If so, how come he didn't love their deceased parents, grand parents, and other ancestors that much?
2006-07-20 09:46:17 · 6 answers · asked by 自由思想家 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God won't judge those who have not heard, only those who willfully reject the gospel, does that mean that the missionaries condemned many native Americans to hell by exposing them to the christian virus?
2006-07-20 09:53:43 · update #1
I believe, as I think most Christians do, that those who have not had the opportunity to hear the Gospel were forgiven on the basis that God will not judge ignorance but only willful disregard or rejection.
UPDATE:
If you're referring to disease that the missionaries carried in with them, I can't answer that. I'd say that the natives would have had to have ample opportunity before being judged but I'm not God. And to try to understand this level is impossible for the human mind. There are many things that we humans think is torturous that God finds necessary for spiritual growth to occur. Most of us are so willfully stubborn that it takes repeated efforts and usually increased intensity for us to even listen to God. I have had the same questions you have but they can't be answered. Rather than take the global or universal view that can't be fully understood by either spiritual or scientific methods, why not take the immediate view of your own life and those around you? Have missionaries brought disease to your home? Or are you just cynically picking this apart for your own amusement?
2006-07-20 09:50:32 · answer #1 · answered by byhisgrace70295 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am part Native American and I practice the spirituality of my ancestors. This issue is not about the love a christian god for the Native Americans. This is about outsiders, under the guise of christianity, imposing their will and ideology where it was never ever needed. All aboriginal cultures have and always have their own spirituality. We were fine within ourselves until the christian ideal imposed a genecide, all over the world, to impose their ideals on us. Despite all of this our spirituality continues to survive and always will. With a threat of genecide all of you would convert to Islam or whatever. I know for a fact that we will not be judged on the basis of imposing ourselves to the rest of the world through imperialist treatment of the masses.
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2006-07-20 17:28:52 · answer #2 · answered by diaryofamadblackman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Europeans forced conversions at gun point. They also did it during the Crusades and the Burnings. How does that make Christians different from anyone else toting a gun and screaming jihad? Doesn't sound like love, to me. Sounds like terrorism.
2006-07-20 17:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by ninusharra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to read the Book of Mormon to figure all that stuff out.
In simple terms, the American Indians were, well, I guess there isn't a short story way of telling this, so, just read it, OK?
2006-07-20 16:58:19 · answer #4 · answered by MornGloryHM 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we will all be judged differently depending on what we know and how we acted. Christians will be judged MUCH more harshly since they knew about Jesus, while someone who never knew about Jesus won't be judged as bad,but only punished for sins.
2006-07-20 16:52:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering they mostly where killed off.....
2006-07-20 16:50:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋