Posted on 08/02/2006 3:16:20 AM PDT by aerotsmith
Israel's air attack on Qana on July 30 resulted in the death of 37 children.
Hezbelloh has been accused on using civilians, including children, as human shields. The Israeli government claims that the death of innocent children was a "tragic mistake."
Regardless of the underlying facts, 37 precious children are dead. Victims of non-ending war in the Middle East.
Media images of those dead and mutilated children are haunting reminders of the horror of war and the carnage visited upon the most innocent and vulnerable among us.
Seeing dead and suffering children also brings to mind the stern warning issued by Jesus in Matthew 18: 6:
'But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.'
Jesus made no allowances for 'Collateral Damage' or 'Tragic Mistakes,' all too common during a bloody war.
The millstone would appear to apply to all who harm His 'Little Ones.'
However, although Jesus made no mention of intent, one can safely assume that the darkest, most punishing, corners of hell are reserved for those who deliberately use innocent children to wage war by using their young bodies as weapons of mass destruction.
Indeed, deliberately forcing a child to strap explosives to his or her body as a suicide bomber just to kill civilians, including other innocent children, is beyond comprehension.
Such barbaric behavior must surely be far more grievous than being party to an act of war in which children are mistakenly, and unintentionally, harmed.
Nearly 2000 years after Jesus, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Mier remarked that peace will be realized in the Middle East at such time as Muslim Arabs love their children more than they hate the Israelis.
Unfortunately, that day has not yet arrived.
Man's inhumanity toward man continues unabated, including unspeakable offenses against the world's 'Little Ones.'
Woe be unto those!
You'd better take your pills.
How about reading the entire thread,and the attendant result,before remarking?
How about you tell the mods that they can't comprehend either,since they saw fit to zot the troll?
That's a stretch. As righteous as their quest may be, they're still fighting for and representing themselves. Even in Biblical times, the Israelite army was never called the Army of God.
Everyone hates to see Children get killed. No matter that they are receiving messages of hate in their Islamic schools. That one mother of a dead Hamas suicide bomber hopes the rest of her kids will be martyrs too. That kids are taught from cradle to grave to be good little jihadists and kill the infidel. How many little Zarkawi's were in that building. How many Jewish children were killed in the holocaust and how many have died in suicide bombings. the Islamics didnt care how many they killed in Baghdad. Their only protests come when the Israelie's or the US happens to kill one.
Certainly I am thankful my kids are in this country and safe, but I worry for my Grandkids when the Islamics do take Europe and this country , and they will if we allow it .
In Biblical times,the Hebrews were by process of elimination certainly the army of God,as they were the only people who worshipped the one true God,and they were His Chosen. He Himself directed their mode of warfare,when he told them to kill every living thing,but leave the trees.
These little ones (tôn mikrôn toutôn). In the same sense as "one such little one" mentioned in v5. The child is the type of believers. In v5:
For "one such little child" (any believer in Christ) Luke (Lu 9:48) has "this little child" as a representative or symbol. "On the basis or ground of my name," "for my sake." Very much like eis onoma in Mt 10:41 which does not differ greatly from en onomati (Ac 10:48).
Here again the reference is made to the preceding verse:
This little child (to paidion touto). This saying about humbling oneself Jesus repeated a number of times as for instance in Mt 23:12. Probably Jesus pointed to the child by his side who's presence was established in verse two. It is not that the child humbled himself, but that the child is humble from the nature of the case in relation to older persons. That is true, however "bumptious" the child himself may be. It can be observed that to humble oneself is the most difficult thing in the world for saint as for sinner.
That Jesus is making an analogy is clearly evident in verse three:
Except ye turn and become (ean mê straphête kai genêsthe). Third-class condition, undetermined but with prospect of determination. Straphête is second aorist passive subjunctive and genêsthe second aorist middle subjunctive. The disciples were headed in the wrong direction with their selfish ambition (v1). Jesus' tone at this time is markedly severe, as much as when He denounces the Pharisaism in the bud He had to deal with. The strong double negative ou mê eiselthête means that they will otherwise not get into the kingdom of heaven at all, let alone have big places in it.
I Samual 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
I guess it's back to hitting the books Young Scholar.
Through whom (di' ou). Jesus recognizes the inevitableness of stumbling-blocks, traps, hindrances, the world being as it is, but He does not absolve the man who sets the trap (cf. Lu 17:1,2).
I forgot to include you
I noticed that too in what Cindy posted. That phrase was stated more than once.
Must be pretty important, huh?
Sorry; I actually remembered that David had used it a few times (I think he may have in Psalms too) and meant to change that sentence before I posted it. I don't think it was used after the days of David or Solomon, though.
S'okay, I knew that someone with deeper knowledge than mine would be along shortly,and I was reading in anticipation of learning what I should know :)
I read the entire thread and don't think aerotsmith should have been "zotted."
I've seen much, much worse here perpetrated by people that have been around much longer and they have been allowed to stay.
Oooopsh. That's v7 not v6. He addresses aerotmiths question posed, to which I replied to, in v7.
That is all. As you were. Carry on and talketh amongst oneselves.
Yep. And the good thing is God knows who is really committing evil. We can rest in knowing that regardless of the outcome in this world, things will be settled rightly in the next, which is one of the reasons I don't know how people who live without God have any hope.
If I were to believe that the end result for the perpetrators of the Holocaust, the very designers of that evil; the perpetrators of Stalin's purges, the gulags, the massacres that go on still every day; if I were to believe their end result, upon death, would be no different than that of Mother Theresa and all those who work for good and strive and sacrifice to make this world better, I would be the most hopeless individual to ever exist.
That's true,but with a sign-up date only a couple of days old,and with all the blaming of Israel going on almost everywhere in the media and on the 'net but here,it was a very unwise angle on this topic,and the fact that this person kept hanging onto this one verse for dear life in order to make this particular point did not bode well.
Check my posting history,I am not a troll-seeker.But I have been seeing a lot on the 'net lately about how the rtas intend to cynically use the 'religion" angle,as they consider it,for votes. This really burns me up,that they would cynically try to play on people's faith to score political points.And even then,they still don't get it,the principles behind those on the right of religious conviction.
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