Why does god have "preferred people"? He supposedly loves every one of us and yet he despics egyptians over HIS people. If god gave free will to everyone, why didnt he just let egyptians keep their slaves? After all, the slaves would have had the free will to organize and fight but noooo god almighty couldn't and had to use another human to do his dirty work.
Makes me look at god like the mafia boss who is hiring Moses to his dirty business.
Are you serious?
If he's not, I am. Sounds like a pretty legit question to me. What problem do you have with this question?
Why would a creator god have a "chosen people"? A "chosen" subset which he assists in massacring neighboring peoples numerous times, such as he (in the story) did with David? (As a side note, how ridiculous were those stories? An almighty god helping one of his people wipe out other groups of people? If he wanted to do that, why not just make the enemies drop dead? Problem solved. Unbelievable)
Is your problem with the "why didnt he just let egyptians keep their slaves?" comment? If he had a problem with one group of people enslaving another group of people, why not rain down plagues upon the people of the United States during the mid to late 1800s? Does he like the Israelites more than the Africans? For that matter, why all the instructions in the bible about rules for beating your slave, but no condemnation of slavery?
Speaking of the whole Israelites being the "chosen people" nonsense, isnt it funny he doesnt help them out anymore, or at least not directly like he used to? Why do they need us to supply them with weapons to protect themselves? You would think if they were the "chosen people" and he used to help them take down other nations (speaking to their leaders directly, carving commandments into stone for them, etc.), he would just send down plagues on the nations that threaten them. Why nowadays does he take the hidden, let-nature-take-its-course approach?
Or is it now the United States that's the "chosen people"? That must be it. And he works by calling/placing people like GW Bush in positions of power and giving him subtle clues, and speaking to him through religious advisors, to invade countries like Iraq and spread his "word". That must be it. But no slavery anymore. Now that's bad in his eyes.
Wake up, buddy. There's no invisible being in the sky watching down upon us. Or at least certainly not the one described in the hebrew scriptures. They were the "chosen people" because it was their friggin' belief system!!! Just because the Chinese people were at the center of
their mythology, Indian people were at the center of
their etc etc etc.
You are a christian because you were raised in a time and place where christianity predominated. Time to snap out of it and move on. You are a part of a large-scale cult. Nothing more.
