Does god adopt (inspired by an answer to another question)?

Question

Buddy... after being called illogical by that poster...I simply corrected his spelling error.

Please dont assume to know what I believe.

Answer 1

Save your right of centre bs. People are people and humanity is the new land.

Answer 2

You were always God's child, but you were born with free will. You must go back to the Lord, and be adopted into His family (not literally) in order to be saved.

EDIT: it's most certainly not a crime. A true Christian needs to ask questions in order to understand. You are not questioning the Lord God, but are trying to understand His words. I think it's very important to try to understand, that's why I have so many questions, too.

Answer 3

We were lost. The prince of this world is Satan.

Answer 4

The worlds. Slaves to our own sinful nature. Slaves of sin.

Answer 5

All people are not 'children of God'. When we become Christians, we are adopted into God's family.

If you read the verses surrounding the ones you quoted, you will see that God was talking about the Jewish people, who were God's chosen people. God is saying that They are the original 'olive tree' and Christians have been grafted into it.

Jesus called the Pharisees the Children of the devil.

We become children of God by choice, not by virtue of being born into humanity. Only those who choose to be can claim to be a Child of God.

Answer 6

I would suspect the translation. If we could read the original Greek - it may not be the actual word "adopt" .  Or it might be that the verb has the connotations of adoption but means even more than that.....  

That the problem of translating a supposedly divine text.  Things don't always have the same meaning from culture to culture.  

Answer 7

We were spiritual orphans, actually.  Then we were born again of spirit.

The old covenant, you had to be born into as an heir of Abraham or be adopted by conversion.

The New covenant, we are born and adopted.

Answer 8

Childeren of the devil in a spiritual sense.

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

So you are finally admitting to being an athiest rather than a Christian. You have said many times that you are a Christian.

Answer 9

IF we are adopted...then whose kids were we prior to the adoption?

1 John 3:7  Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.  8  He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.  9  Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.  10  In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

Answer 10

What a dumb question.  Who's kids were abandoned children (orphans parents abandoned or parents died on 'em) before they were adopted?  

I believe you're a Christian.  You're not logical at all.

I'm Atheist!

Add: NO, it's "Who's" because I'm right about everything all the time.

I'm Atheist!