As you might know, my wife and I are quite passionate about adoption. According to this video clip, our passion for it is not even close to how God feels about it. I thought this was powerful.
April 10, 2008
Adoption Is More Powerful Than the Universe
Posted by Tim under Christianity, Evangelical, Evangelicalism, Family, God, Orphanage, Orphans | Tags: Adopt, Adoption |[4] Comments
April 10, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Have you read “Children of the Living God” by Sinclair Ferguson? It is the best book I have ever read on adoption. I have it listed on my “Great Books” page if you want to check it out here is the link:
http://anuncommongrace.wordpress.com/great-books/
Let me know what you think.
Blessings,
Darian
April 10, 2008 at 3:10 pm
The English word “adoption” has multiple meanings: the Biblical passage cited doesn’t mean adoption in the modern American sense of paying fees to an agency, legally changing a child’s name and artificially grafting them onto a different family tree.
One can adopt a new way of looking at things. One can adopt a new vision. That is the form of “adoption” meant in that passage.
Adoption as it is practiced in the US is a new phenomenon in the world. It was not allowed in the Middle East when the stories of the Bible took place. Still isn’t.
April 11, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Yeah, this video always cracks me up.
April 18, 2008 at 10:31 am
Adoption as it is practiced in the US is a new phenomenon in the world. It was not allowed in the Middle East when the stories of the Bible took place. Still isn’t.
I’m certainly not naive enough to believe that the legal system of adoption in place in the US in the present day is what existed 2000 years ago. But I think you are stretching the definition to assert that God was merely adopting a new perspective on us. Particularly when this passage (and others) says we are “adopted as sons”.
The practice of accepting non-natural born children into a family is an ancient practice.