Commandment #5 says to honor your mom and dad. What if your mother and father wanted you to follow a religion other than Christianity? If you obeyed their wishes, you would be damned for not accepting Jesus as your savior. If you disobeyed them, you would be damned for breaking one of the main rules. So, what would be the right thing to do?
2007-12-18 19:06:41 · 12 answers · asked by 雅威的烤面包机 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And you would honor them by going against their wishes and causing them anguish by following a different religion?
2007-12-18 19:11:59 · update #1
Honoring your father and your mother is about respecting them and showing them love above anything else. Obviously parents would like to see their children following in their faith BUT, true Christians also know that their children actually are individuals with their own minds and their own hearts. Accepting a chosen faith is that individual's right...and as torn as a parent might feel, they understand that God allows them to make up their own mind as well.
Many youth these days don't have respect for their parents by doing such things as swearing and/or acting violently towards their parents....those are more along the lines of what the commandment means. I'm glad I was here to help you with this :-)
2007-12-18 19:14:50 · answer #1 · answered by Dana C 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus says"If ye love me keep my Commandments" John 14:15.
Our parents are stewards over us, not Lord's over us. Jesus is Lord. He is our ultimate head. We should respect, honor and obey our parents as unto the Lord. We are not obligated to follow them if they choose a path contrary to the word of God.
God has also commanded that we keep his Sabbath Holy. (4th Commandment). The Sabbath(Saturday) is the seventh day of the week(exodus 20:8-11). Most Christian have failed to honor God's true Sabbath. The Seventh-day Adventist church honors God's true Sabbath.
Keep the Commandments and God will bless you.
2007-12-19 10:42:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a commandment to honor them, but so is the command of Jesus when he said, "if you love your mother or father more than me, you are not worthy of me..."
my mother is catholic and i am non-denominational christian. at first she was upset that i had "forsaken" catholicism, but she says nothing now when she noticed that my life is nothing like the flood of dissipation i was living, which is what is going on in the world. how could this be possible if i did not obey Jesus? and now i am in a position to help her spiritually save her soul. now we are bound by the law to honor them as long as it is not evil. and to disobey God in anyway is the definition of evil.
2007-12-19 03:49:51 · answer #3 · answered by GARY R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honor your parents by not doing anything that brings reproach against them or yourself.
The Bible commands us "we must obey God as ruler rather than men." Acts 5:29 - as long as your parents didn't ask you to do something against God's laws then you wouldn't be doing anything wrong
If you are a Christian then you know that is the right thing to do.
2007-12-19 03:15:38 · answer #4 · answered by blt_4 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
All those Christians who made your comments that honoring and obeying are different matters. The bible says if your son (yea your offspring) doesn't OBEY you then you should call apon your townspeople and together beat the poor fellow up till death.
2007-12-19 03:19:43 · answer #5 · answered by Polaris 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are working from the false premise that you are held to the conditions of a covenant law you were never a party to.
You are required, as a Christian, to love your parents; not just honor them. You are also required to put God first in your life. So you tell your parents you love them, but you are going to follow God and what God has revealed to you.
Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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2007-12-19 09:25:28 · answer #6 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if they wanted you to follow another religion, they would have indoctrinated you into another religion. christianity's teachings would be false and you would not be bound to them. this question would not have any validity in your eyes.
the right thing to do would be to respect your parents, but not take everything they say as absolute truth.
2007-12-19 03:20:19 · answer #7 · answered by eelai000 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The commandment says to honor your parents. It does not say we have to obey them. As adults living independently from our parents, we are no longer obligated to obey them.
2007-12-19 03:11:04 · answer #8 · answered by Northstar 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Honour doesn't necesserily mean obey, it's within reason.
If they wanted you to follow a different religion, you can refuse.
BUT you must still honour them for birthing you, nurturing you, caring for you . etc.
2007-12-19 03:11:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
It also says you must hate them so christians can just pick and choose as usual.
2007-12-19 03:12:17 · answer #10 · answered by Cotton Wool Ninja 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋