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The Father's relationship with the Son
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The Father's Relationship with the Son. Moore Theological College. 2003. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/174703.APA citation style
(2003). The Father's relationship with the Son. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/174703.Chicago citation style
The Father's Relationship with the Son. Moore Theological College. 2003. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://archives.moore.edu.au/documents/detail/174703.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- The relationship between the Father and the Son shapes one’s understanding of reconciliation and atonement. Central to the passage is the question: What is the nature of the cost of reconciliation, both to the Father and to the Son? Four points are explored. First, Galatians 3:21-4:7 shows that believers are sons, not slaves. The Christian life is characterised by freedom, and God’s purposes in the world are primarily filial rather than legal. Adoption enables us to call upon the Father in the same way the Son does, and the category of “son” is inclusive of all believers. Second, God’s relational purposes flow from who He is. The Father sending the Son expresses His very character and defines how we relate to Him. The nature of salvation is grounded in the reality of God Himself. Third, the Father accompanies and loves the Son in all that He does. Fourth, there is the cost to both Father and Son. The legal must submit to the filial when considering the costliness of salvation. It is the Son of the Father who bears the curse, yet the Father, in a sense, is with the Son in bearing it. God Himself has borne our curse in the person of Jesus, as the judge was judged in our place. At the heart of the atonement is God's filial purposes and it is how we should understand it.
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