DLL, <<<I believe that we as Gentiles are indeed adopted into the family of God. However Israel has not been adopted as we have but are God's first born.>>>
God does not look down from heaven and say, that those are his Jewish believers versus those over there who are his Gentile believers. Only the dictates of man in his pride would suggest this sort of distinction exists in the eyes of God.
He came to his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1
Chris |