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.

How was the earth itself affected by Adam's sin ?
Through whom are we reconciled to God?
What reply did the Lord immediately make?
21. What shows that the new, or second, covenant and the Abrahamic covenant are virtually the same?
What is one reason why the last days were to be perilous?
What striking figure is used to describe the destruction wrought under the second trumpet?
How may grace and peace be multiplied in believers?

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