...The executive director of Jews for Jesus says American Catholic bishops were not scripturally accurate when they said that Jews already dwell in a "saving covenant" with God -- and in their view, do not need to be converted to Christianity. The Abrahamic covenant cited by the bishops (Genesis, Chapters 12 and 17) is not a salvation covenant but a covenant of land and descendents. David Brickner of Jews for Jesus says there are different covenants from the Hebrew scriptures. He says the Abrahamic covenant is an unconditional covenant -- once entered in to, it is not abrogated, which is why it is correct to believe that the Jews are God's chosen people. Brickner explains the Abrahamic covenant was also a covenant for service, but not a covenant of salvation. He says each individual Jewish person had to come, and in faith, "believe even as Abraham believed, and God accounted unto him, as righteousness." And Brickner says one must not be confused with God's land covenant which give the Jews the right to dwell.