How many children were saved from the flood and the destruction of Sodom?
None. Don't count on God rapturing any children that aren't parents of true followers of Christ.
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If you want to tell us that god is an asshole who punishes innocent children for the sins of their parents, then this is something we already know.
You know, if I had the chance to either believe in god like he is described in the bible (especially the old testament) or to become an atheist, I would definitely choose to be an atheist ;)
I would even have to choose to oppose god for moral reasons, if I definitely knew that god is real and that he is exactly like described in the bible.
Why? Well, it is like the choice people had in times of the third Reich, i.e. either live with an inhuman system under a monster, or to oppose it (and be in danger of getting harassed/killed). The cowards (and naive) chose to live with the systems, but the brave ones chose to oppose it.
Fortunately faith doesn´t consist of just these 2 alternatives and you can still believe in a loving god (i.e. in some kind of divine entity, that is totally different from ther god in the old testament ;) )
Children that aren't parents? M'kay.
Assuming you meant "children whose parents aren't
" Yeah, your god's a dick.
Children that are not parents? WAT? O.o
I think the point you were trying to make was that your God would not only not think twice, but has already willfully murdered children?
And you have the audacity to claim he is a God of love?
Well, God was too lazy to save them from sin, so they were going to grow up to be sinners anyway, so he killed them.
It's Calvinism, duh.
I'm rating this down because it's actually refreshing to hear a change from that "age of accountability" bullshit. Look, you could twist a couple verses and maybe get that the Bible predicts a rapture-like ocurance. But there is no verse that says children will be taken too. It's just special pleading, and yeah, God didn't make exceptions before when he enacted past disasters, why expect him to change his ways now?
In fundie theology, not being raptured does NOT send you to hell. Nor is it necessarily fatal (these people expect the Tribulation to be very deadly, but people are supposed to survive to the end of it). In this belief, not being raptured just means you didn't get the first-class ride to heaven; still have the same chance to get there after death like other people. (Or, if you live 7 years - assuming these guys are pre-trib rapturists - all the surviving Christians don't die at all.)
"None. Don't count on God rapturing any children that aren't parents of true followers of Christ. "
I'm in a very generous mood today. I think you mean whose parents, etc. Very few children are parents.
You're still an idiot, though.
What if the children believe in Jesus? Does their chance in being raptured still depend on their parents?
In other words, you are pretty much saying the kids go to Hell if their parents aren't believers.
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<<Don't count on God rapturing any children that aren't parents of true followers of Christ. >>
Ok , it's obviously to late for me to understand this sentence . Children are parents ????
any children that aren't parents
I'd advise you to slow down and think about what you're posting, but that's obviously wasted advice.
Children being parents... Well, there is a medical case of a 5 year old mother, so it is possible... but last I checked, it was condemned as evil, wrong, ect. I bet you I walk into any church and ask them, and they say it was wrong as well. Even the Satanist say it is wrong. Really, if you can get the Chirstians, the Atheist, and the Satanist to all agree (not to mention the Scientific Community), it must have some weight. Either than or it is an extreme misconception, but I think the ball is in your court in proving that.
And since children, by definition, cannot be parents, that means no one who dies as a child can go to heaven. Whoops!
I thought all the little innocent children who were killed in Sodom got to go to Heaven.
Oh, wait, the destruction of Sodom happened before Jesus. EVERYBODY went to Hell when they died back then.
"Don't count on God rapturing any children that aren't parents of true followers of Christ."
wait, so the children have to be parents, too?
so only the middle generation can be raptured? what about the kids- wait, I just read the beginning...
so all the children will die, all the elderly will die, and only the middle-aged generation will survive? personally, that sounds like age-discrimination to the Nazi level
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"This is your last warning!"
Ummm, how can it be our last warning when you've cut and pasted the same crap several times to various threads on page one alone?
This is getting old, coward. You are not impressing, let alone converting, anyone at all.
Do us all a favor, and fuck off.
If children are parents yer doing Christianity wrong.
God really doesnt like children, firstborn of Egypt, the kids who got killed by bears, drowned in the flood, burned up in sodom , the ones killed when God commanded "kill them all, but keep the virgins"
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