ContradictionsReading order 295Bible context 4 min read
Are we all God's children?
The passages use divine parenthood both for human origin and for an exclusive religious identity that denies the status to outsiders.
- Textual conflict
- Weak tension
- The alleged conflict needs substantial assumptions, such as treating an omission as a denial or figurative language as literal.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Divine offspring by origin and divine children by belief or moral allegiance are different senses of kinship.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
People are described as God's offspring and children
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Deuteronomy 14:1
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Deuteronomy 14
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms 82:6
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Psalms 82