Momto2boys973 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:37 am
Frau Holle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 3:41 pm
Aletheia wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:21 pm
Matthew 10:29-31
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
There’s no promise that life on earth will be easy or free from pain. In fact, it is warned of.
That is true.
I don’t believe the purpose of life is suffering, though. God made many beautiful things for us to enjoy. But this isn’t a world of leisure, it’s a world of hard work and growth. And for that, pain is sometimes necessary. We may not always be able to choose the challenges we face, but we choose how we face them. That’s where our free will comes in.
From the
Auschwitz page:
The fate of child and youth prisoners was no different in principle from that of adults (with the exception of the children in the family camps). Just like adults, they suffered from hunger and cold, were used as laborers, and were punished, put to death, and used as subjects in criminal experiments by SS doctors.
At the end of 1943, separate barracks were set up for children above the age of 2. These did not differ in any way from the barracks assigned to adults. The camp authorities did not even distribute milk or appropriate food rations for infants, thus sentencing them to starve to death. Only the children in the camp hospital were a little better off—the prisoner nursing and medical staffs tried to provide them with additional blankets, food, clothing, and medicine.
The hardest thing was trying to help the Jewish children who were at risk of selection for the gas chambers.
The extermination of children in Auschwitz and their transfer to other camps, especially in the final stages, ensured that few of them survived until liberation.
The available records indicate that there were at least 700 children and youth prisoners, including about 500 under 15, in Auschwitz when the Soviet soldiers arrived. More than half of these children were Jewish.
The liberated children were badly exhausted. Many of them ended up in the camp hospitals organized by the Soviets and the Polish Red Cross on the grounds of the main camp immediately after liberation.
After examining 180 children aged 6 months to 14 years, a forensic medical commission reported that the majority of them were suffering from diseases acquired in the camp. 60 percent showed vitamin deficiency and overall weakening of the organism, and 40% of them had tuberculosis. All of the children were underweight by 5 to 17 kilograms, despite the fact that the majority of them had been transported to Auschwitz in the second half of 1944, and had spent only a few months there.
Exactly what "hard work and growth" did God expect 2 year old babies to gain from being starved to death in concentration camps?
Before you answer, have a read of
Aktion_T4#Killing_of_children. If you can stomach it.
How exactly does a 2 year hold have "freewill to face bravely" a lethal injection they are trusting until the last is from a doctor who is meant to be good?