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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Canaanites didn't believe the early Israelites' religion. So taking Jewish pov as established fact doesn't work, either. It's like the old myth about there being turtles all the way down. [/quote]

God didnt make a covenant with them. They weren't his people. [b]Thats why it makes no sense that God then chose the Romans to be his people[/b]. [/quote]

You are inverting the Christian understanding with the bolded.   God did not choose the Romans (or anny other people) after Christ.  After Christ’s redemptive act on the cross on behalf of all humans, God is no longer choosing a people within humanity, but rather God is allowing all of humanity to choose to be in relationship with God, through Jesus. Hence, the emphasis on John 3:16, especially in Protestant circles. John 3:16 sums up the Christian understanding/message as succinctly as possible.   There is more depth to it, but that is the very core essence of Christianity and how it builds upon the OT. [/quote]

Except that it doesnt build upon the OT except possibly the commandments. There is little correlation from God's plan in the OT to God's plan in the NT. Even the afterlife is different. As well as the commandments. What was the point of Leviticus or even the Exodus? There is no flow from one to the other from God's perspective.  [/quote]

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