Can you be certain that God did not order this woman to kill her children?

Question

It's not the first time the Bible God has done it. He's done it and he's ordered his followers to do it as well.
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/children.html
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Dr. Park Dietz said Deanna Laney believed God ordered her to kill her children last Mother’s Day weekend. “She struggled over whether to obey God or to selfishly keep her children,” Dietz testified.

Laney, a 39-year-old stay-at-home mother who homeschooled her children, has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to charges of capital murder and serious injury to a child in the deaths of 8-year-old Joshua and 6-year-old Luke and severe injury to then-14-month-old Aaron.

Dietz said that Laney, who is deeply religious, had a series of delusions on the day of the killings. He said she saw Aaron with a spear, then throwing a rock, then squeezing a frog and believed God was suggesting she should either stab, stone or strangle her children.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4625603/

Answer 1

I can because I know there is no God so I also know He can't order people to do anything and that woman was just suffering from a mental illness not so different than those who hear voices when they have psychotic episodes

Answer 2

whether that's written then it happened. I comprehend what you attempt to get at. and those are hard questions yet hypothetically persist with me..What if God knew that if He spared even those infants they might upward push up and do some thing to the tribe that He replaced into protecting on the time. Why no longer remedy the concern there via having all of them carried out? Why wait till some thing else undesirable happened to break them besides? If a destiny concern replaced into to stand up with those peoples then He might comprehend and can shelter it perfect then.

Answer 3

Could be. God works in mysterious ways, according to the Bible.

You will also note that God does not preside over our justice system. We do. And we say it's a crime to murder your children or anyone else for that matter.

God will forgive these women if He told them to do these acts of violence against their own flesh and blood.

But we won't.

Answer 4

When God ordered Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, that was BEFORE the new covenenant of Jesus' death on the cross. At that time it was a show of Godliness and faith to participate in sacrifice. It is important to know that God was testing Abraham's willingness to obey, but did not actually require the sacrifice. (Read Genesis chapter 22). When Jesus died on the cross for the sins of man, a new covenant was formed that eliminated the need for blood covenant by sacrifice.

So, yes, it is safe to say that God did not instruct this woman to kill her children.

Answer 5

It's interesting to see how many people totally missed your point.

Joan of Arc was called crazy by those who lived in her time. She heard God talking to her.

Now, personally, I think Joan AND Laney were/are crazy. But if we're going to buy that God talks to people, then we have to accept the fact that maybe sometimes the things he says to them are things we won't agree with.

Answer 6

"a 39-year-old stay-at-home mother who homeschooled her children"

Stay-at-home mothers don't go out and clear their minds, they go psychotic from being enclosed for so long. And then they say Conservatism is not a mental illness.

Answer 7

Yeah, I can be sure. What a weak argument and nice job of trivializing both mental illness and murder. Grow up.

Answer 8

wow, i have no input except that i hope they put her in a home for mentally ill people rather than prison