We started with Adam and Eve, living in the perfect environment and yet they still chose to follow their own way rather than God's. Then God blessed Jacob and set his family apart as God's chosen people - Israel. God gives Israel the Law - a perfect law given by God himself. And we see Israel time and time again not be able to keep that law.
Paul writes in Romans 3:20 "For no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the law commands. The law simply shows us how sinful we are"
Hindsight is 20/20 and we can look back and see how right Paul was and how true is statement still is today. Israel was saved but not because they had the law of God and were able to keep it. They were saved because of the relationship they had to God. The same is true for us today.
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