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1 | Were the babes of Sodom righteous? | Gen 18:26 | JCrichton | 107877 | ||
True, Searcher, Sodom and Gomorrah were not worshiping Yahweh; but still they were created in God's image (Matthew 5:45). I believe that the question is not did they worship Yahweh; it is were the children seen by God as righteous or unrighteous. Being that their parents were lost would Yahweh not permit some type of dispensation for them? Hence my post's reference to 1 Peter 3:18-22. Christ did not die for a select few: Romans 5:6. Further, as you pointed out there was no Israel, for Issac had yet to be born! So if you are saying that Christ did not die for those children (the original question assumes that there were children born in Sodom), then would you also say that God's Salvation Plan is flawed, for how could a three year old defy his parents and walk over to Abraham's camp? Jesus never said that children were automatically heaven's citizen; He said that only as children would we (those tarnished by sin) gain salvation. Children, at least Jesus' contemporaries, are innocent, loving, trusting, hungry for instruction, and humble. Thomas'(a great teacher: John 3:10) reactions to Jesus' teachings were confrontational and disbelief. Most of the interchange demonstrate just that point: we can go on in circles expanding from point a to z, including material that does not even shadow the original point, in an effort to prove something wrong or misinterpreted. When God spoke to Abraham about that one righteous person, did He include all the people? Did Yahweh make an exception for the children since Jesus' liberatinng grace was set for a distant future, or did He just figured "like father like son, let them all burn"? I do not presume to speak for my God, but I believe that there is Wisdom and Mercy beyond my understanding in Yahweh's Works. So I would rather think that He would have mercy on children who are way too ignorant to know and to choose righteousness! Since God is Love and Mercy--His Salvation could not be meant just for me! God Bless! |
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2 | Were the babes of Sodom righteous? | Gen 18:26 | Searcher56 | 107948 | ||
Every person, every child, every baby is born into this world with an inherent sinful nature. Sin is embedded within the entire human race. David said in Psalm 51:5, "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me." Psalm 58:3 says, "The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies." Ecclesiastes 7:20 says, "For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin." Of course Romans 3 describes the full depravity of the human condition summing it up with verse 10, "There is none righteous, no, not one." We inherited this sinful nature from our common forefather Adam. Romans 5:12 says, "Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned." We are born with a desire for sin. We don’t have to be taught to sin; we do it naturally, by nature. Ephesians 2:3 says we are "by nature children of wrath." God said of man in Genesis 8:21, "…the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." To put it succinctly, every person ever conceived has inherited a sinful, rebellious nature.. We all deserve death and we all deserve hell, even babies. |
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3 | Were the babes of Sodom righteous? | Gen 18:26 | JCrichton | 107976 | ||
Is this the point that the original posting meant to make? Since we are all sinners (God's words) then why was the point of the original post: Subject: Were the babes of Sodom righteous? Abraham was found righteous by God--Did Abraham make himself righteous? Was it not God who found Abraham to be righteous? I thought that point of the question was would God not have made the children of Sodom righteous, since they had no other sin other than the "inherent sinful nature," while simultaneously passing sentence (Romans 6:21) on the sinful conduct of the people of Sodom. Perhaps I thought that that was the point in question. Sorry for the misunderstanding! God Bless! |
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