I have a question, from a Christian perspective, are we God's Children, or are We God's Creatures?

I've heard both used, I've heard a sermons about both sides, as was wondering, which are we?

Well in the Christian tradition, I'd have to say "children." Christians are taught to pray to God with the prayer "Our Father."

I've heard a sermon from an Episcopalian (sp?) Minister who stated that we are indeed creatrues of God, and shouldn't consider ourselves the children of God, and that the Lord's Prayer isn't a "cure all"

Which is why I asked.

First of all, you can be a child and a creature. According to Christianity (and many other religions), we literally are creatures insofar as we were created by God.

Sure the Lord's prayer isn't a cure all, but it shouldn't be ignored either. Plus, it fits in with themes throughout the Bible--the Israelites as the chosen people, the idea of God knowing us before we were born, with having counted all the hairs on our head. The idea of sacrificing for our redemption. These words and actions are not what we think of when we use the word "creature" and "creator."

Furthermore, there is an overwhelming sense of love in the Bible, a love that is often given in analogy of the parent-child relationship (which happens to be a recurring and important relationship/theme throughout the Bible).

Even atheists have commented on the "Fatherliness" of God. Freud believed that the idea of God was the projection of fatherly archetypes onto some uber-Father figure. Think of our parents--the people who create, protect, punish, reward, and love their children. What is God but the same thing, only without flaw?

I think you really have to turn a blind eye to think that Christianity does not hold God as the Father, and correspondingly, hold people as children.