You can imagine the Hebrew priest thought that if anyone was to be saved, it must certainly be them. But although they did all the works, they lacked the spiritual relationship, and turned the marriage Covenant with YHWH into a religion of tradition. And, instead of re-examining their position when condemned, they became angry and had called the Messiah, a blasphemer worthy of death.
Now this is where grace comes in. Left to ourselves, we will always attempt to make God in OUR image, and try to bestow upon Him qualities that we feel He should have in order to be worthy of our praise. We dont want Him to be like the God of the old testament, nor do we want to believe He spoke with the intent to mislead in the new. So we flock to Paul's writings, which seem to fix everything right up, as long as we ignore YHWH and his prophets, calling ourselves "new testament" Christians. Thus we find ourselves depending on a misinterpretation of Paul's letters for salvation, and making a new, nicer God that we like better. this is the Great Falling Away from the truth, as it is worldwide.
But by grace, the elect are saved from this subtle deception.
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