1 Peter 2:10 ‘for you once were not. people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.'

‘for you once were not. people' -Prior to their conversion, these people had not belonged to God. The idea of predestination completely dies in this verse. How could people predestined from eternity for salvation have never been the people of God? Outside of Christ, one doesn't belong to God (Ephesians 2:11). This statement also suggests many Christians from. Gentile background. For the Jews had been the people of God. No matter who you are in the eyes of the world, if you don't belong to God, then you are. spiritual nobody.

‘but now are the people of God' -Note the singular. The people of God is composed of all Christians. We don't find ‘peoples of God'. Not just ‘a' people of God, but ‘THE' people of God.

‘you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy' -A quotation from Hosea 2:23. which is applied to the Gentiles in Romans 9:25-26... There is no mercy outside of. relationship with Jesus Christ. Until one comes into contact with the blood of Jesus, one is far off (Ephesians 2:13). 2. This mercy is available to all who choose to obey Christ (Revelation 21:17). 3. If people in remote Turkey needed to be born again to be saved (1 Peter 1:23), then people in any part of the world need to obey Jesus to receive the same salvation. 4. Mercy isn't dispensed in an automatic or unconditional manner (Titus 2:11). It could not be made any plainer that the Church has replaced physical Israel as THE people of God. And that from now on until the end of time, mercy will only be dispensed to the person who believes on Jesus as the Son of God. This applies to every Jew and every Gentile (Romans 11:22).

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