Featured Have Believers Already Been Adopted as Children of God?

cannot be His children if not adopted though!

 

That's spiritual regeneration, not physical adoption.

 

Spiritual regeneration is not to be confounded with physical adoption.

 

That's spiritual regeneration, not physical adoption.

 

or adoption into the family of God IS spritual!

 

The problem here is that you're conceiving as adoption in generic profane (worldly) terms.
Of course we are spiritually part of God's family.
But the issue here is that Paul speaks of adoption as a future event, not a present possession, and in a technical way, defining it as the transformation of our body at the resurrection.
We must go with what the scriptures say.
Again, the problem is the argument to the contrary is something like: "well I know I'm a son of God now, and I wasn't before, so I must have been adopted"; which is basically true, but not in line with the scriptural use of the term adoption.
Once more, in every scriptural occurrence, the reference is to the body, not the spirit.

 

if you read what the Bible actually says in John 1:12, it is clear that on believing a sinner is a child of God, and this is only by God "adopting" us.

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name

 

I do not accept the plural reading, as referring to believers, as the correct one, and that the singular in the Greek, which refers to Jesus Christ, is the Original work of John.

The Virgin Conception in The Gospel of John

 

Of course! No one denied that. You're arguing alone about that one.

You just proved my point in the earlier post. This is no more than generic reasoning. John 1 nowhere mentions adoption. You just read that in.

Again, again, again, you're confounding spiritual regeneration (a present reality) with bodily adoption (a future reality).

2Ti 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 

Galatians 4:5, "to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons"

 

Here we go. Yet another Christian 7/11.

#2 in the signature.

 

see #34

 

what?

 

Right! that we might. When? When our body is redeemed at the resurrection.
Rom 8:23 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.
Rom 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Paul said we're still WAITING for the adoption. How much clearer can it get brother?

 

how is this done, apart from adoption?