[rdb3]

But the real reason that the Jews are God's chosen people is because that was God's unconditional, irrevocable covenant with Abraham, which He repeated to Isaac and Jacob

Right! Didn't the LORD make that covenant to Abraham in Genesis 15? A deep sleep came down on Abraham and the LORD walked between the sacrifices alone. Talk about His Sovereignty!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.

Do it!

[jda]

Didn't the LORD make that covenant to Abraham in Genesis 15?

God made several promises to Abraham, starting in Genesis 12, and sealed those promises with a one-sided covenant in Genesis 15 (normally, a covenent was two-sided - I'll do this for you and you'll do that for me, sealed by both parties performing a ceremony - but Abraham didn't have to do anything). In fact, God did the covenent ceremony twice (a smoking furnace and a burning lamp) to emphasize it.

Yes, we serve an awesome God.