Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?

Answer

"But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled
at that stumbling-stone!' Rom. 9: 31, 32.

What two facts testify to the union of divinity and humanity in Christ?
Through what does grace reign unto eternal life?
Is there a limit to the strivings of God's Spirit?
With what did He say they would he baptized?
How enduring are His commandments?
What two covenants are contrasted in the Bible?
How is the church at the first advent described?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle