Thanks to our conversation, I thought, read and prayed more about this and I can only say that I was wrong.
The Body of Christ = the church The church = believers Believers, therefore = the Body of Christ
Blushing in my humility, I stand corrected.
Thanks for the honesty to admit your error, but how long have you been on these threads? How could you NOT have seen this before? Were these RC's that taught you that everyone is a child of God? You should have also realized this by reading the Scriptures, Jesus and the apostles taught clearly that some are adopted as children of God and some are not.
Yes, I know it seems real basic, but I guess I've never given a whole lot of thought to that detail. How long have you been on these threads? I know you've been here long enough to know that I was brought up in a protestant church. And it's not a matter of being taught wrong, it's a matter of my own incorrect opinion on who or what makes up the Body of Christ.
But you bring up a different point ... how can you say we are not all God's children? Yes, we are His children as He created us. We, however, have a choice whether or not we become a part of the Body. There is a difference (see my above admittance of my mistaken understanding).