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Line 1: {{short description|Religious term}} {{Multiple issues| {{For|the historical term about various groups of people who have considered themselves to be chosen people by a deity for a purpose|Chosen people}}▼ {{Essay|date=January 2024}} {{Global|date=January 2024}} {{Citations needed|date=January 2024}} }} ▲{{For|the historical term about various groups of people who have considered themselves to be chosen people by a deity for a purpose|Chosen people|Indian films|Devudu Chesina Manushulu (disambiguation)}} '''''People of God''''' ({{lang-he|עם האלהים}}) is a term used in the [[Hebrew Bible]] to refer to the [[Israelites]] and used in [[Christianity]] to refer to [[Christians]]. Line 10 ⟶ 15: ===New Testament=== In the [[New Testament]], the expression "people of God" is found in {{bibleverse||Hebrews|4:9|ESV}} and {{bibleverse-nb||Hebrews|11:25|ESV}} {{bibleref2|Romans|9:25-26|ESV}}, also quotes/refers to {{bibleref2|Hosea|1:10|ESV}} and {{bibleref2|Hosea|2:23|ESV}}. {{quote|As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." "And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, 'You ''are'' not My people,' There they shall be called sons of the living God."}} ==Christianity== Continued use of the expression "people of God" (in [[Latin]], ''populus Dei'') in the writings of the [[Church Fathers]] are found in [[Augustine]]'s ''[[De civitate Dei]]''<ref>[ In [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]], Latin ''populus Dei'' became ''pobal Dé'' and has continued for centuries to be an expression in everyday use for the [[Christian Church|Church]] in a [[parish]], a [[diocese]] or the world.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |title=Parish as ''Pobal Dé'' |access-date=11 May 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117024937/http://www.corkandross.org/documents/DPS_01.pdf |archive-date=17 November 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>A poem in an eighteenth-century [http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html manuscript] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010120100/http://www.isos.dias.ie/resources/image.html |date=10 October 2006 }} begins with ''Is fairsing dealbh pobal Dé'' ("Extensive is the aspect of the people of God").</ref> ===Catholic Church=== Line 38 ⟶ 43: ====Catechism==== The [[Catechism of the Catholic Church]] devotes a section to describing the church with this phrase,<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P28.HTM Catechism of the Catholic Church, ==See also== | |||