Christ First Forum

Love Worth Finding - Feb. 11, 2009

February 11

God the Father & God the Creator
“…that we may be partakers of the divine nature...” 2 Peter 1:4

Have you heard the phrase, “The universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of men”? It sounds warm and fuzzy, but it is cold and barren of truth.

God is not the Father of all people; God is the Father of those who are born into His family. But you say, “But, Pastor, didn’t God create all human beings?” Yes. “And if God created all human beings, wouldn’t that make God the Father of all human beings?” No, it makes God the Creator of all human beings.

There’s a difference between fatherhood and creation. God created rats, roaches, buzzards, and rattlesnakes. He’s not their father. God becomes our Father not by creation but by conception when we’re born into His family.

Read the story of creation in Genesis, making the distinction between the creations of God and the Creator called God. Go on a nature walk and thank God that He rules over creation causing the sun to shine, the rain to water the earth, and for you to have your next breath.

http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/loveworthfinding/

From my study of the Word, Adam and Eve were created 'innocent.' Innocence is not 'righteousness.' Innocence cannot become Righteousness until tested. If Adam and Eve had stood the test, they would have become righteous or holy. They failed and became sinners. Adam and Eve took the step from innocence to sin and became sinners. Now man cannot become holy without the new birth called salvation.

Base on my study of the Word, God created all human beings,but because of the fall of Adam and Eve, man has to be redeem or reborn unto Christ.

It's amazing how one word or one phrase can change the truth.

Satan is good about using part of the Word,and add his lies so to confuse~

That's why we have groups of people worshiping the 'creation' instead of the 'creator.'

This is a false religion surfacing the US.

Global warming is redistribution,but it's also those who worship creation instead of the creator~

Without the truth of Scripture, the "warm and fuzzy" sucks us into it's deadly grasp! That's what is happening in the world today. Christians do not know the Bible and it makes them sitting ducks for satan's Scripture twisting. We need to wake up because knowing Scripture is the only way that we will survive the coming mess.