sonship
Noun
Meaning
The state of being a son, or of bearing the relation of a son; filiation.
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Instead, he conceives of sonship to God as "mediated and effected by means of the mystical union with Christ."sfn He summarizes Pauline mysticism as "being in Christ" rather than "being in God."
By grace, through faith, a Christian shares in Jesus' death and in his victory over death, gaining as a free gift a new, justified status of sonship.
The elect are therefore predestined to sonship through adoption, glorification, and eternal life.