yes,
god sends bears to slaughter 42 children because they made fun of a prophet for being bald.
Essentially, Elisha was getting ganged up on, and
God sent the bears for his protection.
God sent a bear to kill a group of children, because they had teased one of His prophets.
Not exact matches
Believe in One
God and there is no partner with him, No son or any creatures and Jesus was just a messanger
sent to Children of Israel who was
born thru virgin Marry and no father, this is another miracle of
God that He can create a human without father as HE created Adam and Eve without parents... what if you found yourself in «wrong» by believing in multiple
Gods?
A friend passed away this weekend and an email that was
sent out said, that «Bill was
born into
God's eternal kingdom...» I thought that was a great way to look at it.
I doubt they will tell their children they are celebrating the event of their
God sending the Angel of Death to passover non-believers homes and kill the first
born male child.
For
God so loved this world He saw fit to
send His first
born of the «elementals», (Being
God's Sons) to give hope where little hopefulness was found.
We shall live through a long, long chain of days and endless evenings; we shall patiently
bear the trials fate
sends us; we'll work for others, now and in our old age, without ever knowing rest, and when our time comes, we shall die submissively; and there, beyond the grave, we shall say that we have suffered, that we have wept, that we have known bitterness, and
God shall have pity on us; and you and I, Uncle, dear Uncle, shall behold a life that is bright, beautiful, and fine.
I'm not
God and I would never claim to be Him, so I can't give you a perfectly straight answer as to why he chose to allow Elisha to
send the
bears after the young men.
Seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is that
God sent Jesus (himself actually) to earth to serve a a sacrificial lamb, to die for the sins of man because all people are
born into sin.
We do know that when Christ did appear, it was in fact the right time, as Scripture assures us: «But when the time had fully come,
God sent forth his Son,
born of a woman» (Galatians 4:4).
God answered this vital question by
sending His Son, Jesus, as the fulfillment of the most violent religious writings, to show us that He had nothing to do with the violence, but was instead dying along with us in the midst of the violence, taking our sin and suffering upon Himself,
bearing our guilt and shame in His own being, all for the sake of those He loved.
The Bible says don't kill, but you have prophets killing hundreds of people,
sending bears to kill children, and
God commanding genocide.
I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you to serve and
bear witness... to whom I
send you to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to
God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.
The Bible
god, according to 2 Kings 2:23 - 24,
sent two
bears to tear - up 42 little boys who were teasing the bald headed Hebrew «prophet» Elisha about his bald head!
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been
born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry
God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of
God's temper tantrums
sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of
God's sovereign plan, even
God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
Then he doesn't love us that much he just leaves it to luck like if the child is
born in a good family christan family then chances are very high that he will go to heaven but to a bad family and also
god knows better than me that if he destroyed satun and did whatever i mentioned in my commented the world would have been a outstanding place to live in if
god can
send his son to suffer then why not destroy satun or give him life sentence in hell or even better why din't he paid attention while making Adam and Eve and even if he din't why din't he renoved the tree of knowlage from the garden of Eden then he woundn't have to tell Adam and Eve not to eat any fruit from that tree
seriously, imagine your own child dead in a field, torn apart by
bears sent by
God.
like when
God's prophet was made fun of by some children because he was bald, so
God sends 2
bears to kill the offending children:
Gods will is for us humans today to evolved to a level of conciousness that will prepare us for the challenges of our future survival, Scientists now predicts of hardships in the future due to over population and changes to the natural environment.and that is happening now with activists through out the world are reminding us of protecting nature.That is why we need a phsychological revolution to hasten the evolution of consciousness that will address the problems.Ideological and philosophical enlightenment had the past great minds to develop ideas and belief because
God sent them to reality in their times.Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, and many other religious leaders to teach humanity the doctrines that
God willed to be appropriate and applicable in those periods of their existence, Also great philosophers in another dimension of social involvement were
born to interprete and connect philosophically as the second element of our conscience, Kant, Marx and countless of them also were
born.To complete the triangular structure or dimension of our conscience is knowledge.
You should take comfort in knowing that if any kids make fun of you for being bald,
God will
send down an angry
bear to maul them.
Lawrence there is no context in which it is o.k. for
god to
send bears to kill anybody ever.
God thought a fitting punishment for making fun of hid baldness was to
send bears to maul no fewer than 42 children.
And he
sent forth his angel and presented [it] in signs through him to his slave John, 2) who
bore witness to the word
God gave and to the witness Jesus Christ gave, even to all the things he saw.
The
gods of all organized religions, if true, would all be horribly unjust and evil deities to
send billions of people to eternal suffering for choosing the wrong one or being
born in the wrong place.
The most gracious act of goodwill conceivable is the
sending of
God's son, and yet no sooner was Christ
born than the innocents were slaughtered.
According to your doctrine, Everyone is a sinner (even before they are
born) and
god sends sinners to hell.
As then»... although they know
God they did not honor him as
God or give thanks to him»; nevertheless,»... when the time had fully come
God sent forth his Son,
born of a woman,
born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.»
Remeber the sacrifice you made in
sending Jesus the Messiah, remember the sinless life He led and the pain He
bore for all of those who sinned and are so vary far, far away from you, living in darkness, blinded by the false
gods of this world and the lying deceiving spirits that say man's reason is all there is in life.
For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed»
sends the message that I have somehow earned
God's special favor, that
God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be
born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by
God.
Yet, if you are
born in a Muslim state, raised by loving parents who teach you GOOD morals in a Muslim religion... Christian
God sends you to hell.
(9) Finally, it focuses on the praxis of mission; for we are
sent into the world to
bear a life - witness to
God's redemptive concern for all people everywhere in the face of issues which affect their daily lives.Dubose,
God Who
Sends, pp159 - 160
It's a name as old as the storied shepherdess of Paddan Aram — a woman so captivating her husband pledged seven years of service in exchange for her hand, a woman whose determination to
bear children
sent her digging for mandrakes and bargaining with
God, a woman brazen enough to steal her father's idols and hide them in a camel saddle, a woman who took her last breath on the side of the road, giving birth, a woman whose tomb survived obscurity, conquest, earthquakes, and riots to become one of the most venerated and contested sites of the Holy Land.
One needs to study the teachings of
God's trusted and faithful Son, Jesus Christ, found in the book of John in the Holy (incorruptible) Bible; Jesus was
sent to us to
bear witness to the truth.
These religions were
born out of poverty, displaced Egyptian workers no longer needed to build pyramids were
sent away with memories of Egyptian man -
gods that were molded into their new modified Egyptian religions.
Eventually, from this seemingly unpromising preparation but in reality, as one of the early Christians declared, «when the time had fully come,
God sent forth His Son,
born of a woman» and «
born under the law» — that is, among the people through whom
God had sought to make preparation for that sovereign act.
god drowns babies in his great flood, destroyed babies when he destroyed sodom and gomorrah, even
sent bears to kill children for making fun of one of his prophets.
Paul declared that «when the time had fully come,
God sent forth His Son,
born of a woman,
born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.»
We must not exaggerate Mary's role in the Incarnation, but neither may we denigrate it, for, indeed, «in the fullness of time,
God sent forth his Son,
born of woman» (Gal.
And other texts: Letter of Consolation to all who Suffer Persecution (1522), Temporal Authority: to what extent it should be obeyed (1523), covering a wide range of the responsibilities of the state, Ordinance of a Common Chest (1523), That Jesus Christ was
born a Jew (1523), a defence of the teaching that Jesus was the promised «Messiah» of the Jews, To all Christians in Worms (1523), Concerning the Ministry (1523), Trade and Usuary (1524), stricter than some earlier medieval theories but not in practice greatly different (and he
sent a letter to the Saxon Chancellor, Gregory Bruck on the same topic), To the Councillors of all Cities in Germany that they establish and maintain Christian Schools (1525), How
God rescued an Honourable Nun (1524), the story of an escape from a convent, A Christian Letter of Consolation to the People of Miltenberg (1524).
Though
God in His Justice could have enacted a rendering for that Justice from all of us, instead He
sent His Son,
born of a woman,
born under the Law to save us.
If
God can
send an angel to roll away a stone, why not
send an army of angels to
bear up the helpless and the orphan and the widow?
When they come to fruit -
bearing, the cod does not come to that bright red color which it naturally has because of these unkindly years that have just passed; but we expect better when
God shall
send us a hot and temperate year.
Send me a fire tribute at
[email protected] if the titan
gods of metal choose me to
bear this great honor...