Question 33 of 82
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
What is adoption?
Answer
Adoption is an act of God's free grace (), by which we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the sons of God (; ).
Read the 3 proof texts (KJV)
- 1 John 3:1
- Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
- John 1:12
- But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name:
- Romans 8:17
- And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with [him], that we may be also glorified together.