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Taking as the determinative concept Jesus’ favorite name for God, Father, John interprets the ideal relationship of men to God as that of spiritual children, having the Life – eternal – from the Father. According to John this life of sonship to God, having a definite beginning other than the physical birth, and being manifested in very definite moral and spiritual qualities, defines the very...

the sons of God in Gal 3:26–27, is still an ethical demand in Rom 13:14. It is the Holy Spirit leading us, and our spirit being docile to it through faith, that together constitute the filial spirit and filial life. Though in Rom 8 the word πίστις does not occur, for Paul, Holy Spirit and Faith are inseparable. If in Gal 3:23 faith liberated us from law, in Gal 5:18 it is the Spirit that liberated us from the law. If in Gal 3:26 we are sons of God through faith, in Rom 8:14 it is through the Spirit
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