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 freely was the Holy Spirit bestowed upon Him?
After creating Adam and Eve, what did God say to them?
With what question did Christ meet their false ideas and reasoning regarding Sabbath-keeping?
What was Paul's manner respecting the Sabbath?
16. What striking testimony is borne by Neander, the noted church historian, regarding the origin of the Sunday Sabbath?
Why was woe at this same time proclaimed to the world?
18. Lest the Gentile grafts should boast, saying that the Jews were broken off to let them come in, what warning is given them?

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