Does GOD punish Chinese people, too?
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God punishes everyone. why would chinese people be exempt?
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I think you may be looking for a specific answer here, and I'm sure I'm not going to be the one to give it. \n\nYes, God can NOT punish us for being wrong, but he also CAN punish us.  He would rather not.  [If you were a Christian believer, this is where I would tell you that Jesus died for your sins and took that punishment upon himself, but you aren't looking for a religious lecture, are you.]\n\nSo, my answer is, "Yes, God can forgive us for being wrong."  and "Yes, God can NOT punish us for being wrong."\n\n****But he also CAN punish us.****
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Of course it will. God is not going to punish a "non-accountable" child for the sins of its parents.\n\n**********************\nA "bastard" in the Old Testament means a child born of an Israelite father and a heathen [non-Israelite] mother.\n\n God had commanded the Israelites not to intermarry with the nations around them, but they did, and God called their offspring bastards. Many generations had to pass before his progeny could be allowed into the congregation of the Lord, another name for the nation of Israel.
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When the Chinese, during their daily lives, get a foreign substance (a powder or spice) up their nose, or post-nasal drip, they always shout, "Feng Shui." Then the Christians say, "God bless you!"
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Yes...see link below...\n\nhttp://www.wbtc.com/news/030908pei.ling.price.htm\n\nand yes again....\n\nhttp://www.oldcatholic.co.uk/3_years_in_prison_for_distributing_bibles_in_china.htm
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Wow, are you ever way off.\n\nIt is only recently that the East has had such poverty.  They were advanced beyond the West in many eras.  \n\nTheir spirituality is so pure.  They do not have this limited vision of God, that there is one way and one way only to God, and that if you don't follow that way, then you are off to hell.\n\nThey encourage spiritual seeking, thinking deeply, searching the soul, looking deep within, and realizing the ultimate Truth.  Whereas in the West, you just read a book, and mimic whatever it tells you to believe.\n\nEDIT:  I also want to add that you are possibly judging spirituality by materiality, and that is not correct in my opinion.\nI would rather be happy and poor than wealthy and miserable.  I think in the West, people are wealthy and miserable.  Those who live simpler lives are often much more fulfilled spiritually.\n\nI once heard a Chinese man say that he "tried Taoism" but was so unimpressed, because he never got rich practicing Taoism!  How silly!  You do not practice a religion to get rich!  His mind was focusing on the wrong goals.
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Hi, I don't believe God is a punishing God.  He is a loving God and loves us unconditionally.  I think we do the punishing by feeling guilty for criticizing others and not feeling good about ourselves.  When we are happy, content and feel good about ourselves we don't judge or criticize others.
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Father God's in heaven, Jesus at his right hand praying for us and the Holy spirit working actively through christians.\n\nFor example:\n\nMy sister had chronic epilepsy - God didn't sit by and watch - he healed her miraculously. \n\nMy wife had polycystic ovaries and we weren't able to have children - God didn't sit by and watch - he healed her miraculously and we now have 3 children (do see my question on miracles on this site). \n\nA member of our church has just come from Africa - and he's so full of how great God is and all the things He's doing for people there (incl. people being healed of HIV!). \n\nSimilarly check out brother Yun's book "The Heavenly Man" for the miraculous things (incl. healings and miraculous escapes) God's doing in China despite the christians being rounded up and thrown in prison and tortured. \n\nRead Jackie Pullinger's book "Chasing the dragon" to see the miraculous things (incl. people set free from heroin instantly with no cold turkey) God's doing in the walled city in Hong Kong. \n\nAnd there are many more books detailing God at work available through Amazon.\n\nI suspect you asking because you think God is sitting around doing nothing while there's suffering (which would make him an evil being) - but the truth is He is very much active! \n\nNow have you the balls to seriously follow this up?
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reincarnation is not a buddhist idea...its a hindu idea. buddhist believes in rebirth.\n*****************\n(superstitions,) taoism, confucianism & buddhism will always be in every chinese's psyche. communism will never be able to erase it. \n-ask any 2nd generation ABC (american born chinese/ australian born chinese), we all agree that fillial piety comes 1st. (evidently, fillial piety is a confucian's virtue).\n-folk culture are also running high on every chinese. during chinese new year, the youngs will receive red packet, & pray to gods, with lion/ dragon dance...etc\n(that is evidently taoism & folk culture)\n- folk religion, like praying to ancestors, burning papers,etc are so closely connected to every chinese family.\n- shaolin temples (buddhist)/ wutang (taoist) may see a decline in  monks & disciples, but their temples are always full of visitors for prayers.\n- death is a BIG issue for every chinese...which funeral you see in chinese are simply buried? it has to go thru' taoist/ buddhist rites 1st. \nso, for all the sino- chinese in the mainland, with the relaxation of the religious rules, they may have lost touch with religions, it is never lost. it's gaining momentum...but still, money comes 1st, they are seeking out opportunites to earn money 1st before religions.\nnevertheless, like i mentioned, these 3 doctrines are deeply embedded in every chinese, mainland or overseas.\n***********\nislam came through to china from the silk road, hence you can see that the communities around the silk road routes are converted to muslims (example xinjiang). it has been in china for over 1500years, but its effects are still limited. the famous muslim in china is still: zheng he.\n**********\nchristianity/ catholic faith is slowly gaining in popularity. but presently, it is still having its setbacks. i believe the communist country is wary of it, with its association of its revolutionary past.\nshanghai was once a populous christian/ catholic city, before the 2nd world war. after that, most christians revoutionaries (pro- democracy) lost & retreated to taiwan.
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This is a yes and no issue.  \nFor the yes portion first.  When a group of people fall away from God and cease to follow his teachings they lose his spirit and guidance. Later when they have children they often teach their children the same false teachings they have espoused.  Therefore this curse of ungodliness is passed on BY THE PARENTS, not by a vengeful God.\n\nNow for the no portion.  \nGod does NOT punish children for the acts of their parents or their ancestors.  I believe that man will be punished for his own sins and not for Adam's transgression.  The belief that children are born sinful, due to a transgression of Adam is a false doctrine with no foundation in scriptural truth.  Any religion that teaches that children must be baptized denies the atonement of Christ (or they don't understand it) and they are teaching a doctrine that is out of harmony with the gospel.  And now for a criticism of my character and answer...here is the Internet's watchDOG...Pregotwin!
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God probably wouldn't care as long as you are following the law that he or she put forth in the Scriptures. It's just that over the years Christians have manipulated the meanings of these Scriptures to endorse their bullshit and the way they treat people.
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But taking God out of society always leads to repression and destruction of society. do not have to look any further then Nazi's Chinese Russians Vietnam . for people not to learn from their mistakes....
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Answering your question must keep two things in tension. On the one hand there are the commands of God to punish the wicked nations occupying the Promise Land upon Israel's entry into it back in the first six books of the Bible. Couple this with God's using neighboring nations to oppress His own people in the rest of the "historical" books in the early portion of the Bible, and one finds a God Who uses nations (righteous or unrighteous) to punish unrighteous nations as a whole. On the other hand there are Christ's commands to love one's neighbor. Although the original context referred to fellow Israelites, Jesus applied this rule to a hated half-breed nation between the northern and southern portions of His nation. He even went a step further by instructing His followers to love their enemies.\n\nSo, on the one hand one finds the Christian God commanding nations to kill nations for their immorality. On the other hand one finds the Christian God commanding love toward one's neighbors and enemies.\n\nThis dilemma has been a matter of frequent discussion throughout the history of the Christian church. What is the Christian position on every type of violence from self-defense on a personal level to world war on a global level? Should Christians advocate taking up the sword to punish evildoers, or should they advocate a pacifist position? If you haven't become familiar with Augustine's "Just War Theory" I'd recommend researching it. His position, slightly modified to fit a variety of circumstances, has become the cornerstone of subsequent Christian positions on violence and war.
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because it reminds them of their jeebus cult, and it makes them feel warm and gooey inside.\n\nbut they'l call it an "emblem of sacrifice" to indicarte that his intent was to sacrifice himself for people.\n\nin other words, he committed suicide.  like stepping in front of a bus, he willingly allowed his killers to kill him.  but even xians have a way of justifying THAT contradiction.  how silly!\n\nbut THEN they'll say God gave his own begotten son.\n\nso, did jeebus step in front of the bus, or did god shove jeebus in front of the bus.  was god driving the bus??\n\nwhat complete nonsense!!!  it's the silly, fairy tale crap that is allowed to grow and expand, without any thought for logic or reason, when people are BRAINWASHED.
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Yes, in fact, many of God's chosen were people who had sinned against Him...\n\nTake Moses, for example, he killed a man.  Jesus's disciple, Paul, was originally named Saul, and persecuted many Christians, and had them killed.  I think it is important that these examples are here, to show us that God uses everyday people for His purposes.  We tend to think these people in the Bible were special, but the only things that made them different from us were their actions after taking God into their hearts.\n\nTo God, sin is sin.   A lie, or adultery, is just as bad as murder.  And if the sinner truly asks for forgiveness, and accepts God in his life, then, YES....they WILL be forgiven.\n\nPS>>>>\n\nOn a personal note, this was very hard for me to accept.  When my seven year old daughter was molested by a family "friend", I could not handle the thought that if someday, that creep found God, and asked, that he would be forgiven. That he might walk the streets of heaven with my daughter....NO WAY!!! It wasn't until years later, that I realized.....if that creep TRULY asked God for forgiveness, and turned his life around....then he would then be a NEW person...not the creep anymore.\n\n\nPPS>>>Mano, it's like the story of the prodigal son who took his inheritance and left, drank and spent his money on women, then, years later came home.  The father threw a party, and the son who had stayed with the father was angry.  Why should the bad son get a party?  I didn't understand this either, until just a few years ago.  If I live right, why should those who don't get the same treatment?\n The thing is, we ALL are "bad"....we all sin.  None of us is the "good" son.  I came to realize this, and that what we humans consider "good" is filth to the Lord.  Even the best person, who is charitable, kind, and loving, is still a sinner, has failed to follow God's law at some point.  That's why Christ stood in our place, and when God looks at all us filthy humans, He sees the shining perfectness of Christ instead.\n\nHope this helps.
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I am an American who has been living in China for over four years. Many of the things said and written about China is actually not true.\n\nThere is the speculation that China is the fastest growing Christian population and it is underground. The fact is, the Christian church I attend is forced to have several Sunday services, due to the increased amount of people becoming Christians. There are security people near the enterance; I have watched them incognito; they assure there is no noise or traffic to interfere with the service.\n\nI teach at a university and am a judge for many English contests. Even with some military people and people who are Communist in the audience, the contestants will include references to god. During the last contest, the girl that won made references to God, heaven, Bible, and baptism. When I give the keynote speeches, nobody has ever approached me to disregard anything I was prepared to say. Many of the soldiers and Communist party people will shake my hand and thank me for the nice speech.\n\nI have listened to the English Channel news; Yahoo news has most of the same stories. When anyone in a news station says anything bad about a president of prime minister of another country, it is usually cut away.\n\nSure there are problems in China; the country must be able to stay on an even plateau to take care of and feed 1.3 million people. China has come a long way. The idea that things are as bad as many people think is false.
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Let me think ............ Christian in China and Sudan just to name two places