The Mormon Faith & Black Folks
Question #30
Q. If God is a God of love, and we are His children,
then why would He want to curse His own children?
A. The LORD only wants to bless His children, but
sometimes He must reprimand us. He curses us for the same reason that loving
parents correct their own children when they are doing wrong. The Apostle Paul
wrote to the Hebrews:
“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh
unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord,
nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealing with you as
with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are
partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons.
9 Futhermore we have had fathers of our flesh which
corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection
unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after
their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his
holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to by
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them that are.(Hebrews 12:5-11)
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