The man before you is a father who made a big garden for his children to play in. He told every body who would listen he loved his children dearly and all he expected in return was absolute obedience and praise from them every day.
But he suspected some of his children did not really love him. So, to test them he hid desease germs, and evil paracites, and deadly poisons and terrible traps in he garden, gave the children ten instructions on how to behave and left them to it.
During the following days many of the children started getting very sick from the germs, some died from the parasites which ate their liver and some got mutilated by the traps. The police arrested the man and brought him before the court.
You are the jury. Does he deserve condemnation and punishment or your praise and thanks?
2006-12-13 11:05:22 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can I send you to jail in stead?
2006-12-13 11:08:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Was there any other place for the kids to go?
Did these ten instructions protect the children?
Were these children able to interact with him directly?
Could this 'man' do anything special for the children while they were alive?
What is the relationship between these children and the people in the jury?
If there's no other place for the children to go, if the ten instructions didn't keep the children from being damaged, if the children could not interact with him directly but had to rely on a set of fables and facts mixed together in an old book,
then this guy deserves none of what you propose, but some sort of psychiatrical counseling and healing.
But can you prove that the diseases and traps were put in place by Him, oops, sorry!, 'him'?
2006-12-14 01:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by raxivar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If that is supposed to be an analogy, read the real story again, then you will see it doesn't fit. All good things come from Him, the evil came in with the Fall and the death it brought. He put only one thing that allowed them to choose their own way rather than His so that they would have a choice. The negative cansequences weren't His choice but theirs.
2006-12-14 02:28:22 · answer #3 · answered by Bre 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Undoubtedly he deserves punishment.
If that father happens to be someone who makes some laws, a set of do's and don'ts and enjoins his children to play according to law, infringement of which will entail certain consequences on them and the children suffer as a result of the application of the law, you ought not to blame the father.
2006-12-20 05:12:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great story! He does not deserve condemnation at all, not by his faithful children. He gave them a list of things to live by(commandments)and said, "follow me".
I praise Him and thank Him every day for what he has taught me.
2006-12-13 19:12:01 · answer #5 · answered by Emma J 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Franco, the story of the Garden of Eden (as most stories in the Bible) was not meant to be taken literally. It didn't happen that way, so your story sounds rather silly to me, trying to tie it to God. I know many believe the Bible literally and say that all the bad things that happen to us is "God testing us". NOT SO. God doesn't suspect that his children don't love him .... many don't even know him so how could they love him?
The bottom line in spirituality, as in life, is to take responsibility for your actions, know that you are the creator of your own universe and the path you take in life, and stop blaming others (including God).
As for your scenario, the man should get the death penalty for killing his children.
2006-12-13 20:52:47 · answer #6 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
father loves his children unconditionally but he too has every right to correct his children only the ways and methods are different for us to get on the right path
2006-12-19 06:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by lovely 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a pathetic attempt to accuse God. I the jury would say "where is your proof?" Your story seems to be based in made up "facts" -- Try again, read the real story, question the real God. Bring evidence of your accusations.
2006-12-13 19:13:07 · answer #8 · answered by BaseballGrrl 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I could not be bothered reading all that so I will say he is innocent if it gets me a free hotel room for the night.
2006-12-13 21:19:16 · answer #9 · answered by D.F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make him read Bible,he like it or not.Children love him or not has nothing to do with his love for children.As a parent he should love his all children,not make them sick.
2006-12-19 22:14:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
keeping in view your analogy....
who are the police.....
who are the complainants....
and who are the jury....
i will conclude by saying....they were warned not to do things which they did and they were his children YES but they had the knowledge and wisdom and a FREE WILL to either do it or do not do it....
they did it in the end out of their own free will..
right...??????
which jury will now condemn him to death...????
2006-12-14 00:07:26 · answer #11 · answered by pathik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋