Emphasis Preaching Journal

Three-year-old Jessica had been adopted a few days after her birth by the DeBoer family of Michigan. Sometime later, her birth parents in Iowa suddenly wanted custody of their child returned to them. The legal tug-of-war raged on in the courts of both states for months. Paul talks about adoption in this passage from Romans. At that time the world was fully aware of the Roman process for adoption. It was a lengthy process, and once completed, it was "a done deal." The natural parents could never again seek custody of the child. The results of Roman adoption were as follows: 1.