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#49 Other faiths, Judaism and Gnosticism

Ask NT Wright Anything

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Are the Jews Still God's Chosen People?

The question is, will Jews as God's chosen people who do not believe in Jesus have eternal life when the Lord returns? I'd so appreciate any light you can shed on this issue. Tom Sachs: The Bible says absolutely nothing about that in the Bible. And there were Jewish thinkers in the first century like Philo and Josephus,. two of the greatest Jewish intellectuals in the time of Jesus and Paul. They believed that the diaspora, the spread of Jews throughout the world was a fulfillment of that rather than coming back to a land where then they would be at home.

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