It is often said that we are all God’s children. Ezekiel 18:4 says, “Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine.” The two statements sound similar, but in reality they are very different.
We belong to God by virtue of the fact that we are His creations, but that does not mean that we are all His children. Because we are God’s, we...