We are Literal Children of God

Man, a Spirit Child of Heavenly Father
See also Man, Antemortal Existence of; Spirit Body; Worth of Souls
Num. 16: 22
God of the spirits of all flesh.
Deut. 14: 1
Ye are the children of the Lord your God.
Job 32: 8
there is a spirit in man.
Job 33: 4
breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Ps. 82: 6
Ye are gods . . . children of the most High.
Eccl. 12: 7
the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Isa. 42: 5
he that giveth breath . . . and spirit to them that walk.
Hosea 1: 10
Ye are the sons of the living God.
Mal. 2: 10
Have we not all one father.
Matt. 5: 48
(3 Ne. 12: 40) Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father.
Matt. 6: 9
(3 Ne. 13: 9) Our Father which art in heaven.
Acts 17: 29
we are the offspring of God.
Rom. 8: 16
Spirit itself beareth witness . . . we are the children of God.
Eph. 4: 6
One God and Father of all.
Heb. 12: 9
be in subjection unto the Father of spirits.
1 Ne. 17: 36
he hath created his children.
Alma 40: 11
spirits . . . taken home to that God who gave them life.
D&C 46: 26
from God, for the benefit of the children of God.
D&C 76: 24
inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters of God.
D&C 77: 2
spirit of man in the likeness of his person.
D&C 84: 83
your Father, who is in heaven, knoweth.
D&C 88: 15
spirit and the body are the soul of man.
D&C 88: 75
I may testify unto your Father, and your God.
D&C 93: 33
man is spirit.
Moses 3: 5
God, had created all the children of men.
Moses 6: 51
I made the world, and men before they were in the flesh.
Abr. 3: 22
intelligences that were organized before the world.
See also Luke 23: 46; Acts 7: 59; Eph. 3: 14-15; Eph. 5: 1.