“Events throughout History challenge
the existence of a special covenant for
the Jewish people.”
My initial idea is that I agree with this
statement as today we have reform
Jews who do not follow all the rules of
the covenant because they do not agree
with it anymore
1 event that would have caused the attitude
towards the covenant for Jews would be the
holocaust. This would of affected the Jews views
on the covenant to believe that even after
following all these rules and obeying everything
that God has told them they still end up in a
horrible situation that they are unable to get out
of
An opposing view may be that events through time
have caused the Jews to be stronger and gain more
faith in the covenant and that they should follow it
even more religiously to help them not get into these
situations
for example, Jews that
survived the
concentration camps
would be even more
orthodox as a way of
thanking God for keeping
them alive.
some Jews would have seen there life
being saved as a great gift, so they would
have followed every rule to the letter and
done more, as a way of forgiveness for
not following the covenant while they
were in the concentration camps