AphroditeGoneAwry
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What do you guys think of this quote?
Does that quote mean something to you?
What do you guys think of this quote?
When it comes to calling I prefer Augustine.
"Love God and do what you want."
Jesus is very against child abuse. God is as well, despite the misinterpretation in the story of Abraham and Isaac.
It's men and women who perpetuate child abuse. Blame not God.
Children are so pure in His eyes, we must be like children to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Many have issues with God 'allowing' child abuse to happen. And that is a hard thing for us to understand. But even in the face of not understanding God's ways, we must have faith in His ultimate plan for good for us and our lives.
Sort of idealistic and limiting at the same time. Note that the people who come up with these types of quotes are preachers or theologians not plumbers or janitors.
When it comes to calling I prefer Augustine.
"Love God and do what you want."
Part of the good news is not that there is a calling somewhere out there in which you can find joy, but that you can find joy in any worthy calling.
Saint Augustine taught that heretics should be tortured, and they were.
But why should we be surprised when Saint Augustine worshiped a God who ordered Abraham to tie up his son, Isaac, and stand over him with a butcher's knife, ready to cut his son up alive. This is child abuse.
And why should we be surprised when Saint Augustine revered Mary who gave birth to Jesus when she was 12 years old. And this is child abuse incurring a 25 year prison sentence in Oz.
And why should we be surprised when Augustine worshiped the Trinity where the Father tied his Son to the Cross and tortured him to death. And this is also child abuse.
And why should we be surprised when the Australian Royal Commission into Child Abuse is finding that the Church took part in organised child abuse and covered it up.
And why should we be surprised when the United Nations said the other day that one Church alone has abused tens of thousands of children in recent times and covered it up.
Gosh, Love God and do what you want, sums it all up, doesn't it?
Do you view calling synonymous with profession?
Please! The worst child abuse was carried out against slave children.
Jesus was surrounded by institutional slavery and said not a word against it.
Jesus was surrounded by the abuse of slave children, yet he remained silent.
And silence is complicity.
What do you guys think of this quote?
He was clear about not causing children to sin; He said it would have been better for them to be cast into the sea with a millstone around their neck, than to cause a child to sin. How is that silent?
I'm afraid biblically some forms of child abuse are considered causing the child to sin, in the case of incest or sexual immorality.
It is also one of the worst sins to cause another to sin.
Yes?
Yes?
Uh, what you said is completely horrible? What you said, is saying that it is the childs fault for getting raped or subjected to incest.
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. ~Psalm 51:5
Technically they do. They are undoubtedly forced to, most of the time, and God understands this.
But sinning is sinning.
Again, the point is that those who cause children to sin are held accountable to God.
Technically they do. They are undoubtedly forced to, most of the time, and God understands this.
But sinning is sinning.
Again, the point is that those who cause children to sin are held accountable to God.