Lies Preachers Tell #5

One of the most pernicious lies which I've heard from too many pulpits is so simple that no one ever utters it more than one way. It is exactly the same, word- for- word, every time I've heard it. It's as if it's written in some scripture which I don't have and have never seen-- because I have no idea where it comes from, but it's always exactly the same. This simple little fallacy is perhaps the most popular of preachers' lies: "We are all God's children."

This lie is not only contrary to sound doctrine: it is decidedly antichrist as well. It was, after all, none other than Christ who told the Jews of his day the "parable of the tares of the field," in which he describes a field of wheat sown with "good seed," which is to say weedless seed, in which it is later discovered that there are "tares" (which is to say weeds) among the wheat. The field hands who discover the weeds come to the householder they work for, and say, "Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this." (Matthew 13:27 & 28)

Later, his disciples come to Jesus and say, "Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field." Jesus then explains the parable thusly: "He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed [the wheat] are the children of the kingdom; but the tares [the weeds] are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil... " (Matthew 13: 37- 39) Clearly, by this evidence alone, we are not all God's children. If we were, Cain would be God's child, as well, but the apostle John (in 1 John 3:12) rebuffs this notion with the following declaration: "...Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother."

Again, Christ told the Jews of his day, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." (John 8:44) It's simply a lie-- and an antichristian lie, at that-- to say "We are all God's children."