Adoption story to tell kids when explaining adoption-Christian one?

mscrawdad

I've heard this story before, also. There are many Christian book stores. I would recommend you check out the Yellow pages and call around to the ones in your area. If they don't have it, they might recognize the story and be able to get you a book that discusses adoption from a Bible standpoint. I would also go online and set the search engine for Religious books for children or something like that. Then try a more advanced search giving the topic of Adoption. Good luck.

aloha.girl59

Best adoption story to tell your children: their own.

Talking about other people's adoptions is fine, but to compare stories isn't necessarily helpful or wise. The only 'story' a child truly cares about is his or her own. Be honest and truthful...that's the most Christian thing you can do for your kids.

LaurieDB

Joseph was Jesus' stepfather, not adoptive father. Jesus was quite clear about who his real father is, anyway. It's not a fair comparison to adoption as we know it.

Moses' adoption wasn't exactly what we think of when we think of adoption. It had absolutely nothing to do with Pharaoh's daughter looking to form a family. It had nothing to do with Moses' mother being pressured into relinquishment, or feeling that it was best that Moses be raised by peoples other than she. It was done in order to save his life! After three months of raising Moses, his mother realized she could no longer hide him from the Egyptian Pharaoh's people. The Pharaoh commanded the all of the first-born, Hebrew male children be killed. She put him in a basket and into the Nile River. She didn't just leave him there, however. Moses' sister watched to oversee what would transpire at this point.

When Pharaoh's daughter found Moses, Moses' sister who had been watching (today we'd call that "stalking") approached her and offered to bring a Hebrew woman to nurse Moses. Pharaoh's daughter not only said to go ahead, she actually paid wages to the woman, who was Moses' biological mother. Significantly, when Moses was an adult, he went to his brethren -- his brethren the Hebrews, that is.

Probably the biggest example used to support the idea that God sanctions adoption is in the writings of Paul. Paul discusses God adopting those who accept His Son, Jesus. Well, this is certainly not adoption as we define it in our society. It is a spiritual adoption of adults, not babies. It is also an adoption based on God offering and the adult person responding to that offer. The person has a choice to be adopted into the family of God or not. Significantly, the word in the original Greek text that Paul uses to describe this adoption is "huiothesia." Huiothesia is a word formed from the two Greek words "huio" meaning a son, and "thesia" meaning a placing. In the Greek, the word was a legal term that referred to a father's declaration that his natural born child was officially his child, with all of the privileges, rights and heirship that this relationship carried. Well, this is the exact opposite of adoption by those other than parents, or at least kin!

Another example is Abram and Sarah. Desperately wanting an heir, Abram and Sarah adopted a son born to a servant in their home. Abram told God that this child would be his heir. God said otherwise and told Abram that a child of his own blood would be the heir. Abram suggested that he could make a baby with one of the female servants of his house, and that this child could be his heir. After all, this child would at least be of Abram's blood. Again, God said no and told Abram that his heir would be the son of his relationship with Sarah.

This example shows that biology matters to God. Should biology, then, not matter to us? If anything, it should matter to Christian-based adoption agencies. But, we still practice adoption that seals up any sign of the biological background of the adopted person and replaces it with an altered birth certificate that is designed to look as though the adoptee was born to his or her adoptive parents.

Hmmm.

tickled blue

Moses' 'adoption story' is not a good one to tell:

1. Moses was seperated from his birthfamily because his adoptive family was killing all the babies of his race. The birthfamily had no choice.

2. He fled from his adoptive family after killing one of their race for hurting one of his race.

3. He only came back to the land of his birth to lead his people out of it. With God's help, he sent plagues and death.

I can't find any story that is specifically what you are asking for. I'll keep looking....but the truth--in a respectful and loving way--is always the best story.

sunny

Wasn't Jesus more of an IVF or surrogate baby?

And I think Jesus would be disgusted by the way adoption is practiced today. Taking babies from disadvantaged people to give to barren women? I don't think so. That's NOT Christianity.

Christianity is helping others who need help--not taking their children for yourself.

Or begging for them on the internet.

momtojullex

The story of Moses?

I believe it was during the time in which they were taking the oldest born son from each family and killing him. (I think out of fear of the prophecy of the first born son being the new "king"). Moses's mother put him in a basket (hence the "Moses basket") and put him in the river. He floated down stream and Miriam (I believe), the kings wife (I believe) found him while she was bathing/washing clothes.

Jesus was "adopted" by Joseph.

Wow...I need to go back to Sunday School.

Edit:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Baby-Moses/Linda-Hayward/e/9780394994109

I lied, it was the Pharoah's daughter that found Moses. And Miriam was Moses's biological sister, not the one that found him. Wow... time to go back to church, huh?

ChiChi

I've never heard that particular story, but Esther was also adopted.

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