We are not "all God's children"

[twin.spin]

Originally Posted by I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA

AMEN! Without the Holy Spirit no one can understand the Bible.

Excepcially athesists ..... God chose only the Jews, not all people:

Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are apeople holy to the LORD your God.
The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

I guess one could say that God is the originator of bashing the false denonimations. Some that come to mind are:

• the many false gods the Egyptians had
  • which most of the ten plagues were directed at
• the sun god Dushara and the goddess Allat
  • two of the chief god's in Edom
• Dagon
  • the chief god of the Philistines
• the male moon-god, "Yerach," and the female sun-god, "Shamash,"
  • the two gods of the city of Jericho (Later in history, these were changed to Baal and Ashteroth.)
• good old King Nebuchadnezzar
  • the king of Babylon who made himself a god

[Dewdrop93]

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
(from Traveling Mercies by Anne Lamott; on page 22 of Bird by Bird she attributes this quote to “my priest friend Tom”)

[prophetwilliams]

If we were all children of God it would nullify the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.It would be no need for the New Birth. No change would be necessary .Also there would be no choice involved which violates our free will.
I believe there is no choice , youre his creation and he loves you
I believe there is a choice to believe in work of Jesus and show you love God back.

scriptures were already noted

[MysticPhD]

Originally Posted by prophetwilliams

If we were all children of God it would nullify the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ.It would be no need for the New Birth. No change would be necessary .Also there would be no choice involved which violates our free will.

It would nullify nothing. The reason Christ was sent is because we are all God's children and He wanted us to know that through Christ's life, teaching, death and resurrection (rebirth as spirit) . . . "no greater Love hath a man . . ." God is not wasteful. He would not create merely to destroy the majority of His creation.