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1 | Adoption - relationship or position? | NT general Archive 1 | kalos | 7460 | ||
As the word is used in the NT, is "adoption" primarily a word of relationship or of position? | ||||||
2 | Adoption - relationship or position? | NT general Archive 1 | Makarios | 7589 | ||
Both relationship and position! :) Adoption, as used in Romans 8:15, 2 Corinthians 6:18, and Galatians 4:3-7, Adoption primarily is a reference to the reality that God has made us his children, and we can come before Him without fear or hesitation as our beloved Father. It includes the confidence that we are truly sons of God. Believers will know the full richness of what it means to be children of God. "Adoption" is the act of bringing someone who is the offspring of another into one's own family. Since unregenerate people are by nature children of the devil, the only way they can become God's children is by spiritual adoption. (see also Eph. 1:5). So we have changed our 'position' from being 'children of the devil' to a child of God, and our 'relationship' to God has changed since we now live and follow in accordance with His will. Sources: MacArthur NKJV Study Bible, Ryrie Study Bible NASB.. | ||||||
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