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Originally Posted by myboynoah
How do you know that was God's intent and not a product of an Israelite sense of superiority over their Gentile neighbors? God intervened with Peter to take the message beyond Israel. Were Gentiles any less worth saving before the revelation?
I think it's more tortured to accept that God had his whims and feels no need to explain than to accept that man is imperfect and that imperfection can stand in the way of God's designs on a temporary basis.
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The Jews lost the ability to hold the Melchizidek Priesthood for over 1,000 years because of a few bad apples out in the wilderness that had a bad smelting accident whilst Moses was off on a business trip.
They didn't receive any of the temple blessings as we currently understand them, at least in part because they didn't have the priesthood keys to administer in the ordinances thereof.