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And why is there a double standard? Once upon a time the 'colored' person did not have the same freedoms as the WHITE person and the WHITE person loved every minute of it. Now if you have read your bible, been brought up in church then you should know one thing...it says in no uncertain terms that YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW! The White race is crying foul because they feel they are being DISCRIMINATED against BUT when they were discriminating against races not like themselves it was JUST FINE AND DANDY!! Now you are reaping what you sowed...plain and simple. If you don't believe me read your bible.
And BTW White ppl are not God's chosen ones...his chosen ppl are the Israelites. That's in the bible too!!
Reap what we sow? I didn't sow any of that. I never owned a slave in my life. I never denied anyone their basic human rights in my life. Oh and I would further bet that those who are now "paying ****** back" were NEVER discriminated against. I also am not ok with the way blacks used to be treated, it was shameful.
Martin Luther King Jr would roll over in his grave if he saw the pathetic ways blacks act today.
By your "logic" if someone hit my grandfather, I should be excused to go around hitting people exclaiming "yeah right when it was my grandpa being hit you thought it was funny."
I swear some people just don't think at all.
Here we go again! I thought you had gone to bed!! Listen....of course you did not own slaves or discriminate against anyone BUT
according to the bible every generation has to pay for the sins of their fathers and that is what I was saying. I did not make this up. Because the White man held captive a race of ppl to do as they bidded because they felt those ppl were beneath them is the reason your generation is paying for their sins. When White ppl cry DISCRIMINATION it's because they are reaping what their older generation sowed. You can say I'm wrong all you want to but that is the reason it's happening. The Black race is also reaping what their older generation sowed too...the chiefs in Africa and other countries were letting a foreigner take the men, women and children from their villiage to another place away from home because he was given trinkets that he had never seen before. You see it works both ways.
Could you quote chapter and verse for this claim? "according to the bible every generation has to pay for the sins of their fathers"
(Deuteronomy 24:16) - "Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin."
(Ezekiel 18:20) - "The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the fathers iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the sons iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself."
(Exodus 20:5) - "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,"
Exodus 20:5 is, of course, among the ten commandments. The Ten Commandments are arranged in covenant form. The Suzerain-Vassal treaty pattern of the ancient near east is followed in the Ten Commandments. This arrangement included an introduction of who was making the covenant (Exodus 20:2), what the covenant maker had done (20:2), laws (20:3-17), rewards (20:6,12), and punishments (20:5,7).
Covenantally, when a father misleads his family, the effects of that misleading are often felt for generations. This is because the father is being covenantally unfaithful and God has stipulated that there are punishments to breaking the covenant with God. That is the case with these verses that deal with the sins visited upon the children. If a father rejects the covenant of God and takes his family into sin and rejects God, the children will suffer the consequences, often for several generations. Whether or not this is fair is not the issue. Sin is in the world, consequences of sin affected many generations.
(Deuteronomy 5:9) - "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,"
Deuteronomy 24:16 is dealing with legal matters as the context 24:6-19 shows. Ezekiel 18:20 is merely recounting the Law of the Pentateuch. Therefore, the context of the second set of verses is dealing with the legality aspect within the Jewish court system. The previous set of verses deal with God visiting upon the descendents of the rebellious the consequences of the rebellious fathers' sins.