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I think the "relationship" aspect has more potential than anything else. God in the OT was nothing if not a God of contradictions. Even amidst His own strict rules and laws, He would step beyond them if a person or group of people turned to Him.
Maybe its a controversial statement, but aren't Jews more of a religious persuasion and culture than race? That is, anyone who converts to Judaism, is essentially a Jew. Or am I wrong on that point?
Regardless, in the OT, God showed mercy to people outside of the Jews, IF they turned to Him. E.g., Ninevah, Ruth, Rahab, etc. (Were the Ninevans Jews or Heathens? Were they heathens only because they didn't worship God?)
And, if everyone came from Adam, then essentially everyone started out with the same free will to choose God, and by the choices they made or their ancestors made, they ended up in a different place. I don't see in scripture where God set aside a little group from the very beginning, and said, "I'm only going to love you, everyone else I will hate." No, people set themselves apart, like Cain and Esau.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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