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a lot of people have "missed" it because your summary is what they have been taught, but that's not the shape or focus of scripture at all.Grumpy Old Man said:The entire New Testament begs to differ. It's basically about Jesus dying so people can avoid hell when they die and get to heaven instead. You've either read an entirely different New Testament from me, or you're seeing something in there that the vast majority of people who've read it have missed.
I could hardly agree less. Jesus declined to do politics in the expected way, but he engages in political action and teaching a the time. Which is the only reason anyone would actually get upset with him.From my reading of the Bible, I would agree with your interpretation on the Old Testament. God was seemingly more interested in the natural world and sorting it out, than in the spiritual one. However, in the New Testament, this changes. Jesus himself has no political designs and even says so to the disciples when they ask. Jesus was more concerned with our inner morality and thought life.
because God's aim is putting the world and it's people to rights. Children are as much part of that as anyone else. Age of accountability is only needed as a get-out-of-jail-free card if one had over-individualized the whole thing and put in some other absolute stumbling block (usually a requirement to explicitly and verbally pray the sinners prayer or some equivalent notion).I agree that the Bible doesn't seem to differentiate between adult and child. God's mercy and violent wrath are extended to both equally. I suppose my question now is, how can one worship such a God?
my child is, by baptism, a member of the people of God to whom his covenant promises apply. You were asking about Islamic children.If your child dies today, you have no guarantee that he/she will be in heaven when your own time is up.
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