Foreknew = knew me ahead of time
God had to know me first before he predestinated me. God doesn’t predestinate a man before having prior knowledge of the man.
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God. 1 Peter 1:2
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Foreknew = knew me ahead of time
God had to know me first before he predestinated me. God doesn’t predestinate a man before having prior knowledge of the man.
Galatians 4:4But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. 6Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." 7So you are no longer a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
You using man made definitions. Becoming a son and being adopted is not the same thing in Scripture.
Manifestation in Romans 8 is referring to the revealing of something that is already true. Galatians 4:4 speaks of sonship through adoption, and the very next verse says that THAT specific sonship has already been fulfilled in those who believe.
For starters...this cannot be at some point before one trusted in Christ.
Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
I suppose you could become a daughter in adoption too.
Nope, only sons get the inheritance.
υἱοθεσία literally means to place as a son. Uio- son, thesia- a form of tithimi, which means to set or to place.
Oh no, you didn't!!!!good point. You have to already be a child to have an inheritance.
According to this verse, what does scripture define as the adoption?
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Verse 16 is ALSO speaking of sonship in the CONTEXT OF ADOPTION, just like the Galatians passage. We have received the SPIRIT OF ADOPTION whereby we cry Abba Father and whereby He bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. Not about the new birth, this context is about the adoption. Because we are adopted the moment we believe, and then we are revealed to be Sons of God and receive our inheritance at the resurrection.