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Lv 5

"he gave his only begotten son" or "we're all god's children"?

which is it? if we're all god's children that means he gave his kid to a bunch of his kids to kill so they can have everlasting life,huh? if jesus is god's only child,what are we to him?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Nemesis could be another name for Satan. The key to your answer lies in the meaning and timing of the word "begotten". I just don't think a nemesis will understand that.

  • 1 decade ago

    In a church, all the people in it are " the children of the pastor or priest"... he is called Father. Not a real dad, or father.... that is just a metaphor. And we are all God's children, in that sense.

    In a class room filled with children, the teacher considers them "her children" ...does that then mean that she produced all of them and that they are actually hers?

    If you do not understand something, it is best to ask, but not ask if you just want to make statements you do not know anything about.

    My sister used to ask me questions about computers. I would try to answer them, but with her not knowing anything at all about computers, it was very difficult. So, I got her a book on basics of computers, to read. She didn't read it. She still doesn't know anything about them.

    But she still asks the questions.

    So, I am in the same predicament with these type of questions. It would be best to ask someone who is qualified in the field, and not here, for not many know as much as they think they do.

    Those that do answer, are biased, and therefore the answers will be what THEY want you to hear. Be it the truth or not, it will be their answer.

    We are ALL Gods' children, just as the teacher has "her children" and Jesus is actually God's son.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Look up the word "begotten". It doesn't say His only Son. It says His only begotten Son. Yes, we are all God's children, but Jesus was the only one born of God and woman.

  • Ricky
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Jesus is God's true only-begotten Son we are children by adoption. (cf.Romans 8:23)

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  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Jesus is God's only son. Everything else was created by God. Jesus is a part of God, literally.

    When Christian's say they are all God's Children, it is in an adoptive sense. It's a lot like marriage too (as in, children-in-law). Jesus gave his life's blood to purchase his Bride (the church). All Christians form the body of the Church.

    God bless

    Source(s): Christian
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Many people cannot understand why an innocent person suffered for our sins; why God cannot simply be merciful and overlook our sins. He is righteous (just); absolutely, perfectly just. You could never meet His demands for justice on your own. He gave you life and all you have. He has every right to demand perfection. You need a sacrifice that He will accept; that only He could provide. If He begets a Son who is perfect in every way, sinless, as the Father in Heaven is, only then would there be a sacrifice big enough to pay for all your sins, even the sins of as many as trust in Him. That Son proved He was fully God by raising Himself from the dead. If you accept eyewitness testimony concerning any other person of history, logic demands you must also accept the eyewitness testimony concerning Jesus’ resurrection. It would be admissible evidence in any court of law today and proves all His claims true. Jesus becomes your perfect sacrifice when you trust His sufferings on the cross took the punishment your sins deserved. Jesus alone is the Father’s appointed way for making people right with Him. Only Jesus’ perfect sacrifice is big enough to completely satisfy the just demands of the Father in Heaven that you be perfect as He is perfect. Without the Savior, you have no hope, none! Receiving the Father’s forgiveness begins when you confess your sins to Him and turn from them. Ask His forgiveness. He will. Then trust Jesus took the punishment your sins deserved, on His cross. Jesus shared fully in the nature and substance of God the Father. The sacrifice that Jesus, God the Son, made on the cross was big enough to assure all who trust in Him will receive eternal life and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to do what He commands. It is why so many of us love and serve the Savior with a passion. So can you! It is truly life-transforming!

    Read what the Bible says about Jesus-the perfect sacrifice, John 1:29; 1 John 3:5; 1 John 2:2; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 1:18-19; 1 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 9:28

  • Moi
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    "begotten" is the key to understanding.

    We Christians are children of God BY ADOPTION

    Gal 4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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    Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

    Eph 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

    Eph 1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

  • phrog
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    both.

    Jesus is the only one God 'begot' on earth. the rest of us have mortal parents.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    WE R HIS KIDS

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