Are we all God's children?

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   MickeySrposted 12 years ago

   Are we all God's children?
   
   Jesus said "You are of your father, the devil" & "You must be born again" - so, are we all God's children or not?
   
   

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   Man from Modestoposted 12 years ago

   No, we are not all God's children. The son follows in the likeness and image of his father. Elisha did the same kinds of things Elijah did- because Elisha had the spirit of Elijah.
   
   Those who are the spiritual children of God will do the things God does... which Jesus also did.

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   hookedhuntressposted 12 years ago

   All people are God’s creation.(Colossians 1:16)
   God loves the entire world. (John 3:16) Only those who are born again are children of God (John 1:12; 11:52; Romans 8:16; 1 John 3:1-10).
   We become children of God when we are saved because we are adopted into God’s family through our relationship with Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:5-6; Ephesians 1:5)
   
   All people are given the opportunity to know God and have a relationship with Him.
   
   Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
   
   There is no other way to be children of God except through His Son,Jesus Christ.
   
   Simply being born into the world a human being does not make anyone a child of God."You must be born again"
   
   John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
   4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
   5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
   6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
   7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
   8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
   
   1Jn 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
   8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
   
   
   1Jn 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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      AbiyahChaazawanposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      He died for the Children of Israel. Not everybody. Only if you accept our God you can dwell amongst us. Sounds complicated but I will break it down. First of all the God in the Holy Bible of Abraham, Issac and Jacob have a Chosen People. Deut 7:6 Thi

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   lone77starposted 12 years ago

   If one serves the ego (the false self of this world), then they are not effectively being God's children. If they are acting through the Holy Spirit (the true self, immortal spirit within), then they are effectively being God's children.
   
   We are all potentially "children of God," so I guess you could say, "yes," we are. But many reject their own Holy Spirit.
   
   Genesis 1:26 makes it clear that we were created in His image and likeness. Genesis 2:7 makes it clear that we were also created from the dust of the ground (dust = chemicals = biology); so, we are immortal spirit wrapped in Homo sapiens flesh. But we also have another component which Yehoshua pointed out to the Pharisees and others. This other component is the product of the forbidden tree -- the dichotomies of the physical realm: good-evil, right-wrong, generous-selfishness, wisdom-stupidity and more. This is ego, and ego loves to be seen as right or important. Ego likes to be seen as suffering (what the Nazarene condemned of those who were fasting). Ego can be a tyrant, but also a suicide perpetrator.
   
   Anything done through the ego is an abomination. By saying this, I'm condemning most of my life. Oh, well. I continue to struggle toward my Father's love and my own awakening and the day when I can legitimately be called a child of God.

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   onegoodwomanposted 12 years ago

   Yes, we are....................but some of us are the " ugly, red haired" stepchildren.
   
   
   
   
   
   I, just might be that stepchild...................but, still, I am here, and I am a force to be reconded with.
   
   
   Do Not think, that, because, you play within the rules, do all  things right, and no wrong can be found in you.................that you are more valued or more important than the unruly or wayward child.
   
   Do Not think................that one child is more valuable to God, than another is.

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   bravewarriorposted 12 years ago

   Yes, we are all God's children.  It depends on whether or not each being accepts God as his/her Father as to whether or not this fact is accepted!

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