Dunno

NO
because from what I have gathered and read he wouldn't do that
It would more likely be the voices in head saying that more than God saying it
or it would be the Devil saying that and then I would have a dead kid and some jail time

cherrysmile

Well, I'm your Huckleberry, sir( As Doc Holiday would say). However, first off , I would say that this is a very difficult question to answer, as a human being , much more,as a christian. The second thing I thought about was, searching the scripture. If you read carefully the bible supports itself on every topic. The great thing about the disciples where I go, is that they are amazing studiers of the word. They are familiar with the original scripture languages, if not speak them fluently, in order to get a more accuarate adaptation of the scripures. So, on that note, everything must be taken into context. Everything written in the Bible must be taken into context. For example Acts 17:11 talks about how the Bereans studied the scripture dailey. So back to the question, now I'm going to speak from my logical mind. God does speak to people. God has spoken to me. It's not in the way that you're thinking as far as interaction between human beings. Gods understanding is much greater than ours.

If God did indeed requests of me the same things that he requested with abbraham and his son, firstly let me say that God cares about us. Secondly, let me say that God is slow to anger and abounding in love, he cares about the way we feel, earnestly. I was at one time haveing these dreams, about spiritual warfare. These dreams about fighting and running from these dark figures. In even one of them, I was completley surrounded by a room full of these dark creature, trying to preach the gospel to them( no, I do not watch scary movies), then I saw this big bright light or man come and take me from their prescence. I would take this to God in Prayer, as in ! peter 5:7, cast all your anxiety up him, because he cares for you. I do believe that if something is troubling to your soul, I would ask God to find another method to accomplish what he is asking of you. God knew that those dreams troubled me, there fore , I earnesly on my own, and with disciples, would go to him in prayer about them, and no more than 2 or three days later, God took them away from me for good. So I believe that in prayer, I would honestly ask God, humbly , if he could find another way to test my faith for him because what he was asking me, in this case , killing my child, was deeply
troubling my conscious. Now God cares about us. He's not just like some force who says " this is what I say you must do , so do it!". I do think that in simpler situaltions in some OT scenarios , this has happened, but the instructions were very simple, like don't keep anything. Or get rid of all the cattle and sheep or something. However, a command like that of Abraham, is more complicated. For example, I was studying in Numbers, and there is a passage that talks about how Moses was burdened with having to lead all the israelites, so he went to God, and poured out his heart saying , I cannot do this alone , why have you put the burden of all these people upon me. God HEARD HIS honest plea and in return , annointed a group of fellow israelites, that could help Moses not be so burdened by the task. So , again, a very common theme comes into play whereever I go, Communication.

Let me tell you about a time, when I was in at Six Flags on a very hot summer day, millions of people ! Our groups had split up. I needed to find a particulier sister who I wanted to spend some time with that day. I sat down, on bench, and prayed to God that He would Put her in my path". So after words I got up, and decided to walk around and decide what ride I wanted to do next,and, low and behold, this particuler sister was walking right ahead of me. I mean this park was so Huge, and finding someone without walking around the entire park at least twice, would be like a needle in a haystack. So, in a nutshell, I would talk to God about it. I would fast and pray and ask , in humility , that he would find another way to test my faith , because taking my child's life, was very troubling to me. It' called , a relationship with God. However these are situtation that are honestly worth studying out in the Bible. I'll let you guys in on what I find out.......... Sorry my answer is so long...........

bobleplask

So.. from what I can understand your answer is "no"?

tommi atkins

[quote=Discovering Christ;20819][quote=Og;20817][quote=Discovering Christ;20815]Perhaps because , in the end , Abraham realised that his hallucinations were about to cause the death of his son. i'm pretty sure the screams of Issac or Ishmael, depending on who the heck was tied on the sacrificing alter that day,had something to do with it.

Quickfire question. Why does yahweh want all those animals to be chopped up and burned in the first place? What does he DO, with them. I know that scripture says he found the smell pleasant, but for a God that loves all living things, and dosnt need to eat itself, whats the deal with the mass animal culling?

November Rain

I don't have kids but I agree with you.

AB517

selfish answer.

Me and mine are more important than we and us. Typical.

Do not worry about killing God, look at why you were asked first.

Astreja

I stand by my answer. I refuse to obey orders that I consider grossly immoral.

And who are this 'we and us', and why exactly should I give them priority over 'me and mine'?

AB517

Lamo,

This we and us is would a group that you belong to and want to be part of. We can change this question to “when would you not sacrifice yourself”, but it was phrased “when would you?” There are many circumstances that occur where you have to say to the group “I can’t do this”.

How about if we change the word “kill” to “sacrifice”.

Forget about a booming voice in the sky, even a chicken sit cowered could listen to that, although if that came to me I would suspect aliens and not comply because God wouldn’t do it that way, it infringes on free will you see.

Would you ever sacrifice something very dear to you in order to save/help others? I am not talking about 100% certain of anything, I am talking about a discussion based on the information you, and maybe others, have at the time.

Geshtinnanna

Why exactly would a God ask a human to kill their own child?

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AB517

lol

He would not.

I think are we just messin around.
Did you step out for a bit G?

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