Together with their Jewish brothers and sisters, Christians believe that God chose ancient Israel as the people through whose history the divine purpose for all humanity would begin to be most clearly disclosed. It might perhaps seem odd for God to have concentrated on a single nation in this way, and I certainly do not think it means that there was no divine concern for other peoples. In fact, I believe that all the great world faith traditions preserve, in their different manners and in different
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