Ok, I believe you, God created the angels called the "sons of god". They were and are spirit beings created by God. That's what this discussion is all about. So I agree with you that God created spirit beings and called them angels. As far as anyone is concerned angels could also be called "spirit children of God". Especially since at least some of them are called
"the sons of God" (are sons not children?).
The above and the last quote in this post I agree.
*See bottom quote
It may not mean, but then again it just may mean. How do you know this spirit is not a spirit child of God yet to be born in the flesh. Whether he is a good or bad spirit really isn't the point, the point is he was a spirit and he was only one of the **host of spirits that were surrounding the throne of God. This scripture supports my view that there were spirits surrounding the Throne of God, and one of them came forward and was sent on a task by God.
Have you found any other scriptures that would support "spirit children"?
I think that post was in response to this
(I'm trying to make this short by not quoting all of what we previously posted for the sake of the reader.) Then you wrote....
It looks like you have done some study on this subject and I appreciate your study. But your study seems to be one-sided. Now I would like you to consider studying this subject again as if you believed it were true and give me all the scriptures in the bible that would support it. Then your study will be complete, but not until you do this will you be justified in your belief.
Let me give you an example:
1 Kings 22:19&21
19 ...I saw the Lord sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him...
Here we are given a special insight that there are spirit beings around God and his throne. So give me an explanation as to where you think these spirits came from and just who they were? **Are these spirit children of God?
So justify your first study that says there are not spirit children by locating scriptures that say there are spirit children of God. If you find none, then you can say with confidence, I have made my decision, what about you.
Then I finished with 1 Kings 22-23 and answered the question. ** With this
continuing
22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said , I will go forth , and I will be a **lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth , and do so.
23 Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a **lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.
**God sending a deceiving spirit does not mean that he is sending a spirit child that was yet to be born in the flesh. He was merely sending a demonic force and allowing it to perform what was natural to it--to do something that was part of the greater plan of God. God has all power.
So I think I answered your question. Sorry you didn't get it. More explicitly, the scripture you presented didn't really say what you were advocating when adding verses 22 and 23.
You must agree that many spirits were there, not just Jesus. One that we know of surely is Satan and we know that he had millions if not billions of followers (angels)(other spirit beings)(other spirit children of God). Let me know what you think of this.
I would say it "
One that we know of surely "was" Satan instead of "is". other than that, I agree. See beginning of this post *
The following is from your last post. I did it this way fro you to better understand that I thought I had already answered your question.
There are several scriptures that tell us that we are the offspring of God (Acts 17:28-29), and that we are the children of God (Romans 8:16). In fact Romans 8:16 actually says: The Spirit (meaning the Holy Spirit) beareth witness to our spirit that we are the children of God. If the Holy Spirit beareth record to Paul, that we are the children of God, we better be listening to what Paul and the Holy Spirit are teaching us. Being an offspring or a child of God in a literal sense has to have been in a pre-existent state and we would be spirit offspring or children. We know this because there is only one that is the only begotten son of God in the flesh and that is Jesus Christ.
It is very illogical to me that God would created us perfect, and then send us to earth to test our faith, and if we fail, send us away from Him forever. I cannot see the love in that. The following clearly identifies the order of events in God's creation. The highlighted red colored sentence in the following scripture can be read as a question, or a statement. Readers choice.
**You didn't answer my question about many spirits in heaven before the world was created vs one only and that was Jesus.
You must have meant this I think as I read the following Post #424. But I will answer with these scriptures." ***And so it is written , The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven." (1 Corinthians 15:45-47) "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a
living soul." (***Genesis 2:7) Concerning Jesus "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." (Colossians 1:17) Spirit Children were not created before they were born. There is my answer to the question you posed.