SONS OF GOD, Chapter 5 of Holy Priesthood Volume 2

  SONS OF GOD, Chapter 5 of Holy Priesthood Volume 2 http://ogdenkraut.com/?page_id=30 Pages 42-49 We have power to become the sons of God, to be adopted into the family of the Lord Jesus Christ, to have him as our Father, to be one with him as he is one with his Father. The scriptures mention both the “sons of God” and “the sons of men,” and apparently there is a difference, but the distinction is sometimes not very clear. By a careful examination of various scriptures, this can be clarified. For example, Paul the Apostle said there was a difference between a father of the flesh and the Father of the spirits: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth (corrects), and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits, and live? (Heb. 12:6-9) Jesus also clarified this subject: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6) And to Nicodemus, He said we must be born “again”. This meant we must do something or have something in order to deserve that title of a “son of God.”