Israel the Chosen

By the evidence within the New Testament itself should convince you that there was an inner circle that was started by Christ and that there was indeed a secret knowledge that he conveyed to them, but was revealed only in parables to all outside that circle.  Those outside the inner circle are viewed as the "sheep."

Many people shun away with the words granted, or chosen, for instance Christianity itself teaches that the Jews are the chosen race.  Many people don't feel comfortable with this.

Christianity does not teach that the Jews are the chosen people.  This is all based around ignorance and misinterpretation.  The average person is blatantly ignorant when they hear the word "chosen", that Israel are a chosen people and that Israel represents the Jews.  Israel is a plural creation and not singular. The chosen factor began with Abraham.  This concept is erred and based on the patriarchal dominance of the time.  The entire story of Abraham and Sarah has been deliberately falsified.  The real main principle of the story is Sarah and the child from her womb, Isaac.  Sarah was a Mesopotamian princess and her destination was Egypt where she wed the ruling Pharaoh, the greatest conquering Pharaoh of the era.  Abraham betrothed with Hagar, an Egyptian midwife assigned to Sarah, and also through another concubine.

Are you suggesting that the Pharaoh was the father of Sarah's child?

Well, don't you find it funny that Abraham, after all those years, could not make Sarah conceive?  But as soon as she is taken as wife by the Pharaoh, Sarah is suddenly pregnant. He had no problem impregnating Hagar or his concubines.  Isaac was the only child had by Sarah.  And she was not 90 years old as the Old Testament states, but probably in her early 20's.  The blessings from this point on go through Isaac, down to Jacob (who became Israel) down to Joseph, where it was shared amongst the tribes of Israel.  It is Israel that was chosen, the Jews make up just one small portion of the House of Israel, being the House of Judah.  We must also remember that Judah split away from Israel, thereby the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah came into being, and these two nations were at constant war with each other.  The nation of Israel was scattered by invading peoples and became the Lost Tribes of Israel.  One hundred years later, Judah was taken into Babylonian captivity.  We know the journey of Judah, but not of Israel.  And while we are speaking of Sarah and her marriage to Pharaoh we can find some different meaning to the name Israel, for instance, Isis/Ra/Elohim.  Word play?  Coincidence?  Who knows.

There is much more that can be said about Abraham and Sarah but they are not the basis of our discussion.  There are many serious researchers who have studied the story of the two Biblical characters and a Google search will produce many interesting links.  Just sieve through the mountains of misinformation.