My children have sinned and I want to punish them in a way that follows God's example. How should I do it?

Question

A.) Drown them the way God did during Noah's time

B.) Burn them to death like Soddam and Gamorah

C.) Turn them into pillars of salt like Lot's wife

D.) Brutally murder them like all the first born son's of Egypt

E.) Plague them to death like God did to the rest of the Egyptians

F.) Roast them in a lake of fire like God has done to millions of people so far

I really want to follow God's examples from the Bible, so which one would be best? Thanks!

Answer 1

G) Forgive them, for they know not what they do.

Answer 2

Yes, I agree God had very brutal punishments for his people back in the old testament, some where I don't understand why it had to be that way, but God knows what he was doing. Well, F.) was a choice of peoples own, they had a choice to either accept jesus christ as their savoir or not( or in the old testament they had to sacrafice sheep after each sin,) and that shows how serious god is about sin, but thats why in the New testament God sent his son to die on the cross on for our sins so we can be forgiven. So I think your best choice would be forgive them like how Jesus forgave us on the cross.

Answer 3

Wait until you're God, then you can use those types of ominpotent punishments. In the meantime, you shouldn't punish a child for sins he did not know where sins. If you clearly spelled out the rules, and he blaintently disobeyed you, becoming invisible like God and ignoring him will do wonders.

Answer 4

Lets see...

Someone tried A, and she is in prison in Houston, so that's out.

Recently someone started to try B, but then she freaked out and ran back in the house to save them. And now she is in trouble with the law. So that's out.

Marvin Gaye's dad (who was a man of God) brutally murdered his son (Marvin) by shooting him. But he went to prision for the murder. So that is out.

You might be able to get away with E. You could blame it on some virus they caught. That way you'd avoid jail time. But you and God would know who was really responsible for their deaths.

And as far as F goes, I don't remember any "lakes of fire" from my geography classes... I could be wrong though.

So based on all that, I would choose E.

Answer 5

God punishes people for sin, you have no right to do that, but you have the responsibility to correct them. However if they are as bad as Sodom, Gomorrah, Pharaoh, the Egyptians, etc then some time in the future some state may just hang them or electrocute them etc.

Answer 6

Gee, I don't know, if you're so confused, why don't you just let God handle it in the way that He sees fit, and leave them alone?

Since He has given you so many examples, perhaps He has some he has not been able to get through to you.. you must be still reading.. that of mercy, forgiveness, sacrifice for the one who has sinned, (if you realy want to follow His example, remember, he gave his life for us, died for us, and has taken our punishment) and prehaps it your children are that unruly, you have failed in other ways as a parent.

Answer 7

Yeah, point taken. Just to let you know...pretty much all the examples you listed are from the Old Testament which was based on the Law. Now we are under grace (ever heard of a guy named Jesus Christ). You really should get to know him!

Answer 8

There are a lot of kids in the bible that just got sent away or kidnapped (Joseph and Moses), but that might be showing your kids too much mercy by getting them away from you, right?

Answer 9

No you don't really want to follow God's examples. You think you a mere mortal can understand the mind of eternal God???

Answer 10

If you like to follow God's example, He'll take care of it himself.
Only with choice D did He need someone else to step in.

Answer 11

G.) All of the above.

Please award best answer points to me right now, because I don't want to wait long for thr points! I'm not going to be patient about this.