Both. But god is more violent about it:
The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk. The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT)
2006-06-08 05:35:47
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Well, if you take "acts of God" and cancer, then definitely cancer. But if you are talking about children that God has called home, then He's winning. I don't see the relevance of this question though. Is it supposed to prove some point? Is it supposed to stir up anger that God would kill innocent children? If that's the case, I'd like to hear the eye witness who saw God personally, take the life of a child. Then we could talk.
2006-06-08 12:19:15
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answered by mrsdokter 5
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Cancer
2006-06-08 12:15:28
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answered by Anonymous
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God I guess, he created everything, including cancer. Since god is all powerful and all knowing, he must have known what cancer would do, so you can't really say "He didn't mean it" or "It was an accident". Omnipotent beings don't have accidents, that's the whole point.
I don't even think it goes against Christian doctrine to say it (though it may well go against Christian sensibilities). Life on earth is but the first step on our journey to paradise after all, if we die we should be thankful because next stop is heaven. Or something like that, anyways, that previous sentence is one of the main reasons I'm agnostic :)
2006-06-08 12:21:08
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answered by Anonymous
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God ends the existance on this plane for a better one. God doesn't kill.
Cancer starves the body of things it needs elsewhere. It doesn't kill either. The body just can't keep up.
Doctors! Over 50 million abortions so far and still counting. Now they kill kids! Unborn kids. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and Saddam are jealous. And it's all legal. And anyone who stands up against it is labled stupid, religious nut, or something else.
2006-06-08 12:30:38
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answered by namsaev 6
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God is a creator, a loving entity. God is not vile and he is not responsible for "killing" children. Without going into a long explanation of scriptures and their various, flawed interpretations, I can truly state that the God of my understanding has killed NO children......ever !
However, since death is part of life, God's eternal plan included death for all ..... children and adults. Everyone will experience death. Death can be caused by thousands of ways, and "being killed" is only one way.
The word "kill", means to destroy, deprive of life, to extinguish. The actions of people, not God, cause "killing".
God's plan is eternal life for all of humankind, regardless of religious creeds.
Cancer causes death (not by 'killing'). In the USA alone, 9,510 children are diagnosed each year with cancer, and 1,585 children will die each year of this disease, according to the National Health institute. Cancer deaths in children worldwide might be significantly higher in some countries because of unavailability of treatment.
My guess is that there will be hundreds of traffic fatalities in the USA among children this year. Unless there is negligence and/or illegal action resulting in traffic death (like drunk driving), the children are not "killed" in the wreck ; they "die" from sustained injuries.
The answer to your question requires study, and I have tried to reduce a profound subject/question into simple form ...... I hope you can understand the explanation.
Thank you for your question.
2006-06-08 13:14:27
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answered by SpongebobRoundpants 5
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Job 34:10 Therefore, YOU men of heart, listen to me.
Far be it from the [true] God to act wickedly,
And the Almighty to act unjustly!
11 For [according to] the way earthling man acts he will reward him,
And according to the path of man he will cause it to come upon him.
12 Yes, for a fact, God himself does not act wickedly,
And the Almighty himself does not pervert judgment.
2006-06-08 12:23:44
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answered by AnGeL 4
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God doesnt kill but i would venture more children have been killed in the name of god than have been killed by cancer.just look in the history books in the name of god whole villages were massacured.Want an example?
The First Crusade was launched in 1095 with the battle cry "Deus Vult" (God wills it), a mandate to destroy infidels in the Holy Land. Gathering crusaders in Germany first fell upon "the infidel among us," Jews in the Rhine valley, thousands of whom were dragged from their homes or hiding places and hacked to death or burned alive. Then the religious legions plundered their way 2,000 miles to Jerusalem, where they killed virtually every inhabitant, "purifying" the symbolic city. Cleric Raymond of Aguilers wrote: "In the temple of Solomon, one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses' bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God."
want more? their have been sooo many its unreal .
In the Third Crusade, after Richard the Lion-Hearted captured Acre in 1191, he ordered 3,000 captives -- many of them women and children -- taken outside the city and slaughtered. Some were disemboweled in a search for swallowed gems. Bishops intoned blessings. Infidel lives were of no consequence. As Saint Bernard of Clairvaux declared in launching the Second Crusade: "The Christian glories in the death of a pagan, because thereby Christ himself is glorified."
-- The Assassins were a sect of Ismaili Shi'ite Muslims whose faith required the stealthy murder of religious opponents. From the 11th to 13th centuries, they killed numerous leaders in modern-day Iran, Iraq and Syria. They finally were wiped out by conquering Mongols -- but their vile name survives.
-- Throughout Europe, beginning in the 1100s, tales spread that Jews were abducting Christian children, sacrificing them, and using their blood in rituals. Hundreds of massacres stemmed from this "blood libel." Some of the supposed sacrifice victims -- Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, the holy child of LaGuardia, Simon of Trent -- were beatified or commemorated with shrines that became sites of pilgrimages and miracles.
-- In 1209, Pope Innocent III launched an armed crusade against Albigenses Christians in southern France. When the besieged city of Beziers fell, soldiers reportedly asked their papal adviser how to distinguish the faithful from the infidel among the captives. He commanded: "Kill them all. God will know his own." Nearly 20,000 were slaughtered -- many first blinded, mutilated, dragged behind horses, or used for target practice.
2006-06-08 12:22:56
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answered by Jax 3
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God.
2006-06-08 12:16:40
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answered by doctor_bee 5
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Children? Who else, the Abortionists.
2006-06-08 12:16:00
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answered by firefox_la 3
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