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 …showed first 75 words of 570 total…

…showed last 75 words of 570 total…means they must be more accountable for their sins and accept their suffering in hope that others would be spared. The Jewish people believed that through their suffering, freedom and justice could spread to all humankind. The Jewish people have been affirmed in their belief that they are in deed the “chosen people” because only through intervention from God could they have survived as a people and reestablished the nation of Israel against overwhelming odds.