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More faces of God:-
"H'm" by R.S.Thomas
and one said speak to us of love and the preacher opened his mouth and the word God fell out so they tried again speak to us of God then but the preacher was silent reaching his arms out but the little children the ones with big bellies and bow legs that were like a razor shell were too weak to come
@SW-User God is not responsible for how man treat other men. It is the responsibility of mankind to do as God desires. He gave us His law of love and it is our duty and responsibility to fulfill His desire. He does not want to see children or anyone to starve. But He gave us the power, the mean, the method,the responsibility, and the authority to transform our lives and the lives of others to live in abundance, peace, and love.
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@raysid498950247 I was showing a face of God, and then asking a question. "H'm". You have given your answer.
@SW-User This issue only has an answer in the afterlife. It’s said that those children will be near God in heaven. For now we have the freedom to learn from how mistakes. If we don’t learn I suspect a global catastrophe will just wipe us all out.
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@eMortal As I see it, one of our mistakes is to think that answers will only be found in an afterlife. I agree that we need to learn.
This issue only has an answer in the afterlife. It’s said that those children will be near God in heaven. For now we have the freedom to learn from how mistakes. If we don’t learn I suspect a global catastrophe will just wipe us all out.
There is not one passage in the biblical fairytale that says that children will go to heaven.
The idea that children can go to paradise is an Islamic idea, not a biblical one.
@Diotrephes It really is a matter of what happens to the child after their death. It depends on what age the childs is. If it dies as an infant it's spirit merges back with the spirit of God. An older child will simply receive another body and return to Earth as a new individual. It all depends on the age of the child. Heaven is not a Paradise it is the entire universe and spirits live in the universe as free independent individuals entities. We must come to understand that the human is made of two substances, spirit and matter. The spirit is the part that guides the matter, (brain) in the course of it's spiritual development. The spirit helps the matter to grow while the matter limits the growth of the spirit. Matter is inert and dormant and does not want to do anything other than just exist. The spirit help the matter by lifting it up to the level of the spirit. The two can work together in unison or they can work apart. "These are the distinctive signs of spirit and matter. Spiritual signs are the following: a good nature, mercy, disinterrest in material gain, a feeling of justice, a continuous longing for knowledge and omnicomprehension, and a disposition to sacfrice, counscious faith in God--Creator and leader of all--and a feeling of immortality. The signs of matter are the following: egotisn, greed, degradation or cruelty, lack of interest, worship of inativity, a rather blind and sedate faith in God and no feeling of immortality, and also jealousy and its twin envy. According to these sign you can easily gauge every human being and determine if he/she is ruled by spirit or matter, and in what porportion these substances are. These indication are not important to understand for the purpose of juding someone else, as to understanding oneself. They show what the human being has to work against an unrelenting struggle." "Messgaes to Mankind from The Almighty and His spirits", Alexander Homics, Vantage Press, 1977.
It really is a matter of what happens to the child after their death. It depends on what age the childs is. If it dies as an infant it's spirit merges back with the spirit of God. An older child will simply receive another body and return to Earth as a new individual. It all depends on the age of the child.
Can you explain how you know this?
The idea of paradise is an Islamic idea. It has nothing to do with Judaism or Christianity. Most Christians (not all) believe in an imaginary heaven where they will be reunited with their loved ones.
The biblical fairytale says that "heaven" is a 1,500 mile sided bejeweled golden cube called New Jerusalem surrounded by a 1,500 tall wall with twelve gates, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. It does not say anything about Gentiles or children gaining entrance.
The Mormons think that each good guy Mormon will become a god with his own planet and harem.
In Islam and Mormon women are merely sex objects in the afterlife. In the biblical version there is no specific mention of women in the golden cube.