on an unmediated, innately spiritual connection between a person and God. The relation presupposes an infinite abyss between the creator and the created. Ὑιοθεσία is a strange, new event, completely distinct from everything in our familiar way of life. It means that the estranged from God become children of God by adoption.118 Ὑιοθεσία is creation out of nothing. Becoming God’s children occurs by divine appointment, according to divine will, through an event that takes place διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. There