The Un-Chosen People

According to the Tanakh / Old Testament Bible, YHWH / Yahweh / Jehova (God) selected the Israelites as his chosen people and formed an exclusive covenant with them[36].

But if YHWH is the universe’s only God and/or supreme God, why would He confine His religion to a small ethnic group that comprises less than 1% of world’s population, while deliberately excluding the other 99% of mankind?


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[36] For instance, in Deuteronomy 7:6-*, it says, ?[YHWH said:] For you [Israelites] are a holy people to YHWH your God: YHWH your God has chosen you to be a special people to himself, above all people that are on the face of the earth. YHWH did not set his love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any people?for you were the fewest of all people. But because YHWH loved you, and because he would keep the oath he had sworn to your fathers, YHWH has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of slavery??