Gone are the days of Abraham when God commanded people to kill their own children to demonstrate their love for him, God was about to give the whole world to Abraham and once he did he couldn't take it back so he wanted to know the depths for his love for him. No God can convince me to kill my own children.
And i don't think that story needed to be taken as literal as it is. Imagine a god who asks you to sacrifice your child to prove your love for him. It probably was a representation of how god sends us challenges along the way and that in the end he's always there to help us 
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Gone are the days of Abraham when God commanded people to kill their own children to demonstrate their love for him, God was about to give the whole world to Abraham and once he did he couldn't take it back so he wanted to know the depths for his love for him. No God can convince me to kill my own children.
If a God commands to kill your child, then simply he is not a god. As simple as that. The first and foremost duty of a parent is to protect his/her innocent child from all the problems and dangers. Although if my child is not innocent and rather a criminal, than I would need God's command to kill him.
First, if there are any voice trying to talk to you then you should find the nearest psychiatrist and get treated as long as possible. Second, stop using illegal drugs. Third, if that really happens to me I'll call a priest and let him do an exorcism.
Such a question could ask only some fanatic. I even will not vote. This is another reason for me to be convinced that all religion is bad. They multiply fanatics, and they can inspire any thoughts. The growth of the terrorist attacks in the name of Allah is a specific example of this.
What kind of question it is? First of all why would God will command us like that? Do you think He will do that? Of course no. Why would you think that God will command that in His own child. If you are anti God, do not be so stupid.
Would you kill your own children if God commanded you to?
A perfectly valid legit question.
Please no attempts to derail the thread with nonsense like "God would never say that" or "God would never change the rules with murder" etc....
Never in life would not kill an own child for the sake of religion and faith in God! I am not sure that such people will be. Mad I ask count for nothing. A perfectly valid legit question.
Please no attempts to derail the thread with nonsense like "God would never say that" or "God would never change the rules with murder" etc....
No I wont, my child is my life. Better I die than my child. If God wants to have my child then he have to ask somebody to do it for Him but it will be over my dead body.
If you hear voices commanding you to kill your own children.. you need help. That aint god talking, but schizophrenia. Get it through your little minds, there is no god, there is no santa claus, grow up.
There is God. According to ten commandments we should not kill people. Maybe God is just testing our faith to him if we will follow him or not. God want us to live a peaceful and happy life that will not happen if we kill someone. So I will not kill people instead I will pray to him.
You sound so certain of him existing.. Can you prove to me he exists? Also, which god exists of them all.. there are plenty of gods out there (more than 4,200), so which one is your god and why do you think he exists and the others dont? What makes your god so special? How do you explain the earth existing 4.2 billion years and not 10000 years as the bible says. How do you explain dinosaurs? Evolution? The earth not being the oldest planet in the universe? Pedophiles in the vatican not being punished by your "god" and still being members of it? Does god like child porn? If he exists I think he really enjoys it.. Also the bible says that the earth was created before the sun, which if your iq is bigger than your shoe size, you can understand that its utterly wrong. How do you explain all these?
I will never do that kind of ....
i dont go to church always well once in 3 months i think..
i dont pray everyday.. but i thank god everytime i go to church and never ask for anything
but with this ? HELL no even witthout him i will live my life with my children they are my life and noone will let me do that even my life is online
actually i can give my life just to make sure they will live their life happy and with out any problems .. thats why we are parents after all
i dont go to church always well once in 3 months i think..
i dont pray everyday.. but i thank god everytime i go to church and never ask for anything
but with this ? HELL no even witthout him i will live my life with my children they are my life and noone will let me do that even my life is online
actually i can give my life just to make sure they will live their life happy and with out any problems .. thats why we are parents after all
If you hear voices commanding you to kill your own children.. you need help. That aint god talking, but schizophrenia. Get it through your little minds, there is no god, there is no santa claus, grow up.
There is God. According to ten commandments we should not kill people. Maybe God is just testing our faith to him if we will follow him or not. God want us to live a peaceful and happy life that will not happen if we kill someone. So I will not kill people instead I will pray to him.
If you hear voices commanding you to kill your own children.. you need help. That aint god talking, but schizophrenia. Get it through your little minds, there is no god, there is no santa claus, grow up.
No! I would rather keep my children alive than to obey someone who doesn't have a solid proof of existence.
Why not do it himself if it is really necessary? Why always pass on man when the situation is going to kill someone?
Why not do it himself if it is really necessary? Why always pass on man when the situation is going to kill someone?
No, I will not kill anyone because I do not have the right to take the life of other people, only for self-defense purposes. And in general, blg can not give such stupid orders because he loves everyone.
How can something that doesn't even exist command you to kill your own child.Anyway i wouldn't kill anybody not only my own blood.
For real? What kind of person could get himself asked that question? A stupid one, for sure 
And what about the 2-3 users, who replied YES to that question? What would you call them? I will not call them as stupid. I would rather call them as dangerous psychopaths, who needs to be put behind bars for the rest of their miserable lives.
If it is the command of god then I will do it, like the story of one of the prophets who almost killed with his father because for the sacrifice, before being killed finally god lowered the goat instead, eventually it was just a test to test the faith of his people.
I have an idea you may be referencing Genesis 22 where God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son of promise, Isaac? If you are implicitly referring to this story, then it's not as straightforward as it seems, namely a deranged old psycho trying to murder his son, if taken form the standpoint of the complete context (whole story) of which this particular chapter forms only a small part, and also taken within the larger religio-cultural context and time frame the story is told, which is ancient to say the least. First off, the boy's mother conceived the child at a miraculous age of 91. Second, a covenant was made wholly by El Shaddai (17:2 I will make a covenant between us..) which is also quite unusual according to the customs of ancient middle east. The nuanced details that color the the background to the developing plot of sacrifice of the boy-of-covenant-promise in chapter 22 is actually heart wrenchingly beautiful once you understand the whole context of the ancient tale, since it underscores quite dramatically what complete trust is all about. The story's main focus is not about (and never was intended to be about) killing of a son, but about whether Abraham completely trusted God. It is reasoned by some religious people that the story implicates the faith that Abraham must have had in God's ability to resurrect Isaac from the dead.
PS: the problem with religious texts is that they are often taken literally as part of divine doctrinal mandate and then all sorts of bad things start to happen when believers apply those mandates as set forth in their holy books. I do not support the text as having any "divine inspiration" to be obeyed to the letter. It is, at best, an intriguing tale of an imaginary powerful deity and his relationship with one of his most faithful followers.
Epic review of The Binding of Isaac! (עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק)
I lol'd @deranged old psycho trying to murder his son, but I would have put more emphasis on how crazy a person has to be to drag their son to the top of a mountain, bind his son to a sacrificial table and take out the knife...
note: In the story god replaces Isaac with a ram, not a goat as a previous reviewer suggested
For real? What kind of person could get himself asked that question? A stupid one, for sure
Would you kill your own children if God commanded you to?
A perfectly valid legit question.
Please no attempts to derail the thread with nonsense like "God would never say that" or "God would never change the rules with murder" etc....
A perfectly valid legit question.
Please no attempts to derail the thread with nonsense like "God would never say that" or "God would never change the rules with murder" etc....
I think I wouldn't be able to do that because my child is my own flesh and blood. But, since you told us not to spoil the thread, I would even consider doing it if it's for everyone's good or if it would change the world into a better place. I would just explain to my child before doing it and tell my child not to bear any grudge against God because God asked for it.
If God command me any thing to me ,I think i should do that because i need to show obey to my god wish.
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