>>19974237With Abraham, the people were being conditioned to the covenant of Faith. In the rest of the Old Testament, the people of God were being conditioned to the covenant of Hope. After Jesus came, the covenant got upgraded to Love. Love is the first virtue of the soul, before that they didn't really learn about souls that much and it's first with Jesus that this started.
Souls are a big subject in the New Testament and we are being told that we are circumcised if we believe. And we are told in Hosea that Zion was made spiritually barren by God, so the children are no longer Israelites.
This is not just we wuz tier info it just jumps into your face if you read both of the Scripture books.