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On which I comment only that, if faith is what I've interpreted it to be – namely, the "obedient faith" of unreseved trust in God's love and unqualified loyalty to it – then it is, in its essence, submission to God as God. But if Niebuhr is right in assuming, as I judge him to be, that there are "things that should be changed" as well as "things that cannot be changed," then, clearly, to obey God, and thus to submit to God as God, cannot be singular, but only duaL dual. To act courageously and loyally to change the things that should be changed is no less to obey God, and so to submit to God as God, than to act serenely and trustfully to accept thethings the things that cannot be changed.5

2. Who are God's "chosen people" today? What does that term mean in today's world?

I shall answer these two questions in reverse order. So, first, what does the term "chosen people" mean in today's world?

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