Yet to all who received 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.
John 1:12-13
Not a natural descent
Nor of human decision
Or a husband's will...
I think John's trying to get the point across here. This family God is growing is his doing. We have no right to determine how God goes about it. And we cannot determine who is and who is not a part of it. This family is not a blood family. We cannot pass it on. It is a family of individual members. And it is a family with individual rights...yes rights...if you receive, if you believe, God gives you the RIGHT to become a child of God.
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