If God asked you to kill/sacrifice your child like he did in the old testament (Abraham) would you ?
If not, why would you not, he would know whats best. And this is not just for christians, any religion can answer this.
2007-07-24 16:55:22 · 19 answers · asked by Coma White 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, I would not murder my own child or any living creature for anyone--even if that someone said He created me (and can he prove it?) Who would send me to hell for love? You can't just say you love someone more, or choose to--love is like belief and it choses you, you can't make any decision on it. So how can someone send you to hell for something you cannot change?
Anyone that has more love for something that they have never met over their own children has problems and needs to check their priorites. This is just wrong.
2007-07-24 17:02:03 · answer #1 · answered by mathaowny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The God of the New Testament will not ask you to do something that is not pure and upright.
No, I wouldn't sacrifice my child. We've heard of plenty of women who have killed their children and then were declared mentally insane. They believed God wanted them to do it.
Would God ask me to do something that would harm another person? I think not!
2007-07-25 00:04:30 · answer #2 · answered by Soul Shaper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given the diminished intellectual capacities, abhorrent behavior, and pathetic physical conditions which are abundantly displayed within the most recent crops of children,...
... maybe it would be a good idea for God to revisit the idea of 'child sacrifice',...
... only THIS time God should take extreme measures to ensure against the possibility of any over-sympathetic angels from interfering...;-)
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2007-07-25 00:12:28 · answer #3 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heh, there's a better example than Abraham.
Judges 11:29-40: Jepthath sacrifices his daughter to God after winning a victory for Israel... and god accepts it. No get out of jail free card for her like there was for Isaac.
So, your question is very apt, seeing as how their god has show that he's quite willing to accept human sacrifice.
2007-07-25 00:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have often pondered this and that is one of my favorite "stories" in the bible. I admire Abraham for his love of God, but his decision was based more on fear. I could never have that much faith as my son is the most precious thing in the world to me. Besides if "God" told me to do that I would seriously question whether this being was really God.
2007-07-24 23:59:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, the God that I love sent his child to die for me on the cross, so that I would never have to make blood sacrifices of any kind. So essentially what you're really asking me if my God wasn't the god that he is then would I sacrifice my child to him....
I don't do "if" questions of that magnitude.
-B
2007-07-25 00:00:29 · answer #6 · answered by The Brian 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If I started hearing the voice of God telling me to kill things, I would check myself into a mental institution because clearly I'm delusional.
2007-07-25 00:03:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abraham was a senile old fool.
When he was 80 years old he had smegma and a terrible irritation so he got a hatchet and invented circumcision. He later took to his children with it - circumcising one and sacrificing the other.
God had nothing to do with it.
Gazpacho - re-chilling.
2007-07-25 00:25:27 · answer #8 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No because we no longer live under the Jewish laws under Abraham. We are Christians in the new Testament and Jesus would never ask that of us.Maybe Satan but never our Lord.
2007-07-24 23:59:39 · answer #9 · answered by ♥ Mel 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
No I woud not. Although I love God and would do just about anything for him, I don't think I could sacrifice my child. Believe it or not, my inability to make this kind of committment is one of the reasons I love God as much as I do. He did make it.
2007-07-24 23:59:13 · answer #10 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋