Children of the Same God?

Mitt Romney (left) as a Mormon missionary.

"We're a nation that believes we're all children of the same God."

-Mitt Romney, first presidential debate, October 3, 2012

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. If you look at Mormon beliefs, his above quote fits in with that religion's worldview.

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, known as the Mormons, teaches that God the Father used to be a man on another planet, that he became a God by following the laws and ordinances of that God on that planet and came to this world with his wife (she became a goddess), and that they produce a spirit offspring in heaven.  These spirit offspring, which includes Jesus, the devil, and you and me, are all brothers and sisters born in the preexistence.  These preexistence spirits come down and inhabit babies at the time of birth and their memories of the preexistence are lost at the time.  Furthermore, faithful Mormons, who pay a full 10% tithe of their income to the Mormon church through Mormon temples, have the potential of becoming gods of their own planets and are then able to start the procedure over again." (Matt Slick, 'Mormon Beliefs, are they Christian?')

So it would make sense for Mitt Romney to say that he "believes we're all the children of the same God". But it is unbiblical to say that all people are the children of God. The Bible says:

"But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood, or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but of God." (John 1:12-13)

"All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father!' The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children." (Romans 8:15-16)

Only those who are born of God are God's children. Everybody else are children of the devil (John 8:44) and children of wrath (Ephesians 2:3).

Romney cannot assert that all Americans believe in the same God. I believe in the God of Christianity who has revealed Himself through His written Word, known as the Holy Bible. Romney believes in a deity from the planet Kolob. Muslims believe in Allah. Atheists choose not to acknowledge the God who created them.

In the end, all that matters is what God says. Jesus made it clear when He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6) "...the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:23b)

Do you need God?