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All unbelievers are not children of God.
All humans are creations of God and in the image of God but only believers are children of God.
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"For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have
said: We are His offspring." (Acts 17:28)
All are sons of God in a created sense; sort of like the workshop relationship
between Geppetto and Pinocchio. In other words; it was by God's craftsmanship
that we exist.
To illustrate this further:
There's a guy in the book of Genesis said to be the inventor of woodwind
instruments. As such he became the father of all who take up music that way, viz:
sons of God is a very loose term, sort of like sons of thunder, sons of the prophets,
and/or sons of Belial.
Compare Luke 6:35 where charitable folk are called sons of God: apparently
irrespective of their age, race, gender, and/or religious preference.
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"For in him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have
said: We are His offspring." (Acts 17:28)
All are sons of God in a created sense; sort of like the workshop relationship
between Geppetto and Pinocchio. In other words; it was by God's craftsmanship
that we exist.
To illustrate this further:
There's a guy in the book of Genesis said to be the inventor of woodwind
instruments. As such he became the father of all who take up music that way, viz:
sons of God is a very loose term, sort of like sons of thunder, sons of the prophets,
and/or sons of Belial.
Compare Luke 6:35 where charitable folk are called sons of God: apparently
irrespective of their age, race, gender, and/or religious preference.
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God made everything that exists. "16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." - Colossians 1:16,17
Long before God made the world, He chose me to be His. "He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will," - Ephesians 1:5
Kinda makes me sit still and feel a sense of awe and wonder. He is watching me. He is aware of me. He is paying attention to me. He loves me!
Long before God made the world, He chose me to be His. "He predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will," - Ephesians 1:5
Kinda makes me sit still and feel a sense of awe and wonder. He is watching me. He is aware of me. He is paying attention to me. He loves me!
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[Act 13:10 NIV] 10 "You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?
[1Jo 3:10 NIV] 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
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The next best thing to being God's direct descendant, is to be His kin by means of
adoption because adopted kids have a right to identify themselves by their adopted
father's name, a right to be in his genealogy, a right to his providence, and a right to
inheritance the same as any of his direct descendants.
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The next best thing to being God's direct descendant, is to be His kin by means of
adoption because adopted kids have a right to identify themselves by their adopted
father's name, a right to be in his genealogy, a right to his providence, and a right to
inheritance the same as any of his direct descendants.
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