Love That Will Not Let Me Go
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LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO<br />
A FRESH LOOK AT GENESIS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
Thus in this extension Adam is the Son of <strong>Go</strong>d as Luke asserts. Adam is not the only son of<br />
<strong>Go</strong>d by energy. Bible talks about sons of <strong>Go</strong>d elsewhere in the Bible.<br />
Jacob is <strong>Go</strong>d's son and firstborn: "Israel is my son, even my firstborn" Exodus 4:22.<br />
Solomon is <strong>Go</strong>d's son "He shall build an house for my name, and I will establish the throne of<br />
his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son": 2 Samuel 7:13-14.<br />
Ephraim is <strong>Go</strong>d's firstborn: "for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn" Jeremiah<br />
31:9<br />
(who is <strong>Go</strong>d's firstborn? Israel or Ephraim?).<br />
Adam is the son of <strong>Go</strong>d "Adam, which was the son of <strong>Go</strong>d" Luke 3:38.<br />
Common people (you and me) are the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d:<br />
"Ye are the children of the LORD your <strong>Go</strong>d" Deuteronomy 14:1.<br />
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of <strong>Go</strong>d, they are the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d" Romans 8:14.<br />
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d,<br />
[even]<br />
to them that believe on his name" John 1:12.<br />
"<strong>That</strong> ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d, without rebuke, in the<br />
midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the<br />
world;" Philip2:15.<br />
"Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be<br />
called the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d: ... now are we the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d" 1 John 3:1-2.<br />
"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d shouted for joy?" Job<br />
38:7.<br />
As we can see, the use of the term "son of <strong>Go</strong>d" when describing normal human beings was<br />
not at all an uncommon practice among Jesus' people.<br />
"Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, 'I said, Ye are gods?' If he called them<br />
gods, unto whom the word of <strong>Go</strong>d came, and the scripture cannot be broken..." John 10:34:<br />
In the Hebrew Bible, the phrase "sons of the Elohim" occurs in:<br />
<br />
Gen 6:2 bənê hāʼĕlōhîm (בְנֵי־הָֽאaֱהִים) the sons of Elohim.<br />
Gen 6:2 <strong>That</strong> the sons of <strong>Go</strong>d saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took<br />
them wives of all which they chose.<br />
These were beings similar to man so that they had sexual relations with humans.<br />
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of<br />
<strong>Go</strong>d came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became<br />
mighty men which were of old, men of renown.<br />
This relation produced a new genus of giant humans.<br />
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