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• ‟ Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

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• ‟ There is, of course, only one chosen nation. But Abraham Lincoln would call America 'an almost chosen nation' because he believed that America had a providential role to play in history, inspired by the example of God's ancient covenant people.

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• ‟ Rather than forgive, we can wish ill; rather than hope for repentance, we can instead hope that our enemies experience the wrath of God.

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• ‟ To the Christian Church, the destruction of the Temple served as an ultimate sign that the Jews were no longer God's chosen people, divine favor having now been transferred to a newer and better Israel.

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• ‟ Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

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• ‟ We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

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• ‟ The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

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• ‟ How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.

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• ‟ To Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant Christians, communion involves partaking of the physical real presence of God in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. By contrast, the Torah draws the Jew into engagement with God's infinite mind. Torah learning is the definitive Jewish mode of communion with God.

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• ‟ Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.

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• ‟ The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.

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• ‟ God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

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• ‟ If God loves human beings and seeks to relate to them because he is drawn to something unique about them, then his love must be exclusive and cannot be universal.

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• ‟ The moment that one person in an argument claims to be God, dialogue and debate become impossible.

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• ‟ Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other human beings to become gods with him.

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• ‟ For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

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• ‟ Not only were the Jewish people beloved, but God himself had taken pains to let them know it. Could there be any clearer sign that he continued to believe in their potential, even without the Temple, to achieve forgiveness and ultimately merit the Temple's rebuilding?

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• ‟ Either Jesus is the son of God, or he is not.

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• ‟ Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

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