How far reaching are God's powers?

[Peebothuhlu]

I see what you're getting at now. The answer is a bit complicated though, and you'll likely not find it satisfactory.

For one, we need to determine the nature of the sin meant to pass through to the next generation. I like to use the sacrifice of children to Molech as an example.

Say you are a priest of Molech, and you have children. Then let's say that you accept another's child to be burned alive as a sacrifice to your god. You perform the ritual.

Next thing you know, God has sent an army against your town to slaughter every man, woman and child, including your own. Is He not justified in doing so? The priest sacrificed a child, and the town stood by and let it happen. They all deserve to die, thinking they could sacrifice the children of others to further their own prosperity.

But there are other ways we pass children through fire. Spoiling them is one way. When you spoil a child instead of discipline it, you get people of the sort who comprise Antifa, though they're really just a more obvious illustration of it. Spoiled brats with no concept whatsoever of right and wrong, who burn down buildings of "innocent" people to make political points. Make no mistake, when God takes to correcting members of Antifa, it will be very much as though they were being burned alive.

Sin is the real cancer; it spreads like a virus. Cancer (and viruses) are simply a physical expression of the spiritual reality.

I realize you might still wonder about children who don't even have the opportunity to grow up. Who knows the kinds of sins parents have committed against others that have brought intense suffering upon other children? Things ripple in this world in many inconceivable ways. I could simply steal some small amount from someone that causes a cascade of disaster and results in the suffering of children. Why should someone's own children not suffer as a result, particularly if that is the thing the sinning parent most fiercely protects? Is that not an eye for an eye?

So... an aphorical tale that some how is supposed to be a justification now for sin=cancer?

Still not seemingly able to answer the question of the 'How' sin actually works, though.

I want to understand 'Sin' as a noun. Not s a verb. 'Doing sin' doesn't explain how sin is supposed to causing all these ills for which it is being blamed.


 

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