ANSWER: No! Please refer to Romans 2:28-29; Romans 9:6-9; and Galatians 3:28-29. These passages, along with Galatians 6:16, teach that the church has become the Israel of God. Those men and women (Christians) who make up the house of God are they who are God’s chosen people, in the sense that you use it (I Peter 2:5-9. See also Ephesians 1:3-4).