[ampaterry]

This is one of those topics that COULD lead to an argument.
I believe we are above that here.

MY BELIEF on this is:
God made a covenant with the Jews.
He never said he was renigging on that covenant.
They were His chosen people, and still are.

God made a covenant with the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.
With this covenant, we became ingrafted into the jewish root, and are therefore ALSO His chosen people.

Christ said:
John 10:16 (KJV);
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

MY BELIEF is that he could have come to the Americas, other places around the world, and made additional covenants with them as well.

And that is just the way I see it; I do not push that opinion, and I will not get heated about it; it just makes the most sense to me.