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To: Kolokotronis; The_Reader_David; Mad Dawg; kosta50
FK: "Ah, then we see the concept of "God's children" very differently."

Sadly, it appears we do. It seems we don't simply worship differently from you, we worship a different God.

Well that sounds pretty drastic. I wouldn't go that far, ........ yet. :) What about this issue is a tipping point for you? What is your interpretation of verses like the following? :

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

Rom 8:18-21 : 18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God .

Phil 2:14-15 : 14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe ...

1 John 3:1-2 : 3:1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God ! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God , and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

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

Is the Bible not clear in distinguishing that some are the children of God and some are not?

10,410 posted on 02/14/2007 6:58:12 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper; Kolokotronis; The_Reader_David; Mad Dawg
What about this issue is a tipping point for you? What is your interpretation of verses like the following? : ...

The KJV calls angels in Job 2:1 "sons of God" as well.

10,429 posted on 02/14/2007 8:42:35 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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