His Family
His Family includes great diversity, containing: Spirit Beings, Human Beings, Other Beings, Jews, Gentiles, and The Church.
His family began in heaven and was extended to the Earth. It is one big, grand family.
Eph. 3:14-15
[14] For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
[15] Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
Spirit Beings
It seems that the beginning of God's creation started with His Heavenly Family. These are Spirit beings, like and lesser than Himself. They occupy a dimension that human beings do not normally perceive.
These are called God's Sons or sons of God. They are sometimes called angels which means messengers. Sometimes they are referred to as watchers or living creatures. They are also referred to as stars in the heavens.
Sometimes when they appear on Earth they appear like men and they are referred to as men. Usually something happens that reveals that they are indeed "super-men". sometimes people think that they are God and will fall down to worship them. If they are indeed Holy beings they will always refuse to be worshiped. These loyal sons of God are identified as as elect angels.
Human Beings
Human Beings were made a little lower than the angels but still made to be in the image of the Creator. We were made to be like God.
This is why we can communicate with God. We were made to fellowship with Him. This is also why men are incurably religious (as someone has stated). Man will worship something or someone, even if it is the wrong something or someone.
Other Beings
But wait, there's more! At least there could be more and it makes sense that there would be more, because we have been created by a limitless God.
Jews
Jews is a word or the name used to refer in general to Israelites, more particularly to those from Judah (the southern Kingdom that began after the divide following the death of King Solomon). A person could be Jewish by ancestry or by religious conversion. They could alsobe considered a Jew practically and spiritually by having faith in the most High God.
The northern kingdom was destroyed by Assyria and the people were carried away captive and spread across the Earth. Unlike the kingdom of Judah, that was carried away captive to Babylon, there was no return of those that had been removed by the Assyrians like Judah experienced in it's return from Exile in Babylon.
Gentiles
Gentiles is the word that is used to refer to any person that is not Jewish. The Hebrew word that is translated into "gentile" is also translated as nations or foreigners.
Thus, the overwhelming population of the Earth are gentiles.
The Church
The Church of Jesus Christ is every person that has believed on Him and followed Him by being baptized, thus declaring themselves to be followers of the Christ. In Christ it matters not whether you are Jew or Gentile, rich or poor, free or slave, male or female, black or white, green or orange, striped or polka-dotted, we are all ONE in Christ's Church.
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