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Nehemiah 1;8 "Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.' "They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.

I'm still not sure that's the quote I was thinking of, either--but I'll try to find it when I have time.

Rather than getting bogged down on that issue, I have a larger question to ask.

It's been my understanding that Christianity was originally regarded as a sect of Judaism.

What's more, it seems to me that Christianity is the continuation of Judaism--i.e., that Jesus is the Judaic Messiah.

If I understand this correctly, then it would seem that Christianity is the true Judaism; and that those people who refuse to recognize Christ as Messiah are in error (would it be accurate to say they are heretics?).

And if Christianity is the true Judaism, then the followers of Christianity are the true Jews.

And therefore, would not Christians be the chosen people?

(Mind, I am not trying to antagonize you or anyone; I am genuinely curious about these ideas.)