That is what I am saying. A case in point would be the Israelites who were God's chosen people but when thy backslid God transferred his grace to the Gentiles.
But are you not talking about nations here?
I personally do not believe that God transferred his grace to the gentiles.
From the beginning of time God had a plan of redemption that included the gentiles and not a transference to the gentiles.
The promise given to Abraham.
Even before the death and resurrection of Jesus in the old testament those who were not Israelites were to be accepted, loved and cared for and treated accordingly to grace of God. It was offered and not transferred.
Deuteronomy 10:19
19 Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:34
34 The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Ezekiel 47:22-23
22 It shall be that you will divide it by lot as an inheritance for yourselves, and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they shall have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God.
Zechariah 7:9-10
9 “Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Execute true justice,
Show mercy and compassion
Everyone to his brother.
10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
The alien or the poor.
Let none of you plan evil in his heart
Against his brother.’
Given your post above if the gentiles backslid then God would transfer it.
But to whom?
The Bhuddists?
After all the religions of the times from the OT to the NT worshipped false Gods, aka gentiles, even Israel worshipped false gods.
The issue for me is "Transfer"
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