I just can’t square that with Acts 15 and Galatians. There has to be a way for gentiles to not become Israelites or the whole thing falls apart.
All of Ephesians 2, but salient quote is: 8For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God;
9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
11Therefore remember that
formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “Uncircumcision” by the so-called “Circumcision,”
which is performed in the flesh by human hands—
12
remember that
you were at that time separate from Christ,
excluded from the commonwealth of Israel, and
strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13
But now in Christ Jesus you who
formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
This is simple stuff! You cease to be a Gentile when you are joined to Messiah... but now, regardless of your origins, you are part of the His People. You are Israelite!
We see this in the Old Testament too, there’s no indication that David’s ally in Lebanon became an Israelite and started keeping Torah.
Numbers 15:
14‘If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he
wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD,
just as you do so he shall do.
15‘
As for the assembly,
there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.
16‘There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.’”
Zec, your idea of different standards
is patently false.