First and foremost are the theological issues: What kind of God does Christianity teach and what kind of God do we believe in? Is God a tribal, territorially- based God, partial to the tribe of the Hebrews and interested in granting them a particular piece of land in Palestine to be their eternal birthright regardless of the rights of its indigenous inhabitants?? Is God the Lord of Hosts, glorying in the military exploits of his people, and wrathful and vengeful towards their enemies, assuring them

of military victory (regardless of their own spiritual state of godliness or lack thereof )? Or is God the sacrificial God who loves the whole world, and who, as revealed to us in Christ, transcends racial and national boundaries, and opens his arms and offers salvation to Jew and gentile alike, inviting into his universal kingdom all those who believe in him, granting them the power

to be children of God, and inheritors of the promises??..

http://www.sabeel.org/documents/cs32.pdf