Israel
Israel names the historical people, covenantal tradition, and descendants associated with the biblical Israelite and Jewish traditions.
The community of Christian believers is not identical with Israel and does not replace Israel. Acceptance of the gospel does not erase, absorb, supersede, or inherit the identity of the Jewish people as though one people were dissolved into another.
The canon is therefore not interpreted through replacement theology, in which a later religious community claims to become the sole or complete continuation of Israel while rendering Israel itself spiritually obsolete.
Gentiles who follow God join themselves to a path of faith and devotion without becoming Israel in an ethnic, historical, or covenantal sense. Spiritual fellowship does not erase distinction, history, or peoplehood.
Questions concerning God, Israel, covenant, and history remain matters of humility rather than triumphal possession.