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Ty Gibson. The sonship of Christ
“Daughters of Eve, after all you’ve been through, I want you to know you were in my thoughts every sentence along the way.” preface. KIDS KNOW STUFF
“The Son of God cannot be God in the same eternal sense that the Father is God, we reason, or else He would not be called the Son.” Chapter One. TWO IDENTITIES
“Most Christians have been taught to handle Scripture as a doctrinal textbook, with the assumption that it basically operates like an encyclopedia from which to compose a collection of theological propositions.” Chapter Two. READING SCRIPTURE ON ITS OWN TERMS
“When we use a prooftext method that is not careful to notice context, we have no choice but to fill in the gaps with speculations that are not inherent to the text. In other words, we have to make stuff up.” Chapter Three. A PROPHECY OF PROGENY
“When we read the Bible as an unfolding narrative—as the big story it actually is—with key characters played out in an overarching, intentional plot line, the meaning of the Sonship of Christ becomes unmistakably evident.” Chapter Four. ISRAEL, MY SON
“There’s Adam, and there’s Jesus. And these two figures constitute the premise of the entire biblical story.” Chapter Five. DAVID, MY SON
“The God who made humanity intends to save humanity from the inside, from within our very own genetic realm, from the strategic position of a Son of God who will be born within the Adamic lineage.” Chapter six. SOLOMON, MY SON
“Human history is fundamentally characterized by covenant breaking. We are a race defined by relational dysfunction and disintegration, a race of victims and victimizers, a race of non-lovers.” Chapter Seven. COVENANT IDENTITY
“Covenant, in a nutshell, is omnidirectional love: love between God and humans, love between humans and humans, and love between humans and the creation over which they have charge.” Chapter Eight. THE GRAND REENACTMENT
“The moment the big picture of the Bible dawns on us and we are theologically obedient to its storyline, we realize something startlingly simple that has been right under our noses all along.” Chapter Nine. MATTHEW’S GOSPEL—SON OF ABRAHAM
“The Fall of Adam was the point of legal transfer of earth into Satan’s control in Christ we have a new Adam, a new “Son of God,” who has now arrived on the scene to reverse the effects of the Fall and reclaim dominion over the earth.” Chapter Ten. LUKE’S GOSPEL—SON OF ADAM
“John insists that love is the defining characteristic of the Sonship of Christ. He knows the whole point of the Messiah’s mission is to reestablish human beings within the social ways of covenantal faithfulness.” Chapter eleven. JOHN’S GOSPEL—ONLY BEGOTTEN SON
“The truth of the Bible belongs only to those who read the whole book. Everyone else is destined for confusion and theological weirdness.” chapter twelve. ROMANS—GOD’S FIRSTBORN SON
“In the most monumental and paradoxical act of empathetic love imaginable, God became the Son of God and is now our eternal Brother.” chapter thirteen. HEBREWS—OUR ETERNAL BROTHER
“By His covenant-confirming death on the cross, Jesus has conquered the usurping ruler of this world and returned the earth to human lordship.” chapter fourteen. SON OF MAN
“Jesus emerges in the biblical narrative as the one Man who is true to the human potential, true to the original ideal for which humanity was made, true to God’s image. As such, He is the Son of God that Adam was supposed to be.” chapter fifteen. THE LAST ADAM
“Jesus is God’s eternal Son in the sense that He was eternally pledged to become one with the human race and fulfill the covenantal terms of our Sonship.” chapter sixteen. ETERNAL COVENANT PLEDGE
“God possesses the sum total of all the characteristics of all God has made, while simultaneously existing in an ontological realm beyond all God has made.” chapter seventeen. THE TRANSCENDENCE OF GOD
“To say God is love is necessarily to say that God is a minimum relational dynamic of three.” chapter eighteen. THE GENIUS OF THREE
“The obedience of Christ to the point of death was a supreme act of covenantal faithfulness, not a supreme act of appeasement.” chapter nineteen. CUTTING DEEP INTO GOD
“As we give ourselves over to the personal internal communion of the Holy Spirit, we are gradually, incrementally cultivated toward responsible self-governance until, at last, love alone defines every free act we perform.” chapter twenty. THE UNFORCER
“In becoming the Son of God, God bent reality itself, His reality, to meet us in our need.” Chapter twenty-one. A COVENANT STORY
