John 1:12-13

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

From Background Notes [BN] for October 12^th & 13^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Adoption, used in this sense, is more than a legal transaction. The writer, realizing that the poetry might be too ambiguous at this point, chooses a prose explanation in 1:12b-13.

He makes clear that blood lines or human decisions or patriarchal designs (1:13) are insufficient grounds for the kind of “children” the Word want to authorize by his coming into the world. The phrase “born of God” refers to a creative act of the Word, every bit as powerful and artistic as any act in Genesis 1. What the writer intends is “the new birth” or what we call “regeneration,” God’s infusing of new life by the activity of His Word.. [BN,5]

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