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The reason why I ask this is because a recent discussion I had with a Jehovah's Witness they said that "no we are not all God's childre" which is what made me end the discussion promptly. Was this appropiate for the person to say that? Is this how you believe as well?

2007-11-03 14:25:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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It most certainly is not how I believe. I am not willing to take the authority to tell anyone they are lost unless they believe exactly as I believe. I am comfortable in many denominations, but I belong to a non-denominational church that has many members who are recovering from years of dogma and condemnation that has no basis in the teachings of Christ. I get a little uncomfortable with churches that claim to have the only "truth," especially when they poppped up in the past few hundred years. Others that claim to be the first and only by virtue of faulty reasoning also are questionable when they exclude all other Christians. Some Christians seem to be drawn to churches that promote the " we have an exclusive lock on the truth dogma."
Edit: 8Track, not from this Christian. I gave a thumbs up to off set someone so insecure in their belief that they can't handle someone who does not believe as they do. JUST what I have been trying to say.

2007-11-03 14:45:05 · answer #1 · answered by One Wing Eagle Woman 6 · 3 0

Gal 3:26 "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus."


We ought to be able to discern who is following his teachings and who isn't.

Take Christ's teaching that we must love our neighbor as an example. One of Jesus' apostles, John, wrote the same thing at 1 John 3:10-12. It reads in the NIV: "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 a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother. This is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother's were righteous."

Now, of the multitude of religions that claim to be following Christs' teachings, how many of them actually do? Nearly all so-called Christian religions and their followers participate in war. In fact, millions have been duped by their clergy into supposing that they are doing their Christian duty by suiting up as soldiers and slaughtering those whom they are told are their enemies.

On the other hand, it is well known that Jehovah's Witnesses absolutely refuse to do military service, no matter the personal cost. We would rather be killed than become killers. So, just on this one issue there is an enormous contrast between Jehovah's Witnesses and the religionists of Christendom. While there are a handful of sects and Christian individuals that call themselves pacifists, nearly all of Christendom's religions, from Catholics to the evangelical fundamentalists, are more than willing to march to the beat of drums of war.

For those who are bewildered by the multitude that claim to be following Christ, considering how the various religions measure up just on the one issue of war should narrow the field down considerably.

2007-11-05 02:00:51 · answer #2 · answered by keiichi 6 · 1 0

I'm not a Jehovah Witness. I'm just an ordinary Bible believing Christian, but I concur with them on that point. People are not God's children by default. They must be born of God to become God's children. That's what the Bible explicitly teaches.

"To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God." John 1:12,13

"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 a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1John 3:10

Ga 3:26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,

2007-11-03 15:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 3 0

--WELL NO ONE can make the decision as to who is or who is not,(but God) but the idea is presented in Bible by the pattern of life we decide to live:

(1 John 3:10-12)
-- “10 THE CHILDREN OF GOD and the CHILDREN OF the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother.
--11 For this is the message which YOU have heard from [the] beginning, that we should have love for one another; 12 not like Cain, who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother. And for the sake of what did he slaughter him? Because his own works were wicked, but those of his brother [were] righteous.”

--ANY ONE of us can cross the line of no return!

2007-11-03 15:40:38 · answer #4 · answered by THA 5 · 2 1

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2016-12-08 11:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

A witness said that?!?

I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness (and now I'm a witch! xD) and that's not true.

We ARE all God's Children. What I think the Brother or Sister meant is that not all of humankind are slated for Everlasting Life/To rule as one of the 144,000 in heaven.

God loves all of his creations, that's why he sent Jesus to earth to die to give them all Everlasting Life.

However, not all people will accept that ransom sacrafice, and so they will pass on to death and oblivion.

2007-11-03 14:33:52 · answer #6 · answered by witchiebunny 3 · 2 2

In the days of the apostles, wicked persons were classified as "accursed children" and "children of the Devil." (2Pe 2:14; 1Jo 3:10) In contrast, persons exercising faith in Christ and becoming spirit-begotten ones are called "God's children." (Joh 1:12; Ro 8:16) Disciples are often called children.-Joh 13:33; Heb 2:13.

(John 1:12-18) 12 However, as many as did receive him, to them he gave authority to become God's children, because they were exercising faith in his name; 13 and they were born, not from blood or from a fleshly will or from man's will, but from God. 14 So the Word became flesh and resided among us, and we had a view of his glory, a glory such as belongs to an only-begotten son from a father; and he was full of undeserved kindness and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, yes, he actually cried out-this was the one who said [it]-saying: "The one coming behind me has advanced in front of me, because he existed before me.") 16 For we all received from out of his fullness, even undeserved kindness upon undeserved kindness. 17 Because the Law was given through Moses, the undeserved kindness and the truth came to be through Jesus Christ. 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him.

Individuals privileged to receive a resurrection from the dead are spoken of as "children of the resurrection" (Lu 20:36); also those who are joint heirs with Christ are "the children by the promise" (Ro 9:8) or children "of the free woman" (Ga 4:31). All those desiring to attain life in the Kingdom of heaven must display the childlike qualities of humility, receptiveness, and trust. (Mt 18:2-4) Men and women who strive to obey God by manifesting the light of truth in their lives are described as "obedient children" and as "children of light."-1Pe 1:14; Eph 5:8.

Paul counseled the congregation at Corinth as he would children, to "widen out" in affection; prior to this he had encouraged them not to become children in powers of understanding.-2Co 6:13; 1Co 14:20.

2007-11-03 14:43:17 · answer #7 · answered by EBONY 3 · 2 1

(John 8:42-44) Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, for from God I came forth... You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/t22/

2007-11-06 09:35:32 · answer #8 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0 0

although I don't believe in god, I believe in the constitution of the united states. "all men were created equal", any fool who can't hang with that is either a religious idiot or a traitor to their country. or both, and thank you for the thumbs down, on a question like this, i see it as a confirmation of my humanity, and as a condemnation of christianity.

2007-11-03 14:34:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6 2

We are all God's Children in the sense that we are all his creation. Perhaps he misunderstood him you you misunderstood him. I don't know.

2007-11-03 14:32:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6 1

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