I know everyone has read about last week that the anti-abortion group Columbia Christians for Life claimed that Katrina is God's punishment for America's tolerance of abortion rights as well as the general sinful nature of the people of New Orleans. So, a question for the religious folks.
If Christ died for our sins, why did these people die for other people's sins? Did Christ die for the sins of a select few? Or are the dead in NO, who died for the sins of others, martyrs or messiahs?
And I’ll pose another question.
If you say that God is killing people for their sins, or in an entirely different scenario, the sins of others…and God being omnipotent would know that innocent people would die if he sent a hurricane, doesn’t that pretty much show a complete disavowal of Christianity in general.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t pretty much the main part of the New Testament (which makes Christians Christians) that a)God gave his only begotten son and b)that son died for our sins. To say that God is killing people for their sins pretty much denies that Christ died for them, no?
A friend of mine recently made the point earlier that the god who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, was replaced in the NT, by the aforementioned (John 3:16). Couldn’t it be said that the people who made these statements don’t believe in the NT and therefore, can’t be called “Christians”?
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