Why is obeying your Mother and Father rewarded with being given a long life ?
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Now, I don't know much about the Holey Bibble yet since I am newly reborn.  However, it's not nice to make your mom and dad mad.  Praise the Lord and I love Jesus.   Amen ;).\n\nP.S.  Even though I sometimes listen to them, I don't want to live too long cause that being old stuff  can get just nasty.\n\nOhh, Sasha needs points, Rev, you got to do the right thing here, ya know.
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Obey them, study hard, get a good job, be a good person, useful to society, have a family is you can, bring up your children well, be loving and kind to your wife, be filial to your parents and take care of them when it's required. Keep them in your life at all times.
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well thats very nice for your mother.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nbe more specific?
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Because they love their child. And they want to give it better future and life better than they lived. Thats it. You will also do same with your child.
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Someday, like everyone else, your life on Earth will end and your physical body will die. But your spirit will not die. At the time of physical death, your spirit will go to the spirit world, where you will continue to learn and progress. After we are resurrected we will be judged and rewarded for the things we have done in this life. \nJesus Christ taught His Apostles that in His Father’s house are “many mansions” (John 14:2). Our loving Heavenly Father is anxious to reward all of His children according to their obedience to His commandments and their willingness to follow the Savior. \nThose who do these things and are worthy to return to the presence of God and Christ become “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Romans 8:17) of all that the Father has. They will return to live with Heavenly Father and with their families in His eternal glory. \nThose who choose not to follow our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ will receive a reward according to what they have done in this life, but they will not enjoy the glory of living in the presence of God.
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Unguided children will push limits in order to understand what behaviour is accepted (good) or not (bad). The elders have more experience compared to the children. It is therefore the elders' duty to guide children.
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How about a serious answer.\n\nThere are two things that contribute to the iniquity of the father being passed to the children and grandchildren.  The first is genetics.  Through sin, we destroy our bodies, and this gets passed on.\n\nThe second factor is that children learn by watching others.  When they see us sinning, they get the impression that it is OK, and they pick up the habbit.  \n\nGod will not punish the children for the sins of their parents, but will punish them for their own sins.
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One of the 10 commandments is to Honor your father and mother.  Alot of elderly are seen as parents my many, even though that many may not even be related.  \n\nAs of the rights, and in laws, rules, etc., they have guidelines, too.\n\nBut they all deserve respect because they hold our history in their minds and hearts.
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Whether a person chooses to take their life prematurely or not, is their decision.  As a nurse for 35 years, I have seen many people die a slow painful death, so I can understand the desire to end ones suffering.  I couldn't  do it though, because I would feel there must be a reason for me to stay on this earth a little longer.  To shorten my life,  I would become  accountable to a higher power.  The one who gave me life in the first place and really is the only one who has the right to take mine away.
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It can, has for my parents,57 years, mom passed first, then daddy. It takes commentment, love, listening, understanding, communications. It can happen.
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Clearly people are designed to live MUCH longer than they do. Trees live to be over a thousand years old. Turtles can get older than people. Our brains only use a smidgen of their overall capacity before we grow old and die......something is wrong. \n\nHumanity was originally designed and placed to enjoy living, and all the experiances, arts, sciences, work and play that goes along with that. That orignal purpose WILL be realized, once the great issue of universal sovereignty is proven and established. \n\nHow can we as imperfect human decendants of sinners even contemplate what that experience will be like after that great day? People then will not be the way they are now. They will not be bored......ever!
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We are to honor them but not follow their lead if it is wrong. Pray for them, then ask God to help you do whats right.It can be hard. Im a christian myself in which my dad is not so i can relate a little.Good Luck and God Bless!
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Spiritually it was intended to be that you were obliged to give that child or children the religious education that the parents couldn't should they die.  In today's society, it has come to mean something different, such as taking care of a child or children PERIOD, should something happen to the parents.  It has the connotation of being there for that child, of remaining in that childs life, etc... possibly helping out financially or physically if needed.
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No, becuz when you have your relationship, they dont have anything to do with that.  You are happy with that person, this person loves you...they may even be your soulmate, you never let something great go, becuz of what your mother or father says.  \n\nYou live your life for you and no one else.  If you listen to what your parents say your whole entire life, you will never be happy.
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People get caught up in carnal pleasures, and approval from the world.  It's easy to seek earthly things, they are here and now. Just like Adam and Eve had the whole of Eden to live in and walk in the cool of the day with the Lord, but choose instead the lie of Satan, we are still being deceived. It is only through the power of the Holy Spirit can we overcome the "old man". \nOf course God's approval in most important. His Word should be our life map. be blessed
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I don't know about others, but my mom and dad gave me life, not God.  God gives me free will, so that's my answer.
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This is a great example of Christian love, don't you think ?  You break a rule that was written by a multi billion dollar publishing company and they tell your parents, family and friends to treat you as if you were dead.  \n\nIn their own magazines they tell members to be thankful that they don't live back when..."an Israelite wrongdoer was executed, no more family association was possible. In fact, if a son was a drunkard and a glutton, his parents were to bring him before the judges, and if he was unrepentant, the parents were to share in the just executing of him, 'to clear away what is bad from the midst of Israel.'  Nice of the JW's to stop executing people that they consider to be "wrongdoers". \n\nI am being shunned...and all I did was decide (when I finally turned 18 years old) that I did not agree with JW teachings...and stopped going to JW meetings.  For that my parents are not allowed to speak to me.\n\nWhat a loving organization !