So in a mythic kind of way we can say that Abraham recognizes God and that Abraham launches the process—biological and social and cultural—that will culminate in the people of Israel ...

"[God] said it is ours ... "Are we going in the direction of our destiny as a chosen people in the Land of Israel — as a Jewish state according to Jewish law? Or are we a secular leftist ...

When Jesus told his disciples, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel,” he referenced His Jewish people. They were God’s “chosen people” whom Jesus came to serve. Through Jesus’s ...