How Many Sons Of God Are There?
You mentioned that ‘Like Jesus, Adam is called the son of God (Luke 3:38)’. I know you are not saying that Adam is God but why can Adam even be called the son of God?
Q. You mentioned that ‘Like Jesus, Adam is called the son of God (Luke 3:38)’. I know you are not saying that Adam is God but why can Adam even be called the son of God? Adam was a created being and John 3:16 says that God gave his one and only son. Jesus is not a created being but God himself. If Adam can be called the son of God and Jesus IS the son of God then what exactly does the title son of God mean when given to Adam and what does it mean when given to Jesus? Isn’t Jesus the same as the Father and the Holy Spirit? Aren’t all three one in the same just in different forms? This is what I believe scripture supports, but I do wonder why Jesus is referred to as Son of God. He wasn’t born by God, so what does this title mean?
A. In the Greek language John 3:16 calls Jesus God’s only begotten son, meaning there’s no other like Him. He was born of a woman without the aid of a man, the only one of His kind. For Jesus, being the Son of God is more of a title than a biological fact, since Jesus is God in human form.
Adam was a direct creation of God and therefore had no father or mother in the biological sense. Luke called Adam the son of God because God was responsible for bringing him into the world, just as your father was responsible for bringing you into the world.
When Paul called Jesus the last Adam, he was referring to Him in the human sense as appearing on Earth in human form after Adam did. Paul was educated as a rabbi. He was using a rabbinical argument to justify the redemptive work of Jesus with Leviticus 25 as his source. God’s law as stated there requires that if a man falls into debt or loses his property, a next of kin must redeem what he’s lost. Therefore Jesus had to be human and Adam’s next of kin to redeem us and planet Earth.
Following the letter of the Law the both Adam and Jesus can claim God as their direct father, thereby qualifying Jesus as Adam’s Kinsman Redeemer.
