Youre trying to be too legalistic about this very simple teaching of adoption being a union of love between God and man when man opens himself on such things as love of neighbor for example
LOL!!!
NOBODY can out legalistic the RCC.
The RCC is the one who tries to complicate the gospel by adding works and sacraments, and all kinds of other requirements to being saved that God never taught us.
4,108 posted on 01/03/2013 10:45:49 AM PST by metmom
( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)