God loves everyone?
NO, we are not all God's children. That's a false belief of many in modern times, and shows they dont understand who we are nor who God is. To explain.... Humanity fits in only two categories: 1. By nature (before salvation): ● Because of the Fall, all humans are “dead in trespasses and sins” (Eph. 2:1). ● Paul says unbelievers are “children of wrath” (Eph. 2:3) and that they follow “the prince of the power of the air” (Eph. 2:2), which is Satan. ● Jesus Himself told some of the Pharisees, “You are of your father the devil” (John 8:44). → So in that sense, Christianity teaches that outside of Christ, people are in bondage to sin, under Satan’s dominion, and can rightly be described as his children. 2. By grace (after salvation): ● When God saves someone, they are adopted into His family (Rom. 8:15–17, Gal. 4:4–7). ● Only in Christ do we truly become children of God (John 1:12). This is why adoption is a central theme in Christian soteriology: we’re transferred from the fam...