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Jesus the Eternal Son: Answering Adoptionist Christology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Adoptionism—the idea that Jesus is portrayed in the Bible as a human figure who was adopted as God’s son at his baptism or resurrection—has been commonly accepted in much recent scholarship as the earliest explanation of Jesus’s divine status. In this book Michael Bird draws that view into question with a thorough examination of pre-Pauline materials, the Gospel of Mark, and patristic sources. ...

through apotheosis or deification, but there is one big difference. Upon death the emperor became a divus (deified one), whereas it was the emperor’s designated heir left on earth who was then called divi filius (“son of the divine one”). We know of no one from antiquity who became a Son of God by resurrection.32 A more likely scenario is that while the resurrection did not mark the beginning of Jesus’s divine sonship, it instead signified a change in the ages with a consequent change in the mode
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