Imagine following a religion where you aren't even the Chosen People.
THE CHOSEN ONES ARE THOSE WHO ACCEPT, FOLLOW, AND OBEY CHRIST.
>>18470715>But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.We have been adopted into the family of God.
>>18470737If you read the beginning of 1 Peter it is very clear that the letter is addressed to the Israelites exiled among the nations and not to gentiles.>To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:
>>18470715The line through Abraham never did encompass the whole of those that constitute God's house, and your dispensationalist heresy is retarded.
>>18470718Thank God that jesus the criminal is not the christ.
>>18471031Denying the resurrection is suicide and jews should know better.
>>18471035>Denying the resurrectionThe jew named paul know better. If jesus the criminal is not raised, faith is worthless and useless.
>>18470715It hardly matters if you are special or not. Everything runs on a cost/benefit equation, the benefit of eternal happiness in heaven overwhelmingly outweighs the cost of not being special or letting a 2000 year old man live rent free in your heartCompare this with Buddhism where there is no chosen people but the best case scenario is that you cease to exist
