Are We Inherently Good or Evil?

 A falsehood echoed by false ministers within Christianity:  "We are all the children of God."  They believe and teach all human beings  regardless of whether they are Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Jew or atheist, are the children of the "one-God." 

     If this were true, Jesus Christ would not have told the Pharisees (the ruling religious sect over the Jews during His time on Earth): "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do" (John 8:44). St. Paul reminded us of this concept. He told a false prophet named Barjesus he was: "...full of subtlety and all mischief" and "a child of the devil." (Acts 13:10). Those who study the Bible with the assistance of  God's Spirit know there is a distinct difference  between being the creation of God, and becoming the adopted sons and daughters of the Lord. Since we were born after the similitude of Adam and Eve, we are considered by God to be the "children of wrath" (Ephesians 2:3). We do not have the title "Child of God" until we are "born again," as Jesus said we must be if expect to be allowed into Heaven.  (1 Pet. 1:23 KJV:  “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”)The Bible clearly teaches us that if we are only born ONCE, physically, we will die TWICE; both a natural, bodily death and a spiritual one where the soul spends eternity in a place of torment and suffering -- Hell. However, if you have been born TWICE, physically and then again, spiritually, you only have to die ONCE -- the natural physical death of the body only.