According to scripture, believers are adopted as God’s children.
Scripture is full of
synonymy. Adopted, born of the Spirit, born from above, born from Jerusalem above, born of God, begotten by God - all synonymous, meaning the same thing.
26 But
Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the
mother of us all.
3 Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be
born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;`
6 that which hath been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which hath been
born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 `Thou mayest not wonder that I said to thee, It behoveth you to be
born from above;
8 the Spirit where he willeth doth blow, and his voice thou dost hear, but thou hast not known whence he cometh, and whither he goeth; thus is every one who hath been
born of the Spirit.` Jn 3
13 who were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God. Jn 1
who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but --
of God were begotten. Jn 1:13 YLT
if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness,
of him hath been begotten. 1 Jn 2:29 YLT
9 every one who hath been
begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because
of God he hath been begotten. 1 Jn 3:9 YLT
7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving,
of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God 1 Jn 4:7 YLT
1 Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ,
of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is
begotten of Him
4 because every one who is
begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world -- our faith
18 We have known that every one who hath been
begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was
begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him 1 Jn 5
The Serpent's seed has been persecuting the Woman's seed since the day Cain killed Abel.
@taisto nails it
here:
"The Israel of God. The elect lady of
2 John 1.
The woman is the children of the Promise from Adam and Eve to the end of the age. From the very beginning Satan has tried to stop the Lamb of God from Redeeming humans and unshackling sinners from the chains in which Satan has bound them. Satan hates the Church because they remind him that he has lost."
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