All Human Beings Are Children of The God

  A friend of mine posted a video from YouTube today which took issue with the Pope's declaration that we are all children of God regardless of religion.  In this video, he read from the King James Version of John 8:39-45 where Jesus tells the Judeans who declared that Abraham was their father, and then that God was their father, that their father was actually the devil because they sought to murder Him and the devil was a murderer from the beginning. I didn't really get much further into the video because this person seemed to have an antisemitic bent as he made it clear that Jesus was talking to the Jews specifically, and made it sound like all Jews are the children of the devil which is in fact a theological point of certain extreme Christian sects.

     In John's first letter, the Apostle indirectly touches on what Jesus was saying in the third chapter where he says, "Every person making their home in Him does not error; every person who errors hasn't seen Him neither known Him. Children, don't let anyone lead you to wander away; the person doing the right state of being is right, just like that One is right; the person doing the error is from the devil, beccause the devil errored from the beginning. ... Every person having been born from the God does not do the error, because His sperm makes its home within him, and he isn't capable of erring, because he has been born from God. With this the children of the God of the devil are apparent; every person not doing the right state of being is not from God, also the person not loving his brother."

     So, what are Jesus and John talking about here? Every human being carries the "Imago Dei," the image of God, just as Jesus Christ is the image of God. Just as Jesus Christ is the Logos, so every human being carries a piece or "shred" of that logos. Every human being is in fact a child of God. 

     The problem comes in where not every human being (probably most human beings) is connected to the Head, that is, the Logos. Imagine a body with all the nervous system wiring which connects each body part to the brain. Now imagine that some parts of that body aren't receiving signals from the brain and are therefore paralyzed and unable to function. They are no less a part of the body, but they are unable to communicate with the Head.

     Those who operate from their malfunctioning flesh, who are governed by their fear, aggression, and bodily cravings are in fact paralyzed where the Head is concerned. The signals are being blocked because when this threat response system is in control, when fear is governing our thinking, responses, and words, it becomes next to impossible to love. When the survival response system, which is entirely based in our flesh, takes over that part of us which is not flesh becomes blocked.  God is love, and love becomes obstructed by fear just as love brought to completion tosses fear out. By choosing to be governed by this system, we choose to not respond to the Head. 

     When Jesus and John describe the "children of the devil," they are trying to make a point. The devil errored from the beginning. The devil has been governed by fear and aggression, and has thus been a murderer from the beginning. When we choose to be governed by our fear, we are choosing to follow in the devil's footsteps. When we choose to be aggressive, angry, and hateful, and when we choose to be governed by our bodily cravings and attachments we are following in the devil's footsteps like children following a kidnapper who raises them like an abusive, criminal parent.

     When we choose to be governed by the Imago Dei, the logos, the Spirit of Christ; when we choose to love and allow God's love to flow through us, then we are being who we truly are and functioning with a right state of being as born children of the God. The Imago Dei is not capable of error. The malfunctioning and erroneous flesh is not capable of a right state of being. We choose whom we follow, our Father from birth, or the kidnapper masquerading as our father.

     All human beings are children of God, regardless of their religious beliefs, but not all human beings are choosing the path of their natural born Father, but the path of their deceiver and kidnapper.