Who decides which children live and which ones die?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all about many of these thoughts of peace and grace until I stop and consider child abuse. The thought of someone killing or allowing the killing of his or her own child (usually young and usually in a horrific circumstance) doesn't bring me closer to God. I don't sit back and think that the poor baby died a painful, tortuous death for a reason.

What is God trying to show those parents?

At least I take comfort that Caleb and the Disney boy were loved. Those babies that know nothing but pain from the moment they're born make me wonder if anything out there is really trying to save us.

PP, why do you assume that there is a reason, or at least a good enough reason that you will accept or understand?

The situations you describe are evil and incomprehensible. I believe that they are perpetrated/ allowed to happen by Satan himself. If the Holy Spirit can be alive in followers of Christ, doesn't it make sense that evil is alive in the form of persons literally inhabited by evil, aka Satan?

God hates this even more than you do.

But apparently can't do anything to stop it. So pray as you might, Satan might get a grip on your precious child. Is that what you're saying? Seems easier and more sensible to just cut out the notions of a sometimes helpless God and an always evil Satan lurking around seeking to harm your child.

Yes, of course. This happens all the time. What about kids who grow up and turn to drugs or prostitution or other sinful lifestyles? I would bet this occurs in many families, despite the fact that they had parents who prayed for God's protection on them. We are each individually accountable to God, however.

Does God punish people who don't worship him because their kids didn't turn out well?

I'm not sure if I'm responding to the same poster in all of these posts, but someone here seems obsessed with the idea of "punishments" and "reward/ abandonment" from God, as if they are literally keeping score.

No, God does not "punish" these people, IMO. These kids grow up to make their own decisions, for which they are responsible.

How do you know this? I thought people who didn't worhsip God went to hell.