This question came from the case of Dena Schlosser(the lady that cut off her baby's arms because she claimed God asked her to.) If God asked you to sacrifice your child would you do it? What if God told you, you didnt have to sacrifice your own kid, but give up your most priced possesion(superficial or nonsuperficial) instead? What would that possession be? Remember its to prove your Devotion to God.
Heres the link of the Dena Schlosser case if you havent heard of it yet:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185461,00.html
2006-07-09 11:56:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What God gets out of this?
To see if you are really devoted to him.
To test your faith.
2006-07-09 12:05:43 · update #1
Outside of my children I could care less about anything else. God gave me my home so if he wants it back then I guess I'll just have to step out on faith and believe that he has my best interest at hand. I believe he'll only take something from you because he has something better out here for you. I mean my house is small so if he ask me to give it up then I would believe he had me a great big house waiting for me and if he didn't that's OK too. I'm happy.After all he belongs to him already .
2006-07-09 12:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by Countrygirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish G-d does no longer require blood sacrifice. Christians had to mangle a nutritional regulation to get that theory. Blood became utilized in a unmarried sort of atonement sacrifice - and then on condition that the guy ought to have the funds for an animal. If no longer, flour or oil became the perfect sacrifice. and there is not any blood in both of those. The prophets also make it very sparkling that trustworthy repentance, prayers, and robust works remember a procedures more suitable than sacrifice.
2016-11-06 02:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We live in a new testament generation. The greatest sacrifice has already occurred so we don't have to sacrifice with a blood offering.
If God called me to be a missionary or a ditch digger this would be the ultimate sacrifice. To give of myself to His need. After all, He created me.
Human life being harmed is no longer what God requires of us. Unless we would give our life for someone else's to live (like a living Titanic story and the like)
2006-07-09 12:05:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be my guitar. Music is like everything to me and I would feel very lost without it. But if God impressed upon me that it was getting in the way with my relationship with Him I would give it up in a minute. He has never let me down and I have always gained more by following Him than when I did not follow Him
2006-07-09 12:02:15 · answer #4 · answered by child_of_the_lion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now you see that is why I am a Wiccan, my God and Goddess would never ask such a thing of me. My most prized possession would be my 11 year old son. So the christian God would expect me to sacrfice him? I am sorry, but I could never follow a God who ask that of me. It is simply to cruel a requist from someone who is suppose to be loving and have my best interests at heart.
2006-07-09 12:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by brat_nic2 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a stupid question and that lady was off of her nut.
The only examples of this kind of thing we see in the Bible are with a story like Abraham's and the point there was not for Abraham to kill his son, but to know through the emotional dagger that was God's demand, exactly to what ends God would go in salvation by killing His own son.
There is a passage in the Psalms that says "sacrifice and offering you do not desire, My ears you have opened. In the scroll of the book it is written of me, I delight to do your will O, My God, and your law is within my heart."
And in one of the minor prophets it says, "What does the Lord require of you oh man, but to do justly to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."
This is stupid hyper emotional religiosity and has nothing to do with the reality of righteousness and humility.
2006-07-09 12:04:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh goodness. I had not heard that story before. I don't believe God told her to do that.
God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac, and he was willing, but God provided a replacement and spared his son. It was a test.
If God TRULY told me to, yes. But I don't believe he would and I would hope anyone who killed their child for that reason would be put to death.
As for something other than my child or other family member, it would have to be my home. Not that my HOUSE is anything special, but my HOME as in I would be homeless. That would be tough and the hardest thing to give up with 4 children.
2006-07-09 12:02:00 · answer #7 · answered by My Avatar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess I will have to wait and see when God asks. You should test every thing to see if it really comes from God. I do not believe documented mental illness counts as God calling you. I would hope that if asked I would give up what ever God asked of me.
2006-07-09 12:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does God gain by such a sacrifice? We can't always hope that God will intervene as He did with Moses and Aaron.
2006-07-09 11:59:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would never ever sacrafice my child, however if it comes to giving up another possession, it will be.....COMPUTER AND NET!
I am net addict....if my computer isn't functioning right or my net service is slow....i cannot sleep :(
2006-07-09 12:00:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋