As christians we know our Father in heaven disciplines us for our own good just as our earthly father did, but His chastening in the end of our life allows us to inherit heaven and to abide with Him for all eternity (Hebrews 12:9-11) Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

I was blessed to have my father for a short time, and when I married could not have asked for a better father in law! For those who may have not had a good father just know God is a heavenly Father on which you can depend, for He knows your heart and mind and every need, and is one who truly loves you with an eternal love.

The bible teaches there are three fathers we encounter in our life. There is our earthly father, and the other two are a matter of life and death depending on which one you serve.

Jesus did not mince words when He was speaking with the Jews who were seeking to kill Him, but it was when they said Abraham was their father that Jesus had to let them know if they were Abrahams seed they would not be seeking to kill Him and explained they were of their father the devil! (John 8:39-47) They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham’s children, ye would do the works of Abraham. But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham. Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

There is no denying after reading the previous passages that satan is the father of those who choose to not do Gods will. And that he is alive and well deceiving many even today (1 John 3:7-11) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.