Yes his life saved not ours .That new life comes with the adoption . The better thing that acompanies his work of salvation in us.
The adoption is the new birth. The call to adoption.
As the bride of Christ previous widowed no husband and no heavenly father . James speaks of encouragement for the family of God to suffer with each other. the kind of religion he works to perform in the new creatures to love one another.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Same kind of parable spoken of in the old testament.
Zechariah 7:9-10 King James Version (KJV) T
hus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Salvation is all one work of the faith of Christ who works in us to both will and do His good pleasure .Philippians 1:6 informs us if he began the work he will finish it to the end. He is the alpha and omega .
Ephesians 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
23And not only
they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, WAITING for the adoption,
to wit, the redemption of our body.
we are Adopted when we are Glorified.
Predestination is of existing saints to adoption/glorification, not sinners to conversion. (Eph. 1:5, 11; Rom. 8:23, 29-30)
3. Election is to service, calling and purpose, not to salvation. (Isa. 42:1; Acts 9:15; Rom. 11:28)
4. Adoption is the future redemption of the body, not conversion. (Rom. 8:23, 15-17; Gal. 4:1-6)
5. Sinners become sons of God through the new birth, not through adoption. (John 1:12-13)
6. There are 2 callings: Gospel and vocational, not inward or outward or effectual or ineffectual, etc… (2 Thess. 2:14; Eph. 4:1; Rom. 8:28; 2 Cor. 5:20)
7. Christ’s life, not his death is what saves. (Rom. 5:10; 1 Cor. 15:17)
8. Sinner is saved by regeneration, not atonement. (Tit. 3:5)
9. Glorification is what’s limited, not atonement. (Rom. 3:23; 8:17-30)
10. When Christ said, “It is finished,” on the cross, everyone was still in their sins as per 1 Cor. 15:17.