Because many christians see themselves as evolved Jewish people, they follow the "greatest Jewish man who ever lived"... Jesus. Christianity has jewish origins.

people don't think that far ahead? I don't know... maybe it changed after Jesus? What people are more concerned with is following a feeling or what they believe regardless of proof or fact or teachings or whatever.

Since when has being the chosen people meant that they are right? If you read the Old Testament, then you will see that Israel's history is one of cyclic periods of apostasy and righteousness. There were plenty of times in their history when Israel turned their backs on their God and the prophets that He sent to them and followed after idols. The latest period of apostasy started not long after the end of the Old testament and ultimately led them to reject and crucify the very Messiah for whom they had been waiting. For the vast majority of Jews, this apostasy continues to this day. This does not mean that they are no longer God's chosen people. They may have rejected Him, but He will not reject them. One day they will realize their error and repent. God has said that it will happen. So, it will. He has not forgotten His covenants with their fathers. So, it would behoove us as Christians to not forget them either. They may not be on the true path at the moment, but that does not give us the right to judge or persecute them. Any Christian who uses our differences in beliefs as an excuse to abuse the Jews will have to answer to God for their persecution of His chosen people.

The Biblical teaching of the Jews as the Chosen, refers to the special Covenant that God made with them during the Old Testament. They were a special people set apart from the rest of humanity, who would act out, as though in a play, the role of God's people. The Old Covenant with God's chosen was completed in the Messiah, Jesus Christ, who Himself came (on the human side) from the Jewish race. As the New Testament explains in many places, such as in Romans chapters 9 through 11, "not all Israel" are the true Israel. He uses the analogy of a tree, in which the Jewish unbelievers were broken off, and the Gentiles who believed on faith were "grafted in." Throughout the New Testament Paul explains that the "true Israel" is those who believe in the Jew's Messiah -- a group which does include some of the Jewish race (Paul himself, as he points out) but many Gentiles as well. Even in the Old Testament, faith in the true God came before the law was given -- Abraham believed, and God credited it to him as righteousness, and this was *before* he was circumcised in the flesh. Again, Paul notes, that a Jew is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly -- and the Jewish physical sign (circumcision) meant nothing of its own sake; what counts is circumcision of the heart. The Book of Hebrews addresses the fact that even in the Old Covenant, the Jews were playing out a "shadow" that was like the real thing (the spiritual realities and Heaven), but that it fell short in many ways and was not the real thing -- the blood of animals could never complete it, but only show as a "type" of the greater fulfillment which was yet to come.

The HQ says that God created races not so that one race may regard itself superior to others or more noble purely on account of its race. HQ 49:13 says “O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another.” HQ 49:11 adds “O ye who believe! Let not one folk deride another folk, they (the ones derided) may be better than them (the ones deriding)” And according to HQ 5:18 to anyone who claims special status, for example by saying “We are sons of God and His loved ones.” we are asked to “Say; Why then doth He chastise you for your sins? Nay, ye are but mortals of His creating. He forgiveth whom He will, and chastiseth whom He will. God's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, and unto Him is the journeying.” We can conclude with another part of HQ 49:13 which says “Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of God, is the best in conduct. Lo! God is Knower, Aware.”

I am just fascinated by this. I have come in contact with a number of Christian fundamentalists that claim that Jews have lost their right to be the 'chosen' people and that the Christians are now the 'chosen' ones. Therefore, they argued that Christians must save the Jews by converting them to Christianity or, at least, Messianic Judaism so that they may be saved before 'The rapture'. This is exactly what is meant by 'One day they will realize their error and repent' in Mr Baylock's answer. The arrogance of it all!!! Of course, if I was driven by a multi-million dollar industry, perhaps I would succumb to the same nonsense.

Because Christian Fundamentalists think they are the chosen ones just as every successive religion does. Shame really. It will be a sad day when they find out that God loves all human beings not just them.