The Bible speaks of adoption in two ways: a household taking in a child not born to it, and God taking people as his sons and daughters. Pharaoh’s daughter raised Moses as her son (Exodus 2:10), and Mordecai took his orphaned cousin Esther as his own daughter (Esther 2:7). The word adoption itself belongs to Paul. The Greek huiothesia, adoption as sons, occurs five times in the New Testament: Romans 8:15, 8:23 and 9:4, Galatians 4:5 and Ephesians 1:5. Paul…
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