What are Gentiles more correctly called instead of God's people?
Gentiles are not called God's people in the same intimate sense as Israel; rather, they are more correctly referred to as His born ones. This distinction arises because God is calling out a people for His name from among the Gentiles, as explained in Acts.
Les explains that scripturally Gentiles certainly do not come into that intimate relationship that God had with Israel when He called them My people. When Israel fell away in obstinacy and unbelief, God said to Moses, Thy people. It will not be until Israel comes back in complete belief, at the return of Christ, that they will once again be called God's people, or My people. But other than the portion in Acts where God says He will call out a people for His name, Gentiles are more correctly referred to as His born ones.
Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
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What does the Bible call Gentile believers if not 'My people'?
Apart from the Acts passage where God says He is calling out a people for His name, Gentile believers are more correctly referred to as His 'born ones' rather than as 'My people.'