February 14, 2023

The Ordo Salutis: What is adoption and when does it happen?

 


In the Reformed Christian tradition, there is a lot of theology surrounding the Ordo Salutis (the order of salvation.) Does regeneration come before faith or after faith? Are we elect before or after conversion? Does calling come before or after election? These are some soteriological questions they try to answer about the sequence of events in human salvation with their system of theology and their particular Ordo Salutis. 

In this article, we are going to be digging into adoption. What do the Reformed Calvinists believe adoption is? When do they think it happens? And above all, what does Scripture actually tell us about the topic?