What If You Had Been Born Hitler???

crakjak · #1 02-26-2007, 05:43 PM

How many of you believe that you are a more worthy candidate for salvation than Hitler was?

Bear in mind that, unlike Hitler, none of us here have the power of a modern state at our disposal, so the amount of harm we can do is in that sense limited by the grace of God.

If we get angry with someone in this forum, for example, we might say something nasty, but we are in no position to send the Gestapo after the person who offends us. Nor are we in a position, such as Hitler was, where our own weaknesses and prejudices can easily be transformed into political terror. The same weaknesses and prejudices may in fact be there, but we do not have available to us the same means of expressing them that Hitler had available to him.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," said Lord Acton. But few of us have experienced even the temptations of political power, much less the temptations of "absolute" tyrannical power.

So how many here are utterly confident that in Hitler's precise circumstances you would have come off any better than he did?

Just wondering.

By: T. Talbott

Arphaxad · #2 02-26-2007, 05:54 PM

What If You Had Been Born Hilter???

If I had been born Hitler, than I would have been Hitler, and it would have all been the same. (no attacking Russia though, that was dumb).

OneAccord · #3 02-26-2007, 06:17 PM

Hitler was a sinner in need of a Savior. Just like me. Like me he needed to be reborn and surrender his life to Jesus Christ. The atrocities he committed were the results of unbelief in the same way my past sins were a result of my unbelief. I often think of David and King Saul. David committed adultery, he was responsible for the death of another human being, yet, he found a place of repentance. King Saul, on the other hand, offended God by "modifying" His command, by not fulfilling God's command to the letter. Yet, we find that Saul never did return to the Lord and, in fact died for his wrong. In my human reasoning, it seems Davids sin was much worse, yet God forgave David. And, again, with human reasoning, my sins pale in comparison to those of Hitler. But, maybe I don't see things the way God does. Sin is sin in God's eyes. So, really, is there a real difference between us and Hitler? Yeah, there is. God extended His grace and mercy to us and we submitted to Him. Hitler didn't. And thats the only difference between me and Mr. Hitler.

Neck · #4 02-26-2007, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by crakjak

How many of you believe that you are a more worthy candidate for salvation than Hitler was?

Bear in mind that, unlike Hitler, none of us here have the power of a modern state at our disposal, so the amount of harm we can do is in that sense limited by the grace of God.

If we get angry with someone in this forum, for example, we might say something nasty, but we are in no position to send the Gestapo after the person who offends us. Nor are we in a position, such as Hitler was, where our own weaknesses and prejudices can easily be transformed into political terror. The same weaknesses and prejudices may in fact be there, but we do not have available to us the same means of expressing them that Hitler had available to him.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," said Lord Acton. But few of us have experienced even the temptations of political power, much less the temptations of "absolute" tyrannical power.

So how many here are utterly confident that in Hitler's precise circumstances you would have come off any better than he did?

Just wondering.

By: T. Talbott

I guess at Judgement day the Lord God would say off to hell you devil..

Malvaro · #5 02-26-2007, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Neckstadt

I guess at Judgement day the Lord God would say off to hell you devil..

do you say that about other peoples' souls as well???

Steve Epley · #6 02-26-2007, 06:21 PM

The passage come to me "avoid foolish questions."

berkeley · #7 02-26-2007, 06:22 PM

If I was born Hitler..... I'd have almost obliterated some jews...

what is the point of this thread?

SDG · #8 02-26-2007, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Berkeley

If I was born Hitler..... I'd have almost obliterated some jews...

what is the point of this thread?

I think the point is ... was Hitler savable.

Neck · #9 02-26-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Malvaro

do you say that about other peoples' souls as well???

Not until the sum of their acts are laid to rest. If we can suggest a person has made their salvation election sure at a funeral. We can suggest a man as Hitler will be hitting the bluist portion of Eternity's flames.

I am only a sinner saved by Grace and by the acceptace that their is a God.

Hitler on the other hand thought of himself as God.

Thank God for Roosevelt and Churchill...

Neck · #10 02-26-2007, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

I think the point is ... was Hitler savable.

The question was answered by Hitler himself.

He choose by free will not to accept God in anyway.

The weird thing one of his Grandmothers was 1/4 Jew from one of her Grand parents.

He was thought to have found this out within the last months of his life...

Even God knew he was a natural disaster, He was born with one testicle...

If he would have been a wilderbeast in Africa the Lions would have eaten him first...