If God is so kind why did he put black people through years of misery and slavery?
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Those people knew what was going to happen. Those so called "Africans" knew it. because they turn away from God who did great things in Egypt and woundous works in the land of Ham.\n\nPSALM 83:4 THEY HAVE SAID, COME LETS CUT THEM OFF FROM BEING A NATION SO THAT THE NAME OF ISRAEL MAY BE NO MORE IN REMEMBRANCE .\n\n\nDANIEL 9:11 - YEAH ALL ISRAEL, HAVE TRANSGRESSED YOUR LAW, EVEN BY DEPARTING THAT THEY MIGHT NOT OBEY YOUR VOICE. THEREFORE, THE CURSE IS POURED UPON US, AND THE OATH THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF YHWH, BECAUSE WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST HIM.\n\n(13) AS IT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES ALL THIS EVIL IS COME UPON US..........\n\nDeu 28 32: YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL BE GIVEN UNTO ANOTHER PEOPLE, AND YOUR EYES SHALL LOOK, AND FAIL WITH LONGING FOR THEM ALL THE DAY LONG: AND THERE SHALL BE NO MIGHT IN YOUR HAND \n\n36: YAH SHALL BRING YOU, AND YOUR KING WHICH YOU SHALL SET OVER YOU UNTO A NATION WHICH NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN: AND THERE SHALL YOU, SERVE GODS (Religions) WOOD AND STONE.\n\n41: YOU SHALL BEGET SONS AND DAUGHTERS, BUT YOU SHALL NOT ENJOY THEM FOR THEY WILL GO INTO CAPTIVITY. \n\n48: THEREFORE SHALL YOU SERVE YOUR ENEMIES WHICH YAH SHALL SEND AGAINST YOU, IN HUNGER, AND IN THIRST, AND IN NAKEDNESS, AND IN THE WANT OF ALL THINGS: AND HE SHALL PUT A YOKE OF IRON UPON YOUR NECK, UNTIL HE HAVE DESTROYED YOU.\n\n64: "AND YAH SHALL SCATTER YOU AMONG ALL PEOPLE, FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER; AND THERE YOU SHALL SERVE GODS WHICH NEITHER YOU NOR YOUR FATHERS HAVE KNOWN\n\nLuke 21 24 AND THEY SHALL FALL BY THE EDGE OF THE SWORD, AND SHALL BE LED AWAY CAPTIVE INTO ALL NATIONS,....\n\nHOSEA 4:6 -- MY PEOPLE (Israel) ARE DESTROYED FOR THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE: BECAUSE YOU HAVE REJECTED KNOWLEDGE, I WILL ALSO REJECT YOU, THAT YOU SHALL BE NO PRIEST TO ME: SEEING YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE LAW OF YOUR HOLY ONE, I WILL ALSO FORGET YOUR CHILDREN. \n\nJEREMIAH 17-4 AND YOU, EVEN YOURSELF, SHALL DISCONTINUE FROM YOUR HERITAGE THAT I GAVE YOU: AND I WILL CAUSE YOU TO SERVE YOUR ENEMIES IN THE LAND WHICH YOU KNOW NOT\n\n\n"Hear O Yisrael Yah our Elohim is One"
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People suffer every day and live a life much more full of suffering than what jesus was said to go through. People live in poverty and loneliness and instead of trying to get themselves out of their problems with their own intellect and abilities, they pray to a god thinking they will get though their problems. People live their whole life like this, thinking their suffering is all part of a god's plan. That is suffering - thinking your pain, poverty and loneliness are all just part of a god's plan.
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im certain he wont get any, come on! he killed many innocents, regardless who they were, he dragged his ppl into stupid wars, he was a dictator with honors degree. plus, he was a racist. & u r asking that sir? may be Jesus would 4give him, but will God do the same?\nabsolutely not
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First of all there were black people in the bible *shock*. One of the disciples is even refered to as Niger, which in Greek, yes Greek, this is not a misspelling of "the N-word", it means- "The Black Man". So, blacks even followed at the footsteps of Jesus when he was living. In the New Testament era, slavery was not an all bad thing. Slaves were required by law to be released at age 33, they were paid for their work and recieved the lump-sum at their release, and after they were release they became Roman citizens. It actually was a pretty good deal, assuming your "owner" treated you well, and most did from all of the accounts we have. Most slaves once released used the skills they learned and the money they made to go open their own business. Oh, and most Roman slaves were white. Also, there is a Ethiopian eunich mentioned in the New Testament, most likely he was black, and he became a Christian as well. So, Christianity and black Christians far outdates the White to black slavery you are refering to.
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There are lots of people that have been through alot!! I don't care what color,race,sex you are. People are victims as long as you let yourself be. As for the end,the Bible does not lie,the Word was,is and always will be.
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Slavery, as it pertained to the jews, was different from in most other parts of the world.  Jews, for instance were required to free whatever slaves they had every seven years.  In addition, they were supposed to treat their slaves with decency - shouldn't rape or kill or beat half to death.  As a result, slavery was never very profitable or common among the Israelites.  Also, being a slave would therefore imply something different.  Given time, you would be free.  Thus you should serve your master with dedication and loyalty until such time as you were freed.  Love thy neighbor, no matter what station you are in life.
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God has always been more than fair if you look back through the Bible.  Even still people do evil things and can be forgiven by just simply asking.  Yes, this is how we want things in my opinion.
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God's way of saying racism sucks.\n\nHalf black half white people have excellent singing voices, too.
615507
Logically, people like you are letting children suffer around the world.  Don't try to blame God for your lazy and uncaring heart.
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Yes, in some ways God has let down a lot of different races and cultures over the centuries. Your people are just the modern example of how gods will sacrifice some cultures for another in the goal of meeting god’s will.  Races like yours fall in the category of pawns in the big game of life.\n\nPeople claim that you blacks are in your situation because you don’t work hard enough, or you don’t act in a particular way, or because you are not like us with our values. Many people honestly believe this because it justifies their genocidal pasts and actions in their involvement with other races.  Think about it. Your races development was impacted by the white man in a very big way and I don’t even have to go into the slavery issue; this is a given. For centuries your people and Africa’s resources have been fought over by the Europeans and other cultures. You race was always caught in the middle and ended up suffering for it.  Most races on the entire planet view Africans as savages even to this day your people are viewed as aliens on this planet. \n\nAfrica and its resources were fought over time and time again to the point where it had a profound effect on the many cultures in Africa. Cultures in that country, if given time to develop would have come together after the usual wars that cultures have with each other, which would have accelerated technological growth would have in time brought all of Africa together under one primary flag, and with the countries wealth and natural resources, would have made it a force to be reckoned with about time the Europeans and other races showed up.\n\nBut this never happened because your race and your races resources were attacked and your people were divided, which explains a great deal about the condition of Africa today.  All the war, hunger, and strife that’s going on in Africa today in this modern day is a direct result of Europe and other large nations interferences in the natural development of Africa and its people.  They are still after the resources in Africa and the best way to get them is to keep the country destabilized. Divide and Conquer, so your people in Africa are killing each other, having clan wars, fighting warlords, and whole regions have starving people. There are cities and universities, but the whites and the Asians want to put a stop to that. \n\nThen there are the African descended people who ended up in other countries as a result of slavery or in more modern times they immigrated to the larger nations: Europe, Canada, and the United States, or if they’re insane, New Zealand or Australia in search of a better life then they could find at home.  These poor souls (yourself included) are right in the middle of the lions den. I’m sure not a day passes that you are not put down, or reminded of your blackness and that it is somehow wrong. Not a day goes by when you don’t experience something negative regarding your race.  Each European or Asian nation on Earth that has a minority population of Black people mistreats them in some way. It’s sort of like how Africa and its people are treated by the Europeans; it just happens here on a smaller scale but it is the same pattern. For your people, it's a large, agreed upon, unspoken, character assassination.  You are kept divided. You are made to feel ashamed. You are told constantly that you aren’t good enough, and eventually, as you get older you start to believe it, and if you have children, as they start to grow up and they see that you are believing it and it makes them angry so a good portion of them take their frustrations out on the surrounding society and become menaces to society.\n\nYou find that the darker the skin is the more you are told that your are ugly, unattractive, and, the blacker you are the more fear follows you. Everyone not Black projects their fears into you.  At some point you stop trying and White and Asian society says “see, we told you they were lazy.”  You and your peo
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No, no, NO!\n\nWe hear about some poor person who died horribly after being tortured, or after suffering painfully from disease such as cancer or AIDS, or a baby who dies painfully, and any decent human being says "They didn't deserve that..."  But God, according to the Scriptures of various religions, thinks they did.  According to the scriptures and Christian/Jewish/Muslim belief, He knew about it, He could have prevented it, but He chose not to.  Disagreeing with God might be evil, but speaking for myself, I would have if I could have.  If that's evil, so be it.\n\nSo it seems that God is not as caring about humans as we were led to believe - assuming you accept a literal interpretation of the Bible.  So perhaps that is why He (and some of his followers) are so insensitive to the suffering of humanity, and would condemn even good people to eternity in hell.  In His viewpoint, apparently, they do deserve hell.\n\nI do not believe that anyone, let alone loving, charitable people who have not followed a particular religion's doctrine (such as saying the "sinner's prayer") deserves an eternity of torment.  That is one of the reasons that while I remain a spiritual person, I no longer identify myself with organized religion, including Christianity.
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This does not apply to anyone during the current times. It applied to the Old Testament people, but now we are in the New Testament. Instead we are commanded to BE the servants for other people, but not in slavery but more in humbleness, trying to help the person out.
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If god exists, then he probably had a hand in starving those children.  In the past he hasn't been above killing innocent children.  He was upset at some Egyptians, so what did he do?  He killed the innocent Egyptians instead: the first born cute babies.
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Guilt.  They were the biggest slaveholders and the rationalizations that allowed them to deny their basic humanity came from what they read in the Bible.  Everything regarding the rules of slave ownership was laid right out for them in the Bible.  Unlike other Christians, they cherry picked from the Old Testament to justify their evil.  Generations later they can't let go of the beliefs that are so destructive.  In order to hide from the realization that their ancestors were awful people they need to cling to their rationalizations.\n\nEdit - Hey, why the thumbs down, it's a historical fact that slaveholders perverted the Bible to justify their "right" to keep slaves.  Read Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy for examples.
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I do not think that God punished all nephilims, Actually a profesor I had in theology class told us once that Samsom had the nazareato promise which made him strong because of the promise of never cut his baby hair. Well, the thing is he told us that he was a giant or a descendent of one. So I think GOD doesn't think they are bad they are or were individuals and He might have gave them what they deserve not as a race but as part of His creation. And also my personal opinion is that some of the tall races we still have are nephilims descendants. Because God's people were and are short! Don't know just my .2!!
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Actually if I were God, which I would never ever desire to be, and the people on earth were like this, like they are now, I would destroy earth and not regret it. Good thing God is love and mercy and grace and compassionet. But the day will soon come where the earth will be destroyed anyway. God has more patience than I do.
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funny how you didn't point out how "GOD" made all of those people before kill people, he killed people himself with floods, he tortured people to prove their trust in him (Job), he is just so perfect, isn't he? you're right!