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#177 – Brothers and Sisters: More Than A Metaphor

Knowing Faith

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The Family of God in the New Testament

The Israelites would have understood each other in a broad sense to all be family. And so when Jesus articulates a view of those who do the will of the Father as family in many ways or maybe in every way he is redeeming what was lost in Eden. This terminology had never been used before. When we think about interacting with Socrates and Plato and Aristotle, that kind of love wasn't meant to exist only among family but now exists not biologically but spiritually through the blood of Christ.

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