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Originally Posted by Evangelical
If we are organically sons and daughters of God, why do we need to think of ourselves as being adopted?
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The term is not that we were "adopted" as it is understood today, but rather
4but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. (Gal 4:4-5)
The purpose of redemption was that we might receive the adoption of sons.
This is what Paul referred to in Ephesians:
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: 5having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6to the praise of the glory of his grace, (Ephesians 1:3-6)
The adoption of sons is not a reference to the "organic union" but rather to the authority of having a position in God's kingdom to exercise His authority.
22 For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son; 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him… 27 and he gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man
Hebrews explains it best:
hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds; Heb 1:2
That was when Jesus received the "adoption of sonship" when He was appointed heir of all things.