Good thing the Holy Spirit is God:
Romans 8:14 For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Verse 14 is one of those verses that is there "
for" a reason. It directly contradicts your idea that only angels are called "sons of God", which is why you always are careful to qualify your ruling that it's "in the OT" where Sons of God always equals angels. What possible difference does that make? Since God says all that are led by His Spirit do you think He forgot to mention this qualifier of yours?
Plus He's already called humans "sons" in the OT as well.
A son of God
is a being that is either created by God ie: Adam who was created by God Himself from the dust.
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God. Luke 3:38
The offspring of Adam are called
sons of men or
daughters of men.
"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor
a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good.
Numbers 23:19
and again -
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah And their neighbors," says the Lord, "So no one shall reside there, Nor
son of man dwell in it. Jeremiah 50:40
and again -
And He said to me, "
Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you."
Ezekiel 2:1
Agreed, but brother, God can produce a human "son of God" in the OT just as easily as He can produce a son the NT. Which is why Paul is accurate to say all that are led by the Spirit are called sons of God and Jesus is accurate to teach us to pray to The Father and is why we call each other brothers and sisters.
Romans 8:12-13 So then, brothers, we are obligated not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
So then, brothers, we are obligated not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh [like choosing a non-Godly woman who is merely a "daughter of man" we happen to find physically attractive as a wife, see Gen 6:.
].
For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die [not sure why Paul doesn't say you are going to be in a process of torture forever in this verse, but whatever],
but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:5 For those who are living according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the Spirit are intent on the things of the Spirit.
This is no accident that Paul is contrasting those "living according to the Spirit" (i.e. a son of god) with those "living according to the flesh" and Moses is contrasting attractive "daughters of man" with sinful desires of "sons of God" (who by the way receive a punishment for their sins of living for only 120 years). I thought angels could not die? I guess these did after 120 years, huh? Or maybe they were not angels but rather men. Sinful men.
Genesis 6:1-3 And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. And Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
Then comes the flood.
Romans 8:8 and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. ... For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die,
Then comes the Final Judgment.
We as believers in Jesus Christ are "born of God'.
Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ
is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him.
1 John 5:1
In the Old Testament Jesus Christ had not been born, nor Crucified nor risen from the dead, so no one could be "born of God" yet.
If there was some
"other way" for a son of man to be born of God then there wouldn't have been any need for Jesus to go what He went through so that we could believe on Him and be saved.
The blood of bulls and goats can never take away sins -
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.
Hebrews 10:4
- We will not be called sons of God until the resurrection.
35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage; 36
nor can they die anymore, for
they are equal to the angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.
Luke 20:35-36
and again -
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth f
or the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they,
but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit,
the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:19-23
- At the present we have the power to become sons of God.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave
he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born , not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- The salvation of your soul is the end of your faith.
9 Receiving
the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:9
A son of God can not be produced by a man and a women through natural child birth.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:6
JLB
