Since the beginning of Christianity, anti-Jewish sentiments have been pervasive among large segments of its adherents. Even while a growing number of believers are choosing to stand with Israel, antisemitic influences remain embedded in certain ideologies that target the Jewish people with accusations of wickedness (whether those claims are rooted in reality, or not). But these allegations are not merely an end in themselves. Their strategy is to assert that Israel’s sins have annulled their position as God’s people. But is this really so? Does Israel’s status as the chosen nation depend upon whether they are righteous or wicked? Not at all, and in Deuteronomy 9, we find Moses clearly demonstrating the contrary: that God’s choosing of the Jewish people is not dependent upon their righteousness, but is instead based on the promises He made to their fathers, as well as on His own reputation which He tied to those promises.
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