Adoption

Well I was just typing out an answer to what I thought was a test question.....Define and discuss Adoption. Well when I actually took another look at the test to copy and paste it after putting it together, I was a little upset to see that "adoption" wasn't one of the "....tion" words to define and discuss. So therefore I am posting it here for your consideration and awe of what God has done for us.

The context is Soteriology, the doctrine of Salvation. Adoption is the term. A summary of the term and it's impact on God's relationship with us follows. What an amazing aspect of this relationship to meditate on.

Adoption
Adoption is one of the most fun blessings that we as Christian's experience because it concerns our relationship with God on the deeper level of family rather than just friend, associate, or rank like that of teams or military organizations. Before the moment of salvation the unbeliever is a member of Satan's family. But upon the moment that one believes in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, that new believer's family membership is instantly transferred from the Devil and the world to that of the family of God. The believer is not only accepted as a member of the family but is given all the privileges of being an adult son of the living Father God. The believer is also granted all the promises that God has made and has and will keep. Arguably one of the greatest of these privileges, after forgiveness of sins, is that the believer, as a son of God, will spend eternity with God in heaven and on the new earth rather than in torment.

For more on this incredible relationship, check out THE BIBLE, and or Dr. Barackman's Practical Christian Theology.