Brian,

round 33


As a Christian how are we to pray? The Old Testament Jews were taught to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, Matthew 6:9., in distinction from Gentile gods. In Matthew 6 when Jesus Christ taught the OT Jew under the law to pray Our Father which art in heaven, of course, He taught it as the corporate prayer of a nation who had been called out by God as Gods SON. You will notice that no individual in the OT is ever called the Son of God or a Son of God unless they are a created angel without blood. There is no such thing in the OT as a son of God in the NT sense. In the NT sense a son of God is a sinner who has received Jesus Christ. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.( Jh. 1:12) Notice carefully in the OT that no individual is ever called son of God. The nation ( corporately) of Israel is called sons and daughters in Isaiah and the nation corporately as a unit is called MY Firstborn son. You will find that in Ex. 2,3, and 4. The sons of God in the OT, from Job 1 through Job 38 and Gen.6, are plainly angelic beings who have neither flesh nor blood nor can they be born again. Therefore, one should get the distinction immediately between the disciples of Matt. 6:9 who pray to God as a corporate Father. Our Father.and the individual Christian of whom it is said ye have received the Spirit of Adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, father, Romans 8:15. The Christian never prays Our Father, in individual prayer, but my Father, Holy Father, and Father.

Now, Israelites did not have as individual, personal consciousness of sonship to God as " my Father," Isarel, as it stood, had God as their corporate Father as a nation chosen of God to be God's firstborn son..

Does son mean Jesus Christ no, no, and once again NO.
Shain1611

"SANCTIFY THEM THROUGH THY TRUTH: THY WORD IS TRUTH
(John 17:17)

And Jesus Speaking; " He that rejecteth me, receiveth not my words, hath one that, judgeth him:the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in
( John12:48 KJV)