What does the Bible say about adoption?
Adoption can be a loving alternative for biological parents who may have a variety of reasons for being unable to care for their children. It can also be an answer to prayer for many couples who have not been able to conceive their own offspring. Adoption is shown favorably throughout Scripture as a way that God uses people to do His will and bring Him glory.
Jochebed/Moses
The story is told in the book of Exodus about a Hebrew woman named Jochebed who bore a son during a time period where Pharaoh (the king) was ordering all the male infants to be put to death in order to control population. Jochebed took a basket, waterproofed it with tar and pitch, and sent the baby down the river in the basket. One of Pharaoh's daughter's spotted the basket and retrieved the child. He was eventually adopted into this royal family and was given the name Moses. He went on to become a faithful and blessed servant of God.
Esther
In the biblical book of Esther, a beautiful girl named Esther, who was adopted by her cousin after her parents' death, became a prominent female figure in the Old Testament. Esther became a queen and God used her to bring deliverance to the Jewish people.
Story of king Salomo
Two women who were harlots came to the king Solomo. And one said: ' On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And this woman's son died in the night because she lay on him! Then the other woman said, 'No! The living son is mine. Yours is the dead so!. And the king said: 'Get me a sword. Divide the living child in two and give half to the one woman and half to the other.' But the woman whose child was the living one spoke to the king, for she was deeply stirred over her son, and said, 'Oh my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him! Then the king answered, 'Give the living child to the first woman who spoke. She is his mother.'... And God was with the king administering justice." I mention this story in passing simply because it is the only other example of infant relinquishment in the Bible. We see, according to Biblical standards, that the pressure by which a woman will surrender her child for adoption, is under sentence of the child's death.
Jesus
In the New Testament, God's one and only Son, Jesus Christ, was conceived through the Holy Spirit instead of through the seed of a man (Matthew 1:18). He was adopted and raised by His mother's husband, Joseph, who took Jesus in as his own child.
Adopted in His family
Once we give our hearts to Christ, believing and trusting in Him alone for salvation, God says we become part of His family - not through the natural process of human conception, but through adoption. "So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into His family - calling Him 'Father, dear Father' (Romans 8:15).
Bringing a person into a family by means of adoption is done by choice and out of love. "His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure" (Ephesians 1:5).
Verder heb ik een aantal Nederlandstalige links gevonden waar het over dit onderwerp gaat. Ik zal de links hieronder plaatsen en later alles eens goes doorlezen en mijn gedachten en mening erover geven.
Link 1: http://www.ruardganzevoort.nl/pdf/2010_Onnatuurlijke_banden.pdf
Link 2: http://www.refoweb.nl/vragenrubriek/3435/kunt-u-mij-vertellen-hoe-de-bijbel-tegenover-adoptie/
Link 3: http://www.refdag.nl/adoptie_is_geen_breuk_met_de_bijbel_1_373913
Link 4: http://www.refdag.nl/achtergrond/mens/geadopteerde_kinderen_zijn_ook_eigen_kinderen_1_534853
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