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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Sadly, we are not ALL children of God, but unless we have been forgiven by putting our trust in Jesus Christ, we remain children of wrath. God is indeed a vengeful God, and He will take His vengeance on all who reject the free offer of His son for salvation. But He is also merciful, kind and loving in that He sent Christ to die for our sins while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8). As long as we reject His son, we are God's enemies. But Christ's death on the cross and His resurrection has reconciled to God all those who believe in Him.[/quote]

The sad thing is that you actually believe this.  You are the reason people avoid spirituality and religion.

We absolutely ARE all children of a Divine Creator.  God IS love.   By definition, He (She, It....) is incapable of creating anything but love.  Every person on this planet is inherently good.  That light is there, no matter how hard it is to see.  People have free will and sometimes make bad choices, but humans are by divine creation, good.  God (Source, Creator, First Mover, I Am,  ...) created us "in His image".  Think about what that means.  What is God's image?  Love.

Christ died as a perfect example of sacrificial love.  His death was meant to show that love is unconditional.  His message was one of compassion, forgiveness, inclusiveness, humility, and tolerance.  Christians have been distorting Christianity for hundreds of years.  [/quote]
Christ said to the religious leaders of His day, who refused to accept Him as the Messiah, in John 8:44: "You are of your father, the devil." Even Christ Himself would not say that we are not all God's children. He said, "I and the Father are One" (John 10:30), so that if you reject Him, you reject God.

Jesus taught that unless we come to Him for forgiveness of our sins, we remain in our sins and at odds with God. All God asks is that you recognize and confess this to Him. I choose to believe this because the birth, death and resurrection of Christ was foretold in Scripture for centuries before Christ's birth, which any believer will tell you is part of their cause to accept the authority of the Bible. I don't mean to be argumentative, but I'm not sure where you get your ideas that God is only love and tolerance when you can't even say whether God is He, She or It. Jesus said that "God must be worshipped in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24). The Bible is the only Scripture that recounts a risen Savior for mankind, and all the apostles of Christ except for John died martyrs' deaths. These are men who lived with Christ for three years and knew that He was the Son of God, and they died horrible deaths because they refused to recant their testimony of who Christ was. (I wonder where the inherent goodness of mankind was with those who killed men for their beliefs.) They would have known whether they were just telling fables about Christ, yet they chose to die rather than deny those beliefs. It's not scientific proof, but it's food for thought. I certainly wouldn't give up my life for something I knew wasn't true.

I also believe in Christ because if I examine my own heart, I know that I am indeed [i]not[/i] inherently good, and that I owe God a great debt for everything I've ever done wrong. Happily, He has forgiven me in Christ. Yes, this is a message that turns many people off, but it is the truth, and those who accept it joyfully know that "in love, God predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ." (Ephesians 1:5)[/quote]

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