I just read an interesting statment form an atheiest. I pray for him, but I also wonder this? If you were living in a city and you had a son. Then one day, the city you are living in is struck with some kind of major catastrophy, like what happened in Luoisiana, or like in the Movie, "War of the Worlds", (not sayign I believe in aliens), would you have the courage to give up the life of your son or daughter, just so someone elses kid could live. I mean think about it before anyone wants to get key happy, It is your only child and if your child goes, then your bloodline stops and your heart will be in so much pain, your creation that you were graced with is gone, for a stranger? I have a 2 year old son that I love to the depths of my heart and soul, and I am also a firm and religious believer in GOD, but I honestly dont know if I could answer this question myself, and God please forgive for saying that. I think it is what makes believers believers. Jesus died for me, can my son?
2007-06-12 10:39:28 · 7 answers · asked by monti h 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it is not in the nature of humans to give up their own blood, so when most will actually say they will.. they really won't
but that is not *bad* because choosing for another above your own offspring sets you in a worse position to struggle for your and your offspring's life, because of mixed emotions.
2007-06-12 10:44:44 · answer #1 · answered by m_tassadar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure I understand you correctly. What I think you are saying is that you have difficulty knowing if you could sacrifice your son to save the lives of others. What I think you are saying is that your faith is stronger because you believe that God's sacrifice of his son is to save your life. I will jump off from there.....
In studying Christian theology and scripture for many years, and then leaving that faith behind for very specific reasons, I am not sure you are understand the scripture as it is written.
If you believe in the Holy Trinity (God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit) are the three in one - the three pieces of the Godhead that comprise the whole, with each being its own entity and being the whole of the Trinity, then according to the Bible, this is the question I must ask. Did God sacrifice his son, Jesus, or did Jesus, as part of the Trinity, therefore being both God and Man, choose to be sacrificed? If Jesus is God, then God is Jesus. The sacrificing of a son, then, isn't exactly what happened, is it? God sacrificed himself.
Just asking some questions.....
2007-06-12 18:04:25 · answer #2 · answered by yarn whore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it is your time to die, be you 2 or 200, you will die, what makes you so arrogant as to think you have any control over that? I would not actively kill my child, no sane human being would, but if my child happened to die and the result of that death was that another lived, then I would take comfort in that fact.
2007-06-12 17:47:51 · answer #3 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Omg!!!!!!! those of you who said that we should put god first and let your child die are retarded!!!!! for one thing if god was to make it up to one person it die so others can live why a little kid? why not someone who can understand why their dieing!!?? also its nature for humans to say i wound or wouldn't let my child die but when that time comes we all think what if I let it happen or stop it? and those what if's can kill. think before you go and say that!
2007-06-12 17:55:39 · answer #4 · answered by ashley v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God first, family second, then everything else.
2007-06-12 17:44:12 · answer #5 · answered by Donnie Mills 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm impressed that you can read at all, given your rather tenuous grasp of spelling.
2007-06-12 17:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no comeon i hate hypos....anyone puts their kid first cuz we are human.....THIS IS RELIGION!!!!!!!!!!1
2007-06-12 17:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋