountain region. They somehow made their way to England, then some to Brazil. They lived in a little village called Waldshut, Germany, before immigrating to England, then Brazil. I’ve visited Waldshut. It’s very interesting, very ancient.
 
All I know is Austria, in the war, but that’s it. I think the scars are too great to be overcome
 
They are for many people who lived through that time period.
 
Maybe you should check out the Hebrew
Catholics. Have you heard of the book
Salvation Is From the Jews by Roy Schoeman (I hope I spelled his last name
correctly.). He is a Hebrew Catholic.

Your background is very interesting.
 
Thank you for the book recommendation. I will check it out. 🙂
 
Messianic Judaism is a stealth evangelical sect whose sole goal is to convert Jews to (Protestant) Christianity. It does not follow Jewish law at all, it just uses the trappings of the synagogue and holiday observances to lure in Jewish people.
 
My first Hebrew teacher was a Brazilian-born Israeli (now sadly deceased). His father was from Poland, his mother from Romania, who had both moved to Brazil in the thirties. All the members of both families who stayed behind in Europe were wiped out in the Holocaust.
 
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