How did I become retarded?

[GoldenShower]

You lost him?!!! You guys seriously need to start taking better care of you gods. He might be halfway across the US now.

[Didymus Much]

Re: How did I come to find Jesus?

You lost him?!!! You guys seriously need to start taking better care of you gods. He might be halfway across the US now.

You're as clever as you are funny. Or the other way around, take your pick.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: How did I become retarded?

You lost him?!!! You guys seriously need to start taking better care of you gods. He might be halfway across the US now.

What are you talking about? The only person I ever lost was my wife to Lesbiopathy: thanks for opening old wounds

YIC

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: How did I become retarded?

You lost him?!!! You guys seriously need to start taking better care of you gods. He might be halfway across the US now.

God is not constrained by space or time. Even if He is not apparently present, He is here by my side and yours nevertheless.

[GoldenShower]

Re: How did I find Jesus

You asked me if I had found Jesus, that means you were obviously looking for him. But yes, I found him. He was under the sofa, hiding

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: How did I find Jesus

Jesus ...was under the sofa, hiding

I think he was resting. God rested after creating everything - I think we can understand Jesus resting after ½ an hour with you.

[Didymus Much]

Re: How did I find Jesus

...He was under the sofa...

I neglected to add original to my above.

[Karameek]

Re: How did I become retarded?

What are you talking about? The only person I ever lost was my wife to Lesbiopathy: thanks for opening old wounds

YIC

OMG I just burst out laughing and I so needed that since I've been working non-stop for the past 7 hours. Thank you!!!

[Karameek]

Re: How did I become retarded?

You lost him?!!! You guys seriously need to start taking better care of you gods. He might be halfway across the US now.

We don't have Gods. There is only one true God, The Almighty.

[James Hutchins]

Re: How did I become retarded?

Him freind, I am happy to find the smell of your own urine has not repulsed you from life.
I was reading the title of the tread you made and I know, many people just like, the ones with basic cognitive ability, perhaps may wonder the same thing.
It is simple, God made you like He did to punish those in your life. Be sure to remind them of it every day. Once your family is dead, God may see your devotion to Him and He may cure you of yourt retardedness.
Exodus 20:5-6 (also Dt 5:9) I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 24:16
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.
Matthew 23:35 (also Lk 11:50-51)
And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
I think these passages can be understood by looking at what God does in the Bible. When parents do wrong or experience punishment on earth, their children share the ill effects - if a parent is put in jail, their children are adversely affected; if a parent is abusive or negligent, their children suffer. This sort of thing occurs in many places in the Bible. For instance, Achan and his family died as a result of his disobeying God (Joshua 7). However, while children often shared the earthly punishment of their parents, they would not be punished for their parents' sins in the afterlife. Ezekiel 18 makes it clear that the real guilt belongs to the person who sinned, not their family. Deuteronomy 24:16 is an application of this principle to human-administered justice: while God decreed that some sins merited the death penalty, humans were not to apply the penalty to anyone other than the guilty party. If, as in the case of Achan, a family or nation was to be corporately punished, only God had the authority to decide that corporate punishment was merited.
On the other hand, God often extends mercy to the families of people who are righteous. Rahab's family was allowed to survive because she respected God (Joshua 2). God spared Noah's family because Noah was righteous (Genesis 7:1). And of course the nation of Israel was blessed because of Abraham's obedience to God (Genesis 22:17-18). Again, the blessings received by a righteous person's family only affected their life on earth. A person's relatives will not be saved or condemned in the afterlife because of that person's actions; rather each will be judged as individuals.
In other words, the true distinction is between life on earth and the afterlife. People do not receive precisely what they deserve while they are on earth; they are affected by the actions of those around them, and thus can be said to be punished (i.e. experience suffering) for their relatives' wrongs. But this is a temporary state of affairs; when people enter the eternal afterlife, they will be judged as individuals, and what punishment they receive will be only for things they are truly guilty of.
Why then would God corporately punish a family when not all of them had sinned? In some cases, the relatives of the wrongdoers shared in their guilt by failing to stop the person from doing wrong or rebuke them for their wrong. In other cases, it's possible that the loss of the wrongdoer's family line was part of their punishment.
Finally, what about the passages in Matthew and Luke, which seem to say the Jews of Jesus' day would be held accountable for murders committed by previous generations? Jesus' statement is true in a figurative sense, i.e. that his contemporaries who rejected him would experience a far greater condemnation than others who rejected him without the benefit of hearing his teaching or seeing his miracles. The Jewish leaders were expected to know the Scriptures and be in close relationship with God, both of which would have enabled them to recognize Jesus as the Messiah. They were given advance notice of the Messiah's arrival by John the Baptist. They also had many opportunities to hear Jesus' teaching, interact with him and witness the miracles he performed, especially since Jesus focused his ministry on the Jews. Since they had far more opportunity to accept Jesus than anyone else, their punishment for rejecting him would be far greater than that of others