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.

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What kind of faith avails with God?
How great was the agony of His soul?
In what age of the world is disobedience to parents to be especially manifest?
How should the youth he taught to regard the aged?
Who did he say he was?
How suddenly will the plagues come upon modern Babylon?

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