Sure, blame your parents.
haha they are not my ancestors
but you blame actual historic figures for the trouble they caused
why not a and e?
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Sure, blame your parents.
The way I understand this is that God is "allowing" the children to suffer the "consequences" of the sins of the father, but this is only because the children themselves are following in the footsteps of the father.You're right, we should blame the god who thinks that it's acceptable to punish the children for the sins of the father.
The way I understand this is that God is "allowing" the children to suffer the "consequences" of the sins of the father, but this is only because the children themselves are following in the footsteps of the father.
We all like the taste of forbidden fruits, I guess.
Where is the tree? Did I eat from its fruit? Did you? When?The way I understand this is that God is "allowing" the children to suffer the "consequences" of the sins of the father, but this is only because the children themselves are following in the footsteps of the father.
We all like the taste of forbidden fruits, I guess.
Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve liked the taste of forbidden fruits too, you know.haha they are not my ancestors
but you blame actual historic figures for the trouble they caused
why not a and e?
That's what you get for following in the forbidden footsteps of your ancestors.so thoughtful for me to be allowed to suffer 16 hours of painful labour.
That's what you get for following in the forbidden footsteps of your ancestors.
Y-chromosomal Adam and Mitochondrial Eve liked the taste of forbidden fruits too, you know.
That's what you get for following in the forbidden footsteps of your ancestors.
Why not? Is there an interpretation manual authored by God?
Well, the Orthodox church which is major religion here asserts that they are the manual for the interpretation. This at least sounds more reasonable than everybody popping up with their interpretation.If there is its probably written in aramaic and you have to interpret it....
Perhaps God cannot do anything about it since it would violate His eternal purpose and such a violation would degrade Him as God since He would be violating His own purpose.
So Ireland (87% Roman Catholic) should, by your logic, be as badly-off as Uganda, if not worse. Things aren't great here, but it's hardly gotten to that stage.
Now, on to a point made by myself and a few other posters, what is the proportion of "True Christians (TM)" in countries such as the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark? Or Spain, or Italy? There is absolutely no correlation between being what you would call a True Christian, and economic prosperity.
The correlation is true Christians praying and GOD bringing about economic prosperity through many different venues.
Parents aren't to blame for their children's actions, but it is a fairly awful parent who would let their child starve to death for not loving them enough.
"]But if the parents send help and the children refuse to partake of that help. There's not much the parents can do but help those of their children that will.
He could do it any way he wanted. Whatever the ramifications of plentiful food for everyone, there is pretty much no way it could be worse than millions starving to death, or killing each other over resources.
Now, you can imagine that but you don't know that do?
Incidentally, if all of Africa were to become True Christians tomorrow, how would God solve the situation? Presumably you think he'd be able to. So why would he be justified in withholding this cure just because people aren't worshipping him properly?
Even if they all became True Christians (which is most unlikely) it would take time to turn around the whole country with God's intervention because He only works through men and women. BUT that is not to say that IF people cried unto Him who were starving or dying He would not miraculously heal them and send the food miraculously. He fed the Israelites manna in the wilderness and sent them quail to eat. That would take a nation turning to God, though, for national miracles to happen. Individuals on the other hand could see miracles in their own personal lives, too. But for a nation to turn around as a whole and become prosperous, that nation would have to, also, turn to God. Just as Israel as a nation served God and as America (though, not all were Christians) as a nation we began and built the country on Biblical principles. But as I said and history proves, the nation that turns from God begins to fail. When a president stands up and says America is no longer a Christian nation ... he is not helping the country but opening it up for a fall. Not to say that America was headed in that direction before he said it. People have tried to remove God from this country for quite awhile and the more we let go of God the more we lose our standing, prosperity, strength, etc. etc.
Not true. I was born and grew up in Africa.
So what exactly is NOT true.
This is not true. I have personally seen people die of hunger and they were true Christians.
Droughts, natural disasters, plagues, etc. ad infinitum; And yet you insist it is not God's work?
Yes, I do.
You live in your comfortable and plentiful world and yet you pass judgement on the poor and destitute as easily as waving your hand.
I also, spoke of impending judgement on the USA if they leave God.
I am afraid that your words do more to dissuade people from Christianity than anything science can come up with.
Talk about hypocrites... I've have heard it said over and over all over the web and here that because of science they could not believe in God or Christianity. Make up your mind is it me or is the evidence of science?
800,000 Christians were slaughtered in Rwanda. Many were massacred in Churches by fellow Christians.
the death toll of WW1 run in the tens of millions and yet it was between Christian nations that conducted this slaughter.
WW2; Same story.
Hypocrites and Pharisees!
could you please explain how all those European countries with <40% believers in God manage to be so prosperous?
Like Ar Cosc said, why isn't Europe suffering the same destitution? Estonia, Czech Republic, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Netherlands, Latvia, Slovenia, Iceland, and the UK all have <40% of their population believe in a God. So why are these places consistently on the "best places to live" lists? Apparently fountains of blessing don't necessarily follow high rates of belief in God and pain and suffering don't follow large rates of disbelief...
As I have already explained, It has to do with many factors, it is not only the believers in a country, it is the nations government position towards God, along with the level of demonology, false gods and just how deep they go into these. Supporting Israel has to do with it, also. And maybe you better look again at the prosperity of ALL those European countries.
No True Scotsman fallacy aside, actually Uganda is predominantly not Catholic, as your own stats show - 42% protestant.
Do you even read your copy-pastes before you put them in?
So Saudi Arabia's prosperity has to do with what, exactly?
I still find it absolutely crazy that you're saying all those people in Africa deserve to starve to death for not being christian enough. It's nearly impossible to get my head around.