Do our children belong to GOD and not us?

Question

Is there a verse in the bible that refers to our children only being ours temporary? If so, will you please share that scripture with me? Thank you.

Answer 1

I have done a quick study, and have found no one verse that says that our children belong to God. I have found verses indicating that parents dedicated their children to God. I have found verses stating that children are gifts from God. That God cares for children. But have not found any that indicated that our children are ours only temporarily.
As I have said, this was a quick look. There may indeed be such a verse. If you are interested in chapter and verse of the verses above. I would suggest looking in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.

Answer 2

Children are God's gift.
Check out Gen 18:19; Deut. 6:7; 11:19.
The parents stand with their children as God does to the parent.
Hope this sheds some light for ya. :-)

Answer 3

The scripture that comes to my mind concerning little children is this: Forbid not little children to come unto me for as such is the Kingdom of Heaven..They are God's in the sense that they are not accountable for any sin until the age of accountability, therefore, should one die they automatically go to Heaven...The age of accountability is probably different in every child...I think the law says a child at the age of 7 years old is accountable for their actions...

Answer 4

yes not sure of the verse but children belong to God. actually we all are god's children

Answer 5

Children do not really belong to anyone. But how can they belong to a spirit?

Answer 6

Our children are on loan to us to nurture and love. They belong to themselves, just as each of us has responsibility for our own growth and learning.

Answer 7

Children:
Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these [are] the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it:
6:2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do [it]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.
6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6:6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
6:8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Answer 8

I CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE HAS CITED THAT TIME-WORN SAPPY QUOTE FROM "THE PROPHET" BY KAHIL GIBRAN ON THE SUBJECT OF CHILDREN!

"They come of and through you, they do not belong to you".

Answer 9

This is a good question. Maybe God should be paying child support instead of me.

Answer 10

'EVERYTHING in the heavens and EARTH is yours Oh Lord and this is your kingdom. We adore you as being in control of everything.'
This includes you and I