How is it a loving act to set up your own child to die a gruesome, painful death?

Question

How is it loving to need a blood sacrifice?

Tanya, do you know anything about your own faith?

Eddie: I'm psycho because I think it's wrong to make your kid die for something you, yourself did? Ok...

Answer 1

Yeah. Christianity is a beeyotch sometimes. I admit.

Answer 2

There is a long history of blood sacrifice in the Judeo-Christian religions. If you are really interested, read Hebrews Chapter 10 for a very good synopsis.

In short - it has to do with the concepts of atonement and repentance - paying for our sins and turning away from our sins. In its simplest human term - every child is punished for doing wrong, but very few parents will accept "I'm sorry I did that, it will never happen again" as genuine sorrow - they will insist on something else (lose allowance, sent to room, no TV, etc.) to help the child remember to do better next time.

The blood sacrifice to cover all the wrong-doing of all mankind - past, present and future - had to be very powerful indeed. Obviously only one man could do that - GOD Himself.

Answer 3

God does no longer reason little ones to die. we stay in a fallen international. undesirable issues now and again take position to good human beings. notwithstanding it isn't God that motives human beings to die of maximum cancers. A attempt can come for this reason from it regardless of the reality that. all of us get better in each and every thing we do. a minimum of the wise ones and not the rebellious those who do issues their way and not learn. existence is a attempt. Will you pass or will you fail? Christians, are you able to shop the religion no matter in case your newborn dies of maximum cancers? the international's ideas breads too many weak human beings.

Answer 4

Loving? Public humiliation, torture then a slow day on the cross before the three-day hypothermic coma? Ick.

I'd never do that to my kid. I know there are some crazy foster parents out there (Texas Child Services only selects fundies of course) but mostly they confine their Christian love to cigarette burns, beating with belts and locking in closets for days without food.

But to set up that horrid fake death really goes beyond decency.

I sometimes think the translators got it wrong- for god so loathed the world he killed his only rotten son, and if you want to be rotten be god like.

Answer 5

OK.

Let us say that everyone on earth is going to die from a terrible disease. Your son is immune to that disease because of an antigen in his blood. In order to create the vaccine that will save the rest of the species, your son must die, and his blood be taken to create the vaccine.

It is a loving act, a tragic act, but a loving act, to sacrifice your own son for the love you have for the children of the world.

Answer 6

Life is in the blood, & it took a perfect sacrifice without sin to shed his perfect blood as an attonement for our sins. Our own blood is not perfect & free from sin. Therefore In Jesus Christ there is eternal life.

Answer 7

Upon first glance it would be easy to conclude that such a command was unjust and gravely wrong. However parts of the Bible which are difficult to understand, such as this passage, must be considered in context.

It is abunduntly clear from passagers previous to this that God did not condone or approve of humans committing murder. For example, Cain was punished for killing his brother Abel. Later on in the Bible God severley punished nations who participated in child scarfice to other Gods, as part of their religion. It must also be emphaised that God had planned Issac to be part of the ancestral seed that led to his son being born, so it was not in Gods plan for Issac to be dead.

This was a great test of Abraham's faith, and there could be no greater test. Abraham knew that if God had the ability to resurrect Issac if he were to be scarficed (which is recorded in the Bible) and as he was such an important part of the descendant line it is clear that even IF he was scarficed this would have only been a temporary death.

But Abraham was stopped before killing his son, the Bible tells us that God can read minds and hearts so he permitted things to continue until it was clear that Abraham was going to demonstrate his obedience and the test was passed. Although it may seem like it was a last minute decision, God has the power to stop any event from occuring at any time, and with his powers of wisdom greater than ours, we can be assured he knew at what moment it was right for Abraham to be stopped. After this there was no need for any repeat tests.

It may be reasonsed that if God could read minds and hearts why did he put Abraham though such a traumatic experience of nearly killing his son. But God created all humans with the power of free-will, and he hoped they would CHOOSE to serve him rather than be forced. So Abraham had opportunity to flee the test of faith or choose to be disobedient, it was only by observing his obedience could God know that he was a man of complete faith and had complete obedience to him.

As has been mentioned this can be likened to God's love at letting his son die for millions of people, the majority of whom would not acknowledge him signifigantly in their lifes. If you let your child die to save a greater number of persons in a modern day scenario and you received little credit or respect, how would you feel after giving up the most precious part of your life? It is worth pondering on this before jumping to the conclusion that God is unloving because of the incident we are discusssing.

This passage betwen Abraham and Issac can not be contrasted to events between humans, as humans do not have God's power to resurrect or the ability to read hearts and minds and their intentions are often selfish or unjust. Quoting examples in this discussion such as Hitler or the twin towers incident are not at all comparable - Hitler was a man hell bent on power, and the twin towers was a terroist act.

It is always recommended if you are really interested in certain parts of the Bible and are perplexed by them to read the chapters surrounding the passage, consider the setting of the event and look at how it is cross-referenced. Events in the Bible took place a long long time ago, and in our modern day some of them don't make sense, just as if a person coming back from that time peroid came here - you wouldn't expect them to understand the way things are. So if you look below the surface of topics like this, considering the characters lives and the environment they were in, you are bound to be enlightened.

Answer 8

I don't know which religion you are talking about, but the general assumption would something like this.

The child is raised in the society with his parents. He is brought up to know the same God(s) they do, to worship them and understand what it is they desire. For them, it would be an honor to die for their Gods, and it would be unloving of their parents to refuse this honor. It would be cursing the family, turning their back on the Gods if they refused to sacrifice the child after he had been chosen.

Answer 9

If you are referring to Jesus, I would have to tell you that the PEOPLE of this world are the ones that required blood sacrifices and HUGE signs to believe in God.

People STILL want big signs.

Answer 10

Its not.

Christians very often use the analogy that god is a loving parent that just wants us to obey him.Calling him Father is like adopting Hitler as your dad.I have a young son and would do anything before seeing a hair on his head hurt,let alone condemn him to a lake of burning sulphur for eternity.

Answer 11

The bigger question is why did God need to sacrifice himself in the human flesh in the first place? And on top of that, it was supposedly so that he could allow himself to forgive everyone for committing all the sins that he made up for everybody.