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Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)
 
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Hello.

Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)


Good Day,

Clearly he understands creation and child to be synonyms... He is incorrect.

In Him,

Bill
 
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Hello.

Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)

Adam is called a son of God, the angels are called sons of God and those of us born again are also called sons of God, since at the time we are saved, we actually become new creations by God. So, there seems to be a component that only those who are true children of God can claim a direct creation by God. By default, anyone else is not.
 
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Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)
The confusion arises because the word tells us that we are created in God's image. That is not the same as being a child of God. Lord Jesus told some Pharisees that their father was the devil. The pope is wrong.
 
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Hello.

Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)
I never watched the URLs so I don't know what 'verse' the pope alluded to. Was it one of these TWO.

PSA 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

Does the bible mean just David? Just Jews? Or just everyone?

ACT 17:26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
27 that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.' 29 "Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.


If Paul said the Greek poet was right that even they were his children, and then Paul himself said the Greeks specifically....is the pope so wrong?
 
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Hello.

Pope Francis seems to say that all human beings, regardless of faith are children of God:

"We are living at a time when religious believers and people of goodwill everywhere sense the need to grow in mutual understanding and respect and to support each other as members of our one human family," he said, "for all of us are God's children."
'All of us are God's children,' pope says in video message to Myanmar


From a message given to Myanmar which is 90% Bhuddist, 4% Muslim.

“We are all children of God. Everyone. Everyone.”
Pope Francis was reported as saying this on 23/04/2018
‘Is dad in heaven?’ little boy asks pope

The gospel of John says:

John 1: 12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)

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We are created beings. God cares about everything He created. We were created in His image ... likeness ... His character (intangible/spiritual) within a physical form.

Before the fall ... Adam & Eve had both a spiritual connection with God and was also in His presence. After the fall the physical presence was no longer possible and mankinds' relationship with God became purely spiritual.

God is relational

adjective
concerning the way in which two or more people or things are connected.

Jesus and God are connected - fully - spiritually and are in each others presence physically ... they are one in perfect divine character.

Anyone that has in the past and do today spiritually connect with God/Jesus and remain/remained connected (spiritually) are His adopted sons and daughters ... His children

Belief in God/Jesus is spiritual ... until His entire plan of salvation is fully completed (physically) then at that time once again we will be connected spiritually and will physically dwell in His presence ... and for eternity. AMEN

Jesus is the only TRUE son of God and through Him we are welcomed (via divine adoption) into the family of God and will become one.

Go Read John, Chapter 17 in it's entirety.

God Bless ... and may all choose to be and stay connected with our Lord and become one with Him. Amen.
 
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Yes, we have Acts 17:28, where Paul says we all are God's offspring.

But Paul also says those led by the Holy Spirit are the children of God > Romans 8:14. Plus, "Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His," in Romans 8:9.

And our Apostle Paul says "we all once" "were by nature children of wrath, just as the others," in Ephesians 2:3.

In Acts 17:38, it appears to me that the Greek word for "children" or "offspring" has to do with causing to be. God has caused us to be; this is true of all humans. Paul in context with this says all of us have our being in God. He says this in order to show how close humans are to God, and so ones can feel for Him and find Him. He does not say all are in sharing in love with God.

But in Romans 8:14, the Greek word means "children" and this word seems to mean people who are sharing in family love.

So, not all humans have been adopted to God, through Jesus. Jesus is clear > no one can come to our Father except through Jesus > John 14:6. Has Pope Francis said this, plainly and clearly? I don't know.
 
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What do you think? Do we have to receive Christ and believe in his name to become Children of God? Or are we already Children of God? God Bless :)

(Is this the official teaching of the Catholic Church?)

Bible teaches that not all are God’s children.

He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
1 John 3:7-10
 
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The idea that all human beings are God's children is hardly alien from Scripture, St. Paul quotes the Greek poet who says, "For we are His offspring" (Acts 17:28).

This is a different sense from what we usually see in the New Testament, which speaks of our new birth and our adoption as God's sons and daughters in Christ.

The one doesn't exclude the other.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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The idea that all human beings are God's children is hardly alien from Scripture, St. Paul quotes the Greek poet who says, "For we are His offspring" (Acts 17:28).
Even as I elaborated 'a bit more' to, a few posts earlier.

PSA 139:13 For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

No one else has answered me fully, and your post only does so partly. So I'll ask your opinion.
Does the bible mean just David? Just Jews? Or just everyone?
This is a different sense from what we usually see in the New Testament, which speaks of our new birth and our adoption as God's sons and daughters in Christ.

The one doesn't exclude the other.

-CryptoLutheran

In your opinion, how do they complement one another?

So what does "that which is born of the Spirit is the spirit", mean to you? Was your 'birth spirit' not "born of the Spirit" and from that day on, in need of rebirth...or only after the "grieving" "quenching" of 'first sin'? :scratch:

ECC 11:5 As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

So, another thought, was the "prodigal son" not a son when he left the Father? And of course all the preachers preach the son returning was equivalent to getting saved. Hmmm, methinks the river doth run deeper than many think. Not that I'm claiming to have plumbed it depths either, mind you.
 
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