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 =Adoptionism=
-This term is most commonly applied to the notion that Jesus was merely an ordinary man of unusual virtue or closeness to God whom God ‘adopted’ into divine Sonship.  This exceptional elevation, which in primitive adoptionism was usually associated with the event of Christ’s baptism, involves nevertheless only a special divine activity upon or in Jesus.
+This term is most commonly applied to the notion that Jesus was merely an ordinary man of unusual virtue or closeness to God whom God ‘adopted’ into divine Sonship. Adoptionism was rooted in second-and third-century monarchianism but flourished in the eighth century. According to this view, Jesus was only a man but was adopted by God because of His divine powers. This is said to have occurred when God declared from heaven: “This is my Son” (Matt. 3:17).<ref>Norman L. Geisler, Systematic Theology, Volume Two: God, Creation (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2003), 297.</ref>
-Adoptionism (or Adoptianism) is technically the title also for a less well-known movement in the Spanish church of the 8th century, condemned for making Christ’s manhood participate in his dignity as Son only by adoption.<ref>Sinclair B. Ferguson and J.I. Packer, New Dictionary of Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 6.</ref>
 =William Branham's adoptionist leanings=