Wait, wait, wait.......you think that God engineered the slaughter of millions of Jews as punishment for rejecting Christ???????????????????????????????
My anger at this idiocy couldn't be expressed strongly enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not that I agree with it, but that idea falls in step Biblically with other similar works of God.
If the majority of Christians believe in a God that will send billions of people to Hell for not choosing Him, why can't Dedicated Mind believe that He allowed 10 million Jews to die for rejecting the Messiah?
But he intervenes to prevent car accidents, right?
Sure. Especially if the accident would involve a woman driver who has never cut her hair.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Smith
Good heavens. Surely you jest.
You wouldn't believe the number of times I've heard it preached and taught that if bad things happen, you must be either being punished or tested by God. The Bible, especially Job, but also the stories of David, Joseph... even Stephen doesn't support that theory, though.
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Originally Posted by Twisp
If the majority of Christians believe in a God that will send billions of people to Hell for not choosing Him, why can't Dedicated Mind believe that He allowed 10 million Jews to die for rejecting the Messiah?
2000 years after the crucifixion, no less, and even those who were Christian converts or who were not Jews but protected and/or hid Jews, and gypsies, and...
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Wait, wait, wait.......you think that God engineered the slaughter of millions of Jews as punishment for rejecting Christ???????????????????????????????
My anger at this idiocy couldn't be expressed strongly enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you anger easily?
God didn't allow millions into the promised land because of murmering and unbelief. They were ungratefull.
2000 years after the crucifixion, no less, and even those who were Christian converts or who were not Jews but protected and/or hid Jews, and gypsies, and...
Biblically, the Lord has allowed harm towards innocents to make a point, so Dedicated Mind is still on solid Biblical ground.
Biblically, the Lord has allowed harm towards innocents to make a point, so Dedicated Mind is still on solid Biblical ground.
I personally think that the immediate punishment thing is an old testament process. I think that now, He's not willing that any perish prior to repentance, and that judgment will be deferred.
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I personally think that the immediate punishment thing is an old testament process. I think that now, He's not willing that any perish prior to repentance, and that judgment will be deferred.
But there was Ananias and Sapphira, and some people who take communion "unworthily".
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