What does it mean to address God as “My Father”?First, there is a general sense in which God is a Father of all people, since they are His offspring as Creator. Paul spoke of this to the pagans at Athens in Acts But the Bible also teaches that ever since the human race rebelled against God, sinning in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), all of us enter life alienated from God. In fact, Jesus told the unbelieving Jews that they were of their father, the devil (John It is only when a person is born spiritually by God’s will and power that one becomes a child of God in the true sense. John You need to be born again. (Ephesians