God Is The Creator Of All People, And The Israelites

The modern Christian religion tells each of its followers that God loves us all, sinners and innocents alike, if only we would accept God into our hearts. But how true is that statement? While God is the creator of all people, and the Israelites are supposed to be his chosen people, God does not act as such in the Bible. Rather than being interested in humanity in general, or even the Israelites specifically, God is primarily interested in certain individuals. These works suggest that even God has favorites. From Abraham to Moses to David, and all those heroes of the Bible, God preserves the peoples from which he derives these favored individuals. In these passages, the presence of a â€Å"chosen one† makes or breaks a society, and more often†¦show more content†¦As soon as Adam and Eve disobey God, he bans them from the garden of Eden. God drives out â€Å"man and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to g uard the way to the tree of life† and to the entrance to the garden of Eden (Genesis 3:24). These people may have been cared for by God, but by disobeying him, they lose God’s favor, showing that it was only favor that Adam and Eve had to begin with. Even the Israelites, God’s chosen people, are only briefly in God’s favor, and that is not as a result of any inherent interest in this group of people, but rather because the majority of God’s favorite individuals arise from this group. The people of Israel were overcome by the Egyptians and the Egyptians thus â€Å"set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens† (Exodus 1:11). The Israelites â€Å"groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help† and only then â€Å"God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob† (Exodus 2:23; Exodus 2:24). God had forgotten about the people he promised to provide prosperity for in the future. In addition , God does not remember the covenant as being with the Israelite peoples, but with his favorites of the previous generations, i.e. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Furthermore, rather than choosing to then save all of the Israelites with the power God obviously