How did the Jews begin?They began, of course, through a miraculous birth. The birth of Isaac, the birth of the nation of God's people.They had a righteous ancestry, a covenant with God, many prophets and Priests to speak from God to direct, teach, rebuke, and correct them. They had an outline for a religion which, when practiced, led them to complete the Shema Deuteronomy 6:4-6. God created them without any excuses. He gave them everything. They couldn't say 'who will go to heaven to bring us the word' because the Prophets were sent, nor could they say who will dive into the deep to get it for us' for the had the priests, the great mountains, to reveal the deeper meanings of things to the people, to teach and direct them.They had righteous ancestry, and thus were not at any 'disadvantageous position'. They, the ones who were spiritually Set, they fell. Is it possible that they act as an image of the spiritual Israel, which was revealed to be us all who love God in the Gospel? If that's the case, is it possible that God saving a remnant of his people at the end; those of his who have come back to him, is an act of Mercy exemplifying God's great love for Israel, and analogous to his great love for Spiritual Israel?I showed with scripture what Paul has taught, you showed with a faulty rational why I am wrong. Let us make two difficult things very clear; Racism isn't the issue here. Racism isn't always wrong, and can be right.What is racism? Racism is discriminating based on 'Race'. Race, here, is defined as a people from a different culture, religion, background and or appearance. Discrimination is acting in accordance with discernment. If I discern that one person is Asian, but do not act any differently {thus, I don't even recognize a difference}, then I am no different. If I recognize that one is a woman from a country/culture where a man speaking to her rather than her husband is a great insult to the husband and to the family, and act accordingly to be respectful, am I being racist? Yes, of course I am, and in that instance, it was the right thing for me to do. If I allow special rights, as a Canadian, to the Aboriginal peoples, am I being Racist? Yes, and rightly so.God is not so simple as you suppose. As I said though, the issue here is not racism. God made a covenant with the Jews in the Tenak. Would you say that the fact that he made a covenant like this with the Jews rather than the gentile nations, is racist? Well, in a sense it was, but it wasn't wrong of him. He, in fact, created them miraculously from Abraham for just that purpose. He promised many things in his covenant with Israel. One of them was that there would always be a remnant.The issue here is God's integrity. Will he hold his word, or will he not?I believe that God planned from the beginning to have this occur, and I believe he has planned in his providence that a remnant should return to him as he appears to them. Zechariah 12:10-13:1 {Don't click the link, look it up}.Read my previous post and look up those passages.~Shalom Elechem