Featured Have Believers Already Been Adopted as Children of God?

r-e-g-e-n-e-r-a-t-i-on, hence "born": b-o-r-n; not "adopted".

Birth and Adoption are two vastly different concepts.

 

The Greek is "ἀπολάβωμεν", which is, Verb, second Aorist, Active, Subjunctive. What does the AORIST mean to you?

 

#2 in signature. Par for the course.

 

so Galatians 4:5 is wrong?

 

No, it's talking about God having given us the Spirit of adoption as an earnest of the adoption we will experience at the resurrection.
We haven't received it yet, it's that we might receive.
Otherwise, Romans 8:25 is wrong for it says that we're still waiting to get adopted (physically, not spiritually).

 

Spiritual adoption is how we are now children of God and are among the redeemed!

 

When we are saved, born again and have the Holy Spiorit and new nature in us, are now adopted into family of God and part of the Body of Christ!

 

Paul makes a big deal about us who knew not God and outside the Covenant to now being included in and called children of God!

 

When born again, we are thus adopted in!

 

Current adoption state, not a future yet to come!

 

How can one be saved, part of the Body of Christ, and not yet been adopted in?

 

That birthing by and of God results in us now being adopted by the Father!

 

I'm beginning to suspect you don't really read the posts because you almost never engage what is said, you just repeat what you know.
All the best.

 

How can we be right now called children of God if not part of His family? So no one has ever been adopted yet, as second coming not yet happened?