Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?

Answer

"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled
at that stumbling-stone!' Rom. 9: 31, 32.

What is one purpose for which the Holy Spirit was sent?
Upon what basis has Christ taught us to ask forgiveness?
What did Daniel ask of one of the heavenly attendants who stood by him in his dream?
How was the \"devotion\", of the \"faithful\" disturbed?
What may be said of the developments in the line of scientific inventions since 1798?
13. The righteous dead are raised at Christ's second coming. When will the rest of the dead, the wicked, be raised?
To what place were the angels that sinned cast?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle