Bello proudly and arrogantly claims '
sonship' to the president and does not fail to remind everybody everything he is doing has presidential backing.
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to
sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
Demoting the concept of
sonship to the level of aristocratic entitlement, he suggested that Jesus should never have an unsatisfied appetite.
The Father sent his Son to redeem fallen humankind; the Son fulfilled his mission and regained for us the
sonship that we had lost with the sin of our First Parents.
In Jesus, His claim to
sonship is literal or in truth that He is the Son of God.
In John Taylor's introduction (22ff), in the report's reflections on mission (28ff), and elsewhere, the perspective of women is consistently occluded; humans are referred to as "men," humanity as "manhood," and the goal for human beings is called "
sonship." This is not to mention the lack of treatment of the situation of sexual minorities, although the need to further study such questions was acknowledged (93).
Similarly, at the other end of the book, 112:3, He begets not; nor was He begotten, TSQ admits that "this verse is interpreted as denying that Jesus is the 'Son of God'," but argues that "the Christian notion of
sonship is not the same as that held by the pagan Arabs, who are criticized in other verses for ascribing offspring to God (usually daughters) as in 16:57 [...].
The purpose of man's existence dictated by this ethics is to manifest his divine
Sonship, the Verb.
"The Spirit you have received is not a spirit of slavery leading you back into a life of fear, but a Spirit of
sonship, enabling us to cry "Abba, Father!" (Rom.
Her topics include a working theory of metaphor, sketching the model: the background and conventional use of adoption, we have received the adoption to
sonship: the adoption metaphor in Galatians 4:5, we ourselves groan inwardly: the adoption metaphors in Romans 8:15 and 8:23, and to whom belongs the adoption: the adoption metaphor in Romans 9:4.
Others described this further revelation as "getting to see it in high definition rather than just black and white." Some of these previously-abstract adoption constructs included the meaning of sacrifice, purification or sanctification, the idea of
sonship and inheritance, assimilation into God's family, the legal process of adoption, unconditional love, and God's relentless pursuit of us and our affection.