I need some help please.

[BlessTheFall]

It's a kind of long story so bear with me please. I would like some help on this matter.

My mother and father were not married when I was born. My father was in the army and was stationed over in Germany when he met my mother. She was travelling at the time and happened to be in Stuttgart where my father was based. My mother tells me that they intended to get married before I was born but my father died in a road accident before they could get married.

What does this mean for me? I have been a good Christian, I pray everyday for our troops around the world fighting the Lord's war against the false religions but I am unsure as to whether I can stop myself from going to hell because of my parents failure to marry before my birth. I also don't agree with the fact my parents didn't wait until after they were married before they started a family.

Any help is much appreciated and I'm forever in your debt.

James

[David Goldman]

Re: I need some help please.

It's a kind of long story so bear with me please. I would like some help on this matter.

My mother and father were not married when I was born. My father was in the army and was stationed over in Germany when he met my mother. She was travelling at the time and happened to be in Stuttgart where my father was based. My mother tells me that they intended to get married before I was born but my father died in a road accident before they could get married.

What does this mean for me? I have been a good Christian, I pray everyday for our troops around the world fighting the Lord's war against the false religions but I am unsure as to whether I can stop myself from going to hell because of my parents failure to marry before my birth. I also don't agree with the fact my parents didn't wait until after they were married before they started a family.

Any help is much appreciated and I'm forever in your debt.

James

Your parents essentially had a "common law" marriage. If your parents weren't sleeping with other people and remained committed to each other monogamously until your father died, then there is no sin transferred to you.

Having said that, however, that's not a free ticket to heaven. You still need to do accept Christ as your savior, and read and follow the KJV1611 Bible, just like any other True Christian (tm) aspirant.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: I need some help please.

Brother David has a warm heart but, I feel that to offer false hope must be worse than declaring the truth.

I read your post and see that you are (i) playing the sympathy card and (ii) laboring under a hope that, because you seem to have no direct fault, you are in some way excused your bastardy. This is not so.

De:23:2: A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Now assuming that a generation is 20 years, we are looking at 200 years before the illicit fruit of your mother’s sinful loins may become members of the congregation.

That said, it is possible but difficult, by diligent reading to live a Saved™ life and thereafter to be judged before God, Whose verdict I could not foretell.