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A person has to be adopted , or born from above to be a child of God.

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
 
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From A Baptist Catechism with Commentary, by W.R.Downing;
The English term “adoption” derives from the Latin adoptio (from ad,“to” and opto, “choose”). The term occurs five times in Scripture, all in theNew Testament, and all in the writings of Paul: Rom. 8:15, 23; 9:4; Gal. 4:5;
Eph. 1:5. The Gk. term is huiothesia, from huios, “son,” and thesis, “a placing,” and literally means “to place as a son,” a process and ceremony upon one’s majority, which referred to natural sons within the family as well
as to adopted sons from outside the family. One must take care not to read into the Scriptures either the bare Latin etymology, the legal, or the modernidea of adopting someone into the family as a child. The biblical terminology
and its use designate this, but also much more.
Adoption, then, is a distinct, forensic, separate and gracious act of God which brings us into that filial relationship and intimacy as his beloved sons and children. It is through adoption that we receive the Holy Spirit and the
status of sonship (Rom. 8:14–17; Gal. 4:4–7).
 
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Although all men are the children [“offspring’] of God in a creational sense, as bearing the Divine image (Gen. 1:26; Acts 17:28; Eph. 3:14–15; Jas. 3:9),
this does not imply the “universal Fatherhood of God” and the“universal brotherhood of all men.” Such would deny the Fall, its consequences, the reality of sin and the necessity of redemption.

Third, a national sonship, which designated Israel under the Old Covenant (Ex. 4:22–23; Rom. 9:4, 6–8).

Fourth, a redemptive filial relation or sonship. This relationship is grounded in the sovereign love of God the Father (Eph. 1:3–5),through the mediatorial work of the Son (Gal. 4:4–6; Eph. 1:5–7), and evidenced by the ministry and witness of the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5; 8:14–17;Gal. 4:4–6). It is inseparable from regeneration and justification, and yet
redemptively unique. It is this last sonship to which the biblical doctrine of adoption refers.
 
Free said:
Joh 1:12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Joh 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. (ESV)
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Many people have been deceived into thinking everyone is a child of God.
To become a child of God, one needs to believe the gospel and be baptized into Christ.
The damage these false teachers have done is enormous.
 
LeviR said:
Many people have been deceived into thinking everyone is a child of God.
To become a child of God, one needs to believe the gospel and be baptized into Christ.
The damage these false teachers have done is enormous.
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John also says "to those who believed in his name," which is to believe and put trust in all that is revealed about his character and nature, about who he is.
 
Free said:
John also says "to those who believed in his name," which is to believe and put trust in all that is revealed about his character and nature, about who he is.
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Yes, a topic of much confusion and controversy since the first century.
 
Iconoclast said:
A person has to be adopted , or born from above to be a child of God.

4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
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I agree.
Before being God's children, men are sons of Adam.
 
Iconoclast said:
God has elected a multitude of sinners before the world was. In time God draws them to salvation
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Not true as God never predestined the person who would or not be saved. What God predestined before the foundation of the world was His plan through Christ Jesus that all who will by faith believe in Him will have eternal life with Him.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
 
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Not true as God never predestined the person who would or not be saved. What God predestined before the foundation of the world was His plan through Christ Jesus that all who will by faith believe in Him will have eternal life with Him.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

Rom 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Rom 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Rom 3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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Romans 8:29-30 is clear that it is the people.....WHOM
Not a plan....a people..Whom He did foreknow.
Not a plan.....ie,WHAT He did foreknow.
 
Hopeful 2 said:
In a sense, He did, through Mary.
But God was His Father, and not Adam, like the rest of mankind.
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The genealogy of Jesus appears to be the genealogy of a human person.
As would be the case of the genealogy of any other human person.
For example, it is said that Abraham is his father. Obviously not directly but indirectly.
 
LeviR said:
The genealogy of Jesus appears to be the genealogy of a human person.
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Two genealogies are offered in the NT: one for Mary and the other for Joseph.
But ultimately, Jesus was born of God.
LeviR said:
As would be the case of the genealogy of any other human person.
For example, it is said that Abraham is his father. Obviously not directly but indirectly.
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Agreed, through Mary's side of the family.
 
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