Gal. 4:5 Adoption (also Eph. 1:5)

Mark Wilson emory2002 at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 25 23:24:40 EDT 2000



My Vine's Expository Dictionary says of this word hUIOQESIA that God does 
"not adopt believers as children; they are begotten as such by His Holy 
Spirit through faith. Adoption is not a putting into the family by spiritual 
birth, but a putting into the position of sons."

Did they use this word differently in the time of Paul than we do today?

I am not exactly sure what Vine's means. I assumed we were "adopted" by God 
since we were not originally part of His family. But this statement by Vine 
seems to confuse me. Looks like we were "spiritually born" into the family, 
and this "adoption" is a subsequent event to our being "born again."

Thank you,

Mark Wilson

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