It was not better just because I was adopted by family! I was still lied too, still had my identity and truth withheld from me, still denied access to my own mother, father, and siblings. I was not told who my parents were until I was 13, how is that better!
Thank you, AAAFC, for making me feel like an outsider, even amongst my own people, a place I normally feel at home at. I just want to cry right now.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Family adoption!
Posted by Renee at 10:51 PM
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Just came on board here on AAAFC recently. Saw the other comments. Please, I don't consider you an outsider. What you shared helped me learned something.
Thank you Jarrett. I was just so upset when I was reading the comments. I think what made it worse is that they probably didn't realize how hurtful it could be until I commented. I've struggled all my life to understand how my own family, my actual relatives, could withhold the truth from me. It makes me feel even more distrustful of others at times.
Oh, gosh....Im sorry. I certainly don't consider you to be an outsider. You were still lied to, by your family (even worse) and you lost a part of you. Im sorry.
I havent been on the board much today. Ill have to check it out.
Hey, you remember how you were talking about your pastor talking about being "adopted into God's family" and it bothered you? I actually found a scriptural basis for it, of sorts. Ephesians 1:4-5 "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—" And Galatians 4:4-7, which was the lesson from Saturday, was on about the same thing, and also Romans 8. But all three are from Saint Paul and refer to something specific under Roman Law, which makes sense since he was a Roman citizen. No one else seems to talk about being adopted by God, least of all Jesus. So I think your pastor is misusing the concept. I don't know if it's all that interesting to you still, but I totally thought of you when the lesson was read.
All the best for the new year!
Oh, also, the actual phrase Saint Paul uses is "adopted into sonship", not "adopted into God's family".
Thank you mongoose! I had been trying to find a reference to it, but I'm a bit of a slacker and hadn't gotten around to it.
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