God changed Jacob's name to be no more called Jacob, but to be called Israel, (Gen 33:28). Jacob, who is called Israel, is representative of God's elect (Rom 9:11). Romans 10:1 has reference to Jacob, as being Israel, and not the nation of Israel. Saved according to Greek interpretation means "delivered". Paul is not praying that they would be delivered eternally because they are secure in their eternal deliverance. Paul is praying that they would be delivered from their lack of knowledge of the gospel. They did not understand that in the new birth Christ imputed his righteousness unto them and were going about trying to establish their righteousness by their good works. They were still babes in Christ and are living on the milk of the gospel and not on the meat of the gospel. That is the reason that Jesus instructed his Apostles to go and preach to the lost sheep (God's elect) of the house of Israel (Jacob).
A main point of Paul's letter to the Romans was that ethnic Jews were not automatically saved (eternally delivered from damnation). Much of chapter 3 addresses this. Despite their adherence to the Law, most of the Jews had not come to saving faith in Jesus Christ. Only in Christ is anyone saved, Jew or gentile.
Your position would make salvation contingent on ethnicity. It isn't, and never was. Your semantic argument makes the gospel irrelevant. Those who have heard the gospel and believed are babes in Christ; those who have heard the gospel and not believed are not saved, regardless of who their daddy was. Paul says clearly in 9:32 that Israel did not pursue righteousness by faith, which is the only way anyone ever attained it.
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