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 rendered it possible for God to treat sinners thus?
3. Before the giving of the law at Sinai, what did Moses say when Jethro asked him concerning his judging the people?
On what did God write the Ten Commandments?
What was to he inflicted upon one of the heads of this beast?
What was the object of the church bishops in securing these Sunday laws?
When we see all these things, what are we to know?
What announcement is made under the seventh plague?

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