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CHAPTER 1: SONS OF GOD (part 3)
By adoption, then, God gives us a new status, a new relationship to Himself, but the mystery of our sonship does not end there. S. Paul speaks in terms of a legal process, something which is primarily a matter of status and not of being; S. John takes us further into the heart of the matter.
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