During a time when most people in the world believed in numerous gods a new monotheistic religion arose, Judaism. Their god, Yahweh, is all-powerful, all knowing, and all seeing, responsible for both all good and evil in the world and the creator of all that exists.
While many of these other religions of the time taught of unprincipled gods, the God of the Jewish faith was moral and expected those who followed the teachings to be the same. The gods of these other faiths also had no interest in humans, the Jews reversed this notion for Yahweh loved human beings so much that he spoke with Abraham and promised to bless the Jewish people so long as they worshiped the one true God. This loving and moral God of the Jewish people gave humans supremacy over the Earth and its resources.
Though God is not to be gendered or colored and there are to be no images attribu
Part of this word that God gave the Jewish is The Ten Commandments. The word commandment may be taken wrongly in this context, God is not to strike you down if you were to break one of these rules, but they are the guidelines in which society should live by in order to have healthy human relations. The Jewish people look at these guidelines not as obligations but as gifts from God and as long as the Ten Commandments are followed it will lead you to a more joyful life.
Abraham established a covenant with God when he answered Yahweh’s call to live a holy life and obey his commandments. It is because of this covenant that the Jewish refer to themselves as the “chosen people,” though this may seem arrogant it is actually humble in for the Jewish have taken many responsibilities on themselves. Being the “chosen people,” means they must be more accounta