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2006-10-14 06:34:19 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is how Jebus wanted it I guess.
2006-10-14 06:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
read the whole chapter. In Hosea 9:1 God tells them their sin of going a whoring from their God...
God is remembering their iniquity & visiting their sins.
I like the King James translation better. In verse 13, Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer (abortion). This is God's judgment on His people.
God does allow us to reap what we sow. It is a promise in His Word. So?
So, that was in the old covenent. We are in a time of Grace right now. Yet, God will not be mocked, we will reap what we sow. It is so important that we talk the victory / faith rather than our fears / unbelief.
2006-10-14 06:47:44 · answer #2 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does god allow children to die like in the recent school shooting in the United States. Why, I pondered that one for many years until I finally found the best answer I could. It goes like this: It is also true that 10,000 years from now there will probably be nothing that anyone alive there at that time would know about you and your life or me and my life.
However, from the perspective of projecting your mind to ten thousand years into the future, the difference between being 65 years old when you die or five years old when you die is almost insignificant. What does anyone of us do with our lives that makes a great difference in the world and so what....
I am not trying to make the dying of a child insignificant, but I am calling into question our need to reference important events to our life and make them infinitely important.
It seems to me, that these events become universal in nature as time passes. All humans suffer so suffering will be remembered and so on.
But, more importantly, the idea we can fix the relevance of anything to our time or to there time makes reality fluid enough to appreciate the timelessness of all events or feelings for that matter.
Bottom line, in someway it all works out! It comes to a form of knowing called faith. Faith is a form of knowing!
2006-10-14 06:56:04 · answer #3 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I find it funny that most people say that "god killed them because they would become evil" If these poor children were to become evil without a choice then where was their free will? Couldn't god send someone down to teach them instead of killing them. And why doesn't god still do that to this day? The fact is that the bible has many stories that might have been true, but they have no connection to god. Someone needed to kill a town full of children and to justify his actions and be able to sleep at night, he said that god told him to do it. What other way could anyone get people to do ridiculous things like kill children for things they have not even done yet.
2006-10-14 06:43:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the men that wrote the bible were ignorant evil men. God however had nothing to do with writing the bible. In fact, the God of the bible doesn't even exist.
2006-10-14 07:08:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the nation of Ephraim was being very rude to God by not adoring him anymore and rebelling against him. They decided to adore other gods and they even tortured and did not listen to what the prophets of god would warn them and when they tried to correct the people of Ephraim's errors. Instead Ephraim would also be very inmoral and commiting so much lust like people in our time also commit. So God decided that the time had came to destroy them so that the next generations would not follow their errors.
2006-10-14 06:48:24 · answer #6 · answered by d8jk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about the firstborn of Egypt during the days of Moses, that particular plague was brought about by Pharoah's own mouth. Even though he was warned by Moses that the next curse to befall Egypt would be brought by Pharoah's own mouth, he still decreed that the firstborn of Israel would be killed, and so the firstborn of Egypt suffered that curse, because Pharoah would not yield to God's word. Guess the fact that it was brought on by Pharoah, who was a pagan made it OK, hmmm?
2006-10-14 06:51:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If those children grew up under the influence of a wicked and perverse generation of culture that was enemies of God, what would their chances be in eternity? Nil, nada, nichtig, not, none, zip, zero, out of here. To die as a child and go to heaven or to live out your life here and go to hell???? hmmmmmmmmm now let's see?? Eternity in Heaven or Eternity in Hell?????? Guess I'll have to ponder that one.
2006-10-14 06:43:37 · answer #8 · answered by hoover 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ur taking the context wrong. He is probably talking about what He is goingt o do to a nation that hasnt been listening to Him. He punishes people but only becuase He lvoes us and for a good reason. U an't think God is bad becuase He lets babies be killed and children dead. Thats like saying that God is a murderer becuase He let a baby die from being premature.
2006-10-14 06:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by Mia 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
He willed that the evil Ephraim shall have no children to carry on his evil. So what. I guess you support the Antichrist coming and having kids as fast as Mormons.
2006-10-14 06:36:32 · answer #10 · answered by Sonnenrad 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2006/09/satan-vs-god-past-and-future-killings.html
The running tally of how many people god killed, or had killed according to the bible. He really has some anger management issues.
2006-10-14 06:45:13 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋