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Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/14/2008 1:46:18 PM
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deedeeowens
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My son has made some very bad decisions in his life. He brought two children (twins) into the world with a woman that he wasn't married to. There relationship ended, and now he is married to someone else. He sees how his children are living, and the immorality that they are exposed to on a daily basis, and wants to know why God doesn't protect them. He takes ownership of his sin, but at the same time he always wants to know why his children have to suffer because of the choices that he made. Do you have any suggestions on how to explain this to him?
Dee Dee
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/14/2008 4:07:32 PM
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Child4Jesus
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My son has made some very bad decisions in his life. He brought two children (twins) into the world with a woman that he wasn't married to. There relationship ended, and now he is married to someone else. He sees how his children are living, and the immorality that they are exposed to on a daily basis, and wants to know why God doesn't protect them. He takes ownership of his sin, but at the same time he always wants to know why his children have to suffer because of the choices that he made. Do you have any suggestions on how to explain this to him?
Dee Dee
Who says that God isn't protecting them?
As far as why they have to suffer for choices he made. Consequences for sin. His children are suffering because of his and this woman's decision to step outside the bonds of what God intended for sexual male and female relationship. They are suffering because of the way the mother is living. They are suffering because we live in a world and is fallen.
Have him read Ezekiel 18.
Exodus 34:6-7
6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Numbers 14:18
18 ‘The LORD is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/14/2008 9:26:05 PM
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buckifn
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I have never known one time when God abused a child...but people on the other hand often treat children like a disposable piece of paper to be thrown in the garbage.
I don't mean to sound hateful, but if anyone is having a child outside of marriage just how much of a good life do they expect the child to have ? The Bible already explains the results of sin pretty clearly I would say....it's too bad your son's children are experiencing that first hand.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/14/2008 10:13:03 PM
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My son has made some very bad decisions in his life. He brought two children (twins) into the world with a woman that he wasn't married to. There relationship ended, and now he is married to someone else. He sees how his children are living, and the immorality that they are exposed to on a daily basis, and wants to know why God doesn't protect them. He takes ownership of his sin, but at the same time he always wants to know why his children have to suffer because of the choices that he made. Do you have any suggestions on how to explain this to him?
Dee Dee
Please know, that there is hope, and your son needs to know this. God loves us and He knows we arent perfect. When we repent and ask for His forgiveness, He forgives. I think the most important thing here is, has your son ask the Lord to come into his life, has He made Him Lord and Savior? If he hasnt, he needs too. This could be one way that the Lord is working in your sons life. To bring him to repentance, and to allow Him to do what needs to be done. You tell your son, that there is nothing too big for God, but it starts with him.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/15/2008 1:19:12 PM
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Yes, I agree.
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ORIGINAL: deedeeowens
My son has made some very bad decisions in his life. He brought two children (twins) into the world with a woman that he wasn't married to. There relationship ended, and now he is married to someone else. He sees how his children are living, and the immorality that they are exposed to on a daily basis, and wants to know why God doesn't protect them. He takes ownership of his sin, but at the same time he always wants to know why his children have to suffer because of the choices that he made. Do you have any suggestions on how to explain this to him?
Dee Dee
Please know, that there is hope, and your son needs to know this. God loves us and He knows we arent perfect. When we repent and ask for His forgiveness, He forgives. I think the most important thing here is, has your son ask the Lord to come into his life, has He made Him Lord and Savior? If he hasnt, he needs too. This could be one way that the Lord is working in your sons life. To bring him to repentance, and to allow Him to do what needs to be done. You tell your son, that there is nothing too big for God, but it starts with him.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/17/2008 1:34:33 PM
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deedeeowens
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Thank you for your responses. The reason I posted the question is because I already explained the consequences of sin, and quoted the scripture regarding the sins of the fathers. After having done so he still could not understand why his children have to suffer because of HIS choices. This weekend I listened to a sermon by the late David Morsey. Something he said really hit home. He said, "We cannot judge the performance of God." I think that is what my son is doing. Basically he is saying, "Okay God. I messed this up, but YOU are God and YOU can make it all better with magic if you want to." Then when God doesn't perform and make it all better for his children, he is disappointed in God's performance. My son is out of the country right now serving in the U.S. Airforce and is in dispair every time he talks to my grandchildren over the phone and hears the things that are going on in their life. I would appreciate your prayers for him. Thank you.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/18/2008 8:24:05 AM
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whitepoodle
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"Okay God. I messed this up, but YOU are God and YOU can make it all better with magic if you want to." Then when God doesn't perform and make it all better for his children, he is disappointed in God's performance. My son is out of the country right now servi
With all due respect i think your son thinks God owes us something which is not true. God owes us absolutely nothing yet he gave us life and that's a lot in itself to be grateful for.
But clearly in this age God allows evil to exist and play out in the hope and expectation that in the deliverance from it , we will benefit a hundred fold.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/18/2008 7:55:26 PM
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JStucki76
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Bad choices have consequences. Sometimes they affect others. People do not live their lives isolated in a bubble from the rest of the world. Our choices affect other people. Parents' choices affect their children. Wives' choices affect their husbands, and vice versa.
The children will be affected partially because they learn about life from their parents. The choices parents make affect the way their children make choices. How else do children learn?
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 11/22/2008 5:48:32 PM
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Hello deedeeowens
God has laid out a blueprint for living. He say, "Man, if you will live this way, I will make your life victorious and glorious."
So, what happens when men live outside of this blurprint; shame, agony, depression, dred and even death.
Sorry but your son lived outside of God's bluepring. And yes, he made his own bed and the results were not the best.
Now, here is the rest of the story. Even though many of us live outside of His blueprint for living, He will take us under His wing when we repent of those things and turn toward Him. He will rectify the things we do that were not of His choosing.
Your son may have to live under that shadow of what he did but God will work them to good if your son loves Him and accept His purpose.
Since you brought this up, there is an age old question, "Why is there so much evil in the world?" It's simple to me. Most people insist on living outside of God's blueprint for living.
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 12/16/2008 1:05:12 AM
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Ive been through this in my own life. Its a dead end road. The issue becomes a slow burn disapproval of Gods dealings with our lives. Yes we confess and we supposedly repent, but the inward assumption is "God like a big grampa will make it all better" When God doesnt act like that we think, then God is unjustly punishing or refusing to help. The question is who said God must do anything for your children? Do they deserve grace and kindness from Him when you didnt extend any yourself? This problem is common all over the nation. Man's sin has serious reprocussions and many believe God is like the foolish parent that gives the child whatever he wants irregardless of their temper or treatment of the parent.
Some sins have life long consequences, and by the way. The fact that the children are alive and functioning shows God's great grace. The fact that the father is so cruel as to chose his own way instead of God's and then blame God for the childrens poor living conditions only shows the depravity of the human heart. He does not understand at all what kind of man he is nor what kind of God he is blaming for his own sins.
Its just me, but Id wonder if this man has yet to be born again.
John
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RE: Why Doesn't God Protect Children? - 12/19/2008 2:19:40 AM
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The sin is not all "his" but also the mothers for she had a part in this as well. It seems to me that he learned from his mistakes and repented, but she has not. Scripture states that we are not to judge the world, that is Gods domain. But we see how sin plays out in other peoples lives and from that we learn that what God says is true. If God does not allow reprecussions from wrongful choices, how will we know right from wrong? In the Old Testement, God stated he would not destroy the earth because of mans sins. Lets face it, if God were to stamp out all sin everywhere, there would be no one left alive! Abraham asked God when God said he was going to Gammorrah to Judge it, if he found only 5 righteous people would he destroy the city. God stated he would not destroy the city if he found 5 righteous people. I figure we are still here is because God can still find 5 righteous people on this planet.
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