1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist
12/19/2013 10:09:00 PM
"James" wrote in message news:jjv5b9hockshiu8t4lf10rhk3pkvtg5fcv@4ax.com...
"1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist" <jnhickling@ntlworld.com>
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>"James" wrote in message
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>"1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist" <w.force@ntlworld.com>
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>>"1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist" <w.force@ntlworld.com>
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>>>In article <f02ua91bi0ajr6rem4i5ud602hhe2cdst4@4ax.com>,
>>>James <1rilu2@windstream.net> wrote:
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>>>> "1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist" <jnhickling@ntlworld.com>
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>>>> >"James" wrote in message
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>>>> >"1st Century Apostolic Traditionalist" <jnhickling@ntlworld.com>
>>>> >>"James" wrote in message news
>>>> >>>God does not kill innocent people. Perhaps
>>>> >>>you are thinking of past times when children of wicked parents were
>>>> >>>destroyed along with their parents during times of judgement. For
>>>> >>>many, this is the most difficult of Bible experiences to understand.
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>>>> >>It's easily explained when we understand God's reasoning.
>>>> >>The people destroyed were both evil and corrupted, thus as like
>>>> >>begets like, the children would have undoubtedly have grown to
>>>> >>become the same.
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>>>> >>Like when we kill rats, we don't leave the babies alone as they too
>>>> >>before long will become as filthy and dangerous as their parents.
>>>> >>Thus with evil and corrupted human beings, just as we see in today's
>>>> >>decadent westernized societies.
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>>>> God did not kill the children so that they could not grow up and
>>>> become wicked. God took the children because He holds parents
>>>> responsible for their children until they become of age. The the
>>>> parents are to blame for any loss of their children.
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>>>Sorry, but Almighty God disagrees with that one, James.
>>>"16 Parents must never be put to death for the crimes of their
>>>children, and children must never be put to death for the crimes
>>>of their parents. Each person must be put to death for his own crime."
>>>Deut 24:16 (GW)
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>>~ Jeff, that was under the Mosaic Laws.
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>>Exactly, which covers the period we are on about.
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>~As far as I was aware, we were discussing mainly the NT, where Jesus
>~dying did away with those Mosaic Laws.
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>No we weren't, we were discussing what you stated:
>Your own words at the beginning of this post:
>"Perhaps you are thinking of past times when children of wicked parents
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>destroyed along with their parents during times of judgement"
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>Indeed I was, and so my point remains true , James.
~ Sorry if I got off target, Jeff.
No problem....{;o;}
>And as the NT showed, small ones go with the judgement of the parents.
>Apparently, when God personally does the judging, he includes the
>children of the parents. When men do the judging, as in the Mosaic
>laws, they don't judge the children because of the parents.
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>the way you see it?
Children are covered as to "Being holy" IF one or other of the parents is
a baptized, AFTER belief, believer.
Jeff...