Adam’s own withdrawal reverberated in the punishment for sin imposed upon him and his children: the man who hid from God was now banished from the garden where God met and walked with him.
According to the Bible, every human being is conceived fatherless. Adam was created as the “son of God” (Lk. 3:38), but when he chose to disobey, he essentially alienated him from his Father. When God came looking for him, Adam hid (Gen. 3:8). Adam’s own withdrawal reverberated in the punishment for sin imposed upon him and his children: the man who hid from God was now banished from the garden where God met and walked with him.
The apostle Paul even quoted the pagan poet Aratus’s description of all people as God’s offspring.
28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
29 Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals (Acts 17:28–29, emphasis added)
According to the verse above, every human being knows something of the fatherhood of God simply by being created, and from his providential care. Nonetheless, the same apostle tells the Ephesians that they were by nature not children of God but “children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” (Eph. 2:3). Every human individual is conceived without a divine Father. Apart from the grace of God every human being after Adam, except Jesus himself, is by nature in a state of fatherlessness. If we want to somehow make sense of the problems in this world, this spiritual kind of fatherlessness is inestimably more significant than even the absence of a human father. Having said that, since the Fall of Man, human history was not exactly a picture of universal health and happiness.
If we want to somehow make sense of the problems in this world, this spiritual kind of fatherlessness is inestimably more significant than even the absence of a human father.
According to Scottish theologian Sinclair Ferguson, sonship is the
“apex of creation and the goal of redemption.” Jesus alone is the eternal Son of the Father, but by being joined to him, we come to share his status of sonship. He has a natural sonship, but ours is derived and dependent on him — his life, death on the cross, and resurrection. God is our Father because first, Jesus is the Father of the Son.
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