It warms my heart that most on this board don't buy into the evangelical BS of believing that the modern State of Israel isn't the 'chosen ones'.
I guess many have read their Bibles. In the Bible Jesus ended the sacrificial system, and opened up salvation to everyone meaning us gentiles out here whether white, black, oriental, Indian, or what ever.
Good to see people are actually awake to what Jesus' mission was and what he stood for and taught.
Amen.
Here is what a Rhabi says "1 - Yes, one can convert to Judaism.
2 - Indeed, Jews believe that God has chosen the Jewish people - and assigned to them specific tasks in order to bring blessing to the world (and we’ve come a long way in the past three to four thousand years). For anyone who doubts that, see Deuteronomy 7:6–9, and note that the daily Jewish prayers include a blessing that concludes “Blessed are You, transcendental God, Who has chosen His people Israel lovingly.”
3 - The above lead to the conclusion that, indeed, one can choose to be a member of the chosen people (by taking on their covenant with God, which includes the above-mentioned long-range and short-range goals of bringing assorted blessings to all peoples on earth).
Thus, that means that in order to become a member of the chosen people you MUST REJECT JESUS. Hoe messed up is it that Christians agree that this makes yiu a chosen person
Yes you absolutely can convert to Judaism. You could in Jesus' day as well as today. In Jesus' day they were called "Jewish proselytes". Today, in most synagogues, there is a conversion process that anyone can go thru to become a "Jew". In Jesus' day the scribes and Pharisees boasted that "we have Abraham for our father". Ishmael was also a son of Abraham. So his descendants (Arabs/Palestinians?) can make the same claim. I love what Paul the Apostle wrote in Romans: "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." (Romans 2:29 KJV). Today there's only one kind of "Jew" - all those who have accepted Jesus of Nazareth as their Messiah.