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| Sin, AIDS and compassion | |
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| Topic Started: Saturday, 23. October 2010, 16:12 (707 Views) | |
| Clare | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 10:04 Post #16 |
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Putting the "Fun Dame" into Fundamentalist
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Then there's the old Original Sin business. We're all suffering as a result of Adam and Eve's disobedience. Sin does not just have consequences for the particular sinner. |
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| Anne-Marie | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 10:10 Post #17 |
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Whether AIDS is from God - or merely co-incidental - is something we can never prove: Suffice to say it has happened, been spread through both sexual conduct and also received through the likes of blood tranfusioins to those who have lived exemplary lives. One response might be that this life should not be seen as an end in itself, but merely a preparation for the next!!! Gods certainly DID punish - whether He still does might be open to debate, because there is a world of difference between being punished and reaping the consequences of ones own actions! You have choices, you make them freely, and there will always be a consequence: you write a letter, someone receives it... you don't write and they don;t receive! You can live as 'morally' as you like - it's no defence if you then need a blood tansfusion - you are paying for the conduct of others! |
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| Peter | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 10:27 Post #18 |
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I'm no scholar so will probably get shot down in flames, however, I tend to believe that since Jesus's time God has not punished us, Jesus put paid to all of that. However, I do believe that things happen to us, good and bad, but that we have our Creator and Lord beside us helping us to get through the hurt and pain and into a good place. Well that's what I believe anyway! |
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| Gerard | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 12:21 Post #19 |
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Peter and Ann-Marie, I do not think it is open to debate at all. God certainly does punish today.
What may be open do debate is Gods purpose in doing so. What may be open to debate is whether in individual cases one is dealing with punishment or something else. Gerry |
| "The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998). | |
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| tomais | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 13:35 Post #20 |
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Such discussion,not here but giving rise to these might be read and interpreted as being sound reasons for not believing in any god. Not even pick and mix-the shrug of shoulder interpretation rules-OK? Just been looking at the host of Haitian sinners in and around their sinfulness. |
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| Peter | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 13:39 Post #21 |
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Gerry, no I don't buy it and in my view,it's always a mistake to conjure up a biblical verse in support of an argument that we tend to side with. |
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| Gerard | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 13:53 Post #22 |
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Peter, I am assuming you have children. If not, think about when you were looking after someone els's toddler. The toddler is about to touch the fire. Do you let them or do you slap their hand out of the way? And I certainly did not select a verse to back up a particular argument. The question was asked and the proposition made that God does not punish in the New Covenant. I supplied two verses from two different NT Books that say He does. If two are not enough for you I will supply more. He is not an indulgent parent who spolis a child. Neither is he a neglectful parent. Since you accuse me of selecting verses to fit "my" argument I feel able to accuse you of inventing a different God from that revealed in the Bible. Gerry Edited by Gerard, Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:00.
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| "The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998). | |
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| Gerard | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 13:58 Post #23 |
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Tom, Where did anyone here say that the cholera outbreak in Haity was a punishment? You are deliberately reducing complex arguments to a simplistic homogeneity. Not everything is a punishment. But that does not mean that everything is not punishment. I might have expected your interest in philosophy to be aware of that. Gerry |
| "The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998). | |
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| Gerard | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:06 Post #24 |
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1 Cor 11:32 But when God does judge us, he disciplines us as his own sons, that we may not be involved in the general condemnation of the world. |
| "The institutional and charismatic aspects are quasi coessential to the Church's constitution" (Pope John Paul II, 1998). | |
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| Peter | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:06 Post #25 |
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Gerry, you can accuse me of whatever you like, I really don't mind, but I know that I believe in the God of Love and that He loves me. I've just read another of your posts on the subject of Aids and the reasons for the spread of it and it's not very nice is it, or true. Life is not straight forward, not black and white but like your vision of God it seems to provide some re-assurance and comfort for you to believe it, still, if that's your bag, so be it. |
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| Gerard | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:22 Post #26 |
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Which part of any of my posts was/is not true? Gerry |
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| OsullivanB | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:53 Post #27 |
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A caring person wouldn't have an open fire and a toddler in the same room. |
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| Rose of York | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 14:58 Post #28 |
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I cannot recall any priest, bishop or archbishop mentioning the spread of AIDS by intravenous drug use. They have tunnel vision, they see sexual sin more readily than they see other sins. |
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| Rose of York | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 15:02 Post #29 |
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Natural justice is governed by Natural Law, which comes from God. When a man or woman contracts AIDS due to homesexual activity they bear some responsibility for their illness. A man or woman catching AIDS from their husband or wife bears no more guilt than a person who catches influenza from air borne virus. A child born to a woman with AIDS bears no guilt. A smoker risks having a disease. If that person smokes in the presence of others in a close environment, there is a risk they too will get a disease. I just find it odd that the Church makes such a fuss about sexually transmitted diseases compared with the low volume of statements about deaths due to unprescribed drugs, tobacco and alcohol. God does not punish the innocent individual for the sins of others. Innocents do sometimes suffer due to the sins of other individuals, but I am confident the responsibility lies with a sinner, not direct action by God. |
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| Derekap | Sunday, 24. October 2010, 15:16 Post #30 |
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May I for a moment go back a bit for an explanation. For a moment I thought the Belgian case was about an AIDS suffererwho received an infected blood transfusion. |
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