Made for a purpose

[Blev]

I don't think we should blame God for the death of this child.


Good for you!




I know some of the replys would be: sin in the world. I know this. But for what puropse were these people made? (especially the baby....the baby was born sound - no diseases - but was murdered.)


You're right. There is sin the world and thats why so much of these kinds of things happen. Jesus said:


The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy: I have come that they may have Life, and may have it in abundance. (John 10:10)


The baby was created for the same purpose as any of us, for God's pleasure and to discover and live out the plan He has for their life. But because of man's free will, as you mentioned and also how people are used by the enemy, plus 'accident' caused by the enemy, many do not live long enough to fulfill God's will in their life. Even some who live to age 80 never enter into the best that God has for them.

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[Eugene]

John 3:16 For God so loved the world.

1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.

Acts 15:14 . . God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. As Abraham in Genesis Chapter Twenty-four sought a bride for his son Isaac from among his own people, God is doing that today among us.

Revelation 3:9 . . I have loved thee.

Hebrews 2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

 

[Blev]

Maybe I should also learn to ignore certain things too.

A lot of things do happen...they get me worried. I should stop getting worried. --

Heavenly Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, that you flll Classik with Your kind of peace which passes all understanding. Give him more of Your grace to help him cast all his cares on you and trust you to help him with any situation that comes along, being confident You will give him Your wisdom when he needs it.

 

[Classik]

Thanks I believe in prayers

 

[Blev]

Thanks I believe in prayers

Great
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[Danus]

The process of natural birth cannot produce any child of God. See Jn. 1:13 and Rom. 9:8. Each naturally borned person to be a child of God must first be born again of God to be classified as a child of God. Your term "He created us" is not correct.

I'm not sure what you're saying. The bible tells us that God created everything, he created every person.

I appreciate all your replys. Thanks a lot. Danus and Aardverk actually came close to the question I have in mind.

But before I proceed I will try to answer Aardverk's post.
Some of the replys in this thread www.christianforums.net/showthread.php?t=45187 address your post. Just go through the thread. See post #8 in the link (there's hope, like Tim says: creation will one day be restored as it was intended to be


Back to my question!
We are made for a purpose - I agree. But how justified is this statement. I was made to do the will of God. For me alone? For everyone.
This incident should make my intent clear:
My neighbor (that was ages ago) flirted, got pregnant. She was discouraged from committing abortion. She was a teenager. I think she was 14 or thereabout. She labored with the pregnancy and finally gave birth to a baby. You know what happened? She killed the baby after she gave birth to her. [My God...that was wicked of her. It could have been better if she had done it while she was still pregnant... They are both murder tho.. I don't justify any of such acts].

Was this baby also made for a purpose? For what purpose was this baby made/created? What role did he/she play in the world? Was her role to be murdered by her frustrated murder? Was her role just to take her/his first breath and then cry and die?

This brings me to another conclusion that God actually created Adam and Eve and said to them be fruitful. Human beings today only respond to God's instruction of 'be fruitful and multiply'. I don't think we should blame God for the death of this child. Did God create the baby to just be born and be murdered? It is our decision to have babies - thus obeying 'be fruitful and multiply'. Free will! The mother could have chosen not to get illicitly pregnant.

Then how is this baby made for a purpose? Sorry for my ramble.

Again, Moses didn't enter the promised land. Moses was made for a purpose? He served the people but didn't serve himself. We know how he ended.

This brings me to Aardverk's statement. For what purpose were these people made: an aborted baby, a baby that died after birth, a person that suffered sicknesses and died, a deformed man who doesn't know what's going on in his environment, a down syndrome, etc etc etc. Made for a purpose? What purpose?

I know some of the replys would be: sin in the world. I know this. But for what puropse were these people made? (especially the baby....the baby was born sound - no diseases - but was murdered.)

I gather you feel that with the idea of people being created for a purpose is to say each fills a role, like in a play?

To me evil is a lack of Love. Like dark is a lack of light. Is a murdered child created to be so? Is that a role to be filled in creation. Clearly no when you consider the nature of God, what He has said of his creation, His intent, desire and purpose for all.

 

[Eugene]

Genesis 18:25 "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

Romans 9:14 "What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?

Romans 9:17 "For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth."

Can we judge God's purpose in anything? We may even look at the sons of David; 2 Samuel 12:23 David's child taken although to be with him in Abraham's bosom, or Absolom turned against his father only to be taken by a tree in 2 Samuel 18:9-10. Both were lessons to David. God has righteous plans in everything He does. Did these things accomplish that for which they were sent?

Acts 13:22 God said, "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will."