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I am a Child of God - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "He became what we are so we could become what He is" - referring to our relationship to the Father through and in the Son
- - - - Jewish
        
        Israel as children of God
      - Roman
        
        Typically practiced by the wealthy, adopting an adult male to become their heir.
        
        Adoptee gained a new family (total switch of allegiance and obligation), a new inheritance, and a new beginning (old debts cancelled)
        
        Classic example Julius Caesar adopting Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
        
        Adopter was able to choose a "worthy" heir, have someone to carry on family legacy and take care of them in their old age.
- - - - "He gave the right" - God's action
      - "become children" - similar to adoption in Rom. 8 and Gal. 4
      - "not of natural descent" - would this be countering the idea that Jews were naturally born as God's children?
      - Context: These children are connected to the "one and only Son," who alone is unique as the Begotten Son of God
    - - Israel as children of God
      - Exod. 4:22-23; Jer. 31:9; Hos. 1:10, 11:1; Deut. 14:1; Isa. 43:6;
      - Israel as the original receivers of God's promises
  - - - Galatians 3:26-29 - "26 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise."