We have been chosen to have the true relationship revealed to us, and to believe that it is the Father and Son's Spirit that dwells in us, by which we have been regenerated as sons of God. This regeneration through Their Spirit marks us as children of God, aligning us with the family terminology used in Scripture. Those regenerated by Their Spirit are called sons of God, reinforcing the family aspect that binds us to Them in purpose and unity.

God the Father is deeply involved in bringing many sons to glory through Jesus Christ. His personal involvement in Christ's sacrifice and resurrection was essential, and He continues to actively raise His children. We have the promise from our Father and Jesus Christ that They will keep and preserve us with Their power. God the Father personally regenerates His saints, qualifying them for the Kingdom of God alongside Jesus Christ. Those in God's church are referred to as both sons and children, implying that we will one day be more like Him, though even now we are in His image and likeness. Already, a Family exists in heaven, not the angelic family, but the Family in which we are sons and daughters, part of that heavenly Family while still on earth. This heavenly Family consists of many members and is growing, a dynamic family comprised of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. Before anything else came into existence, there was God and the Word, two Supreme Beings who coexisted, with the Word later becoming Jesus Christ. Both God the Father and Jesus Christ took part in creation, with the Father creating through Jesus Christ, working in harmony to begin the creation of new sons for the Kingdom.

The concept of the 'Sons of God' is intricately tied to the understanding of Elohim, revealing a profound truth about the nature of the Godhead. Elohim, a plural term used over 2,570 times in the Old Testament, signifies more than one divine being, indicating a family or assembly of powerful ones. In the New Testament, Jesus identifies two within this Godhead as the Father and the Son, affirming His own place within Elohim by asserting His unity with the Father. Remarkably, the Bible extends this divine family to include human beings in whom the Spirit of God dwells, calling them sons of God. Scriptures show that believers are already considered part of the Godhead, described as children of Elohim and members of His Family, which exists both in heaven and on earth. This challenges the narrow view of monotheism, revealing that Elohim is expanding, increasing the number who are part of the Godhead. God is creating a growing family, a kingdom where many are united as one, acting in perfect harmony. Jesus used family terminology—Father, Son, children, brothers, sisters—to help us grasp this unity, praying that His disciples and all believers may be one with the Father and the Son through agreement and shared mind. The ultimate purpose is that each believer might be filled with the fullness of Elohim, becoming part of this divine institution, which is both a family and a kingdom, ever-growing until it encompasses all who are drawn into it.

The relationship between God the Father and Jesus Christ forms the foundation for understanding sonship. The Father testified beforehand that the preexistent Word would become His Son, declaring in Psalm 2:7, "You are My Son, today I have begotten You," and affirming in Psalm 45:6 that the Son's throne is forever. Jesus alone knows the Father intimately, does the Father's will without exception, and receives all authority from Him. This unique sonship is expressed in perfect love and obedience, culminating in Christ's voluntary death and resurrection at the Father's command. Through Christ, believers become sons of the Father by adoption. Faith in Jesus, repentance, baptism, and receipt of the Spirit of adoption enable them to cry "Abba, Father" and to share in the Father's family. Sonship requires keeping the commandments, loving as the Father loves, and pursuing perfection as He is perfect. Those led by the Spirit are sons, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, provided they suffer with Him. The same pattern extends to all humanity in the sense of creation. Every person is an offspring of the Father and receives His providential care, yet only those who respond to the Son enter the moral and personal relationship of true sonship. The Father's love remains constant even toward the rebellious, but full blessings belong to those reconciled through Christ's propitiatory sacrifice. Thus the entire plan of salvation flows from the Father's love, mediated exclusively through the Son, so that believers may be made perfect in one with the Father and the Son and ultimately be glorified together with Christ.

The concept of being "sons of God" centers on the identity and destiny of those whom God has called, chosen, and adopted into His own Family. This calling begins with God the Father's own will, as He opens the mind of a person, calls them by the word of truth, and gives them to Jesus Christ so that they might become "a kind of first fruits" of His creation. Those who receive Christ are given the right to become children of God, born not of flesh or human will but of God Himself. Through faith in Christ, believers become "sons of God," no longer under the law as a tutor but living as members of God's own household, His temple, with God dwelling among them as Father to sons and daughters. Being led by God's Spirit identifies one as a son of God, called to glorify Him through righteous living. This sonship is compared to Roman adoption, which secured full legal and social standing, making the adopted child entirely legitimate and entitled to everything the family possessed. In the same way, believers are granted the "Spirit of adoption," receiving total legitimacy as children of God, with all the rights, privileges, and family obligations that entails, including carrying on the divine Family name. As children of God, they become heirs, and specifically joint heirs with Christ, destined to share in His glory, having been foreknown, predestined, called, justified, and glorified according to God's purpose to conform them to the image of His Son. This sonship is directly tied to God's ultimate purpose: since no being less than God Himself could be trusted to never sin, God is bringing many into His own Family so that the vast purpose of the universe can be safely fulfilled. Christ is described as "the firstborn from the dead," the beginning of the Family line of God, with believers destined to follow as part of that same line. Just as Christ's resurrection guarantees the future resurrection of the first fruits, believers will be transformed from natural, corruptible bodies into spiritual, incorruptible ones, bearing the image of the heavenly Man. The term "children of God" used in this context carries a deeper, more tender meaning than mere legal adoption, indicating true descendants, cherished as beloved sons, though it has not yet been revealed exactly what this transformation will fully entail. Their citizenship is already in heaven, and they eagerly await the transformation of their lowly bodies into glorious ones like Christ's. Creation itself groans, awaiting "the revealing of the sons of God," when believers will be changed into spirit beings, bringing liberation from corruption. As sons of God, they will reign as kings and priests, receive an incorruptible crown, and inherit the Kingdom of God, sharing in the fullness of what the Father possesses.

The concept of Sons of God unfolds within a larger argument that mankind's destiny is to become God, a teaching often condemned as blasphemous but presented as thoroughly scriptural when traced through a logical sequence. The foundation begins by dismantling the popular belief in an inherently immortal soul, showing instead that death means the complete cessation of life, as demonstrated in Genesis and reinforced by Ezekiel's statement that the soul who sins shall die. Because eternal life is not innate but a gift of God, hope for existence beyond the grave rests entirely on the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is validated by numerous eyewitnesses, corroborating resurrections such as Lazarus and the saints in Matthew 27, and the willingness of the apostles to suffer martyrdom for what they witnessed. A resurrection, however, is not merely a return to previous life but, in the case of believers, a transformation into something greater—a spiritual, glorified existence. This transformation is explained through the term "Sons of God," which in the Old Testament (Job 1:6) refers to both mankind and angels as products of a fiat, instantaneous creation. By contrast, what God is producing in believers now is a cooperative, time-consuming creative process between Creator and created, distinct from that original fiat creation. Romans 8 describes this process: those led by God's Spirit, rather than the flesh, are called sons of God, adopted as children who cry "Abba, Father," and destined to be glorified together with Christ. This glorification, described using the Greek term doxa, involves being transformed "from glory to glory" into the very likeness of God, as II Corinthians 3 states directly—an image so identical that it raises the question of how one could bear it without actually becoming God. Using a four-step scriptural argument, sonship is shown to mean genuine equality of kind with God: Jesus, as Creator become flesh, claimed equality with the Father as Son of God; believers are called joint heirs with Christ, destined for the same oneness with the Father that Christ Himself enjoys. Yet this equality is carefully qualified as qualitative, not quantitative. Qualitatively, sons of God share the very kind or nature of God, just as offspring share the nature of their parents—flesh reproduces flesh, and Spirit reproduces Spirit. Quantitatively, however, there remains a real distinction of rank, size, and glory, as illustrated by Paul's comparison of the differing glories of sun, moon, and stars, and by the varying "rank" implied in Christ's statement about many mansions and the request of James and John's mother for positions of honor. Thus, sonship culminates in believers being made literal sons of God, sharing the divine nature and glory in kind, serving eternally as Christ's close staff of firstfruits, yet always remaining in humble, grateful submission to the Father and Son, who retain a quantitatively higher and unmatched rank within the divine family.