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1 | Righteous, Unrighteous and Children? | Gen 18:28 | Makarios | 12350 | ||
Where do you see in Scripture that says that the children WERE NOT righteous?? | ||||||
2 | Righteous, Unrighteous and Children? | Gen 18:28 | Searcher56 | 12356 | ||
In Gen 18:24-32, Abraham pleads and the count goes from 50 to 10 righteous ... since God desrtoyed Sodom and Gomorrah (19:24), I believe there weren't 10 righteous. Lot, his wife and two daughters are four. God could not find six other righteous. I presume there were children around. Since, they were not righteous, they are unrighteous. Unless you know of another catergory. Nolan, I do not want to be right. I want the little children - who do not know their right hand from their left, to be with the Lord. I still don't have a satisfactory answer to why the children were not considred righteous. Steve |
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3 | Righteous, Unrighteous and Children? | Gen 18:28 | Makarios | 12364 | ||
Dear Steve, Who is to say that God included the children in this 'count'? The rest of the chapter and the actual fall of Sodom and Gomorrah leads me to believe that only the men of the city were 'examined' here, and God destroyed the city for their outrageous sin! We do not know or cannot prove by the context of this verse that He did mean to include the children in this 'count', therefore any "presumption" that the children must have been 'unrighteous' because only 4 righteous people were found is totally baseless from what we read in Scripture. At this point, I believe that you are 'adding to' Scripture rather than 'taking' from it. If you can find any reference at all to children in any of these passages, then you just might be able to provide some sustenance to your wild assumption here. But if you cannot prove that the children were also included in this 'count', then I believe that you cannot come to the conclusion that you have without adding something to the text that was not there to begin with. I still do not have a satisfactory answer as to why you believe that children are being referred to in some way in these verses. --Nolan |
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