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Christians: If God told you to slice the skin off my body while i scream for you to stop, would you do it?

And assume for the sake of the scenario that you know this is truly god asking you just as surely as Abraham knew it was god asking him to sacrifice Isaac.

What about your own child? Or your husband or your wife? Your mother?

Would you do that?

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SW-User

If God wants you dead and wants me to do it. You're dead.

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SW-User

@Pikachu 😂

Pikachu

@SW-User

It's just a hard position for me to wrap my head around, i'm sure you can sympathize.

SW-User

@Pikachu Of course. I understand mate. 👍

PoeticPlay · 51-55, M

Is God god because He said so?
Or is God god because you said so?

Me?

I do not fear any god.

I do not close or avert my eyes when I need their attention. The same as I do everyone.
I look you directly in your eyes. So that you know that my focus is you.

I do not fall on my knees or prostrate myself on the floor in subjection or listen to threats.
I stand and greet and hug and laugh and listen and share and appreciate that we have another moment together.

As family should.

Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

@PoeticPlay My coven does that. Most are recovering Christians.

PoeticPlay · 51-55, M

@Crazywaterspring
Recovering from what?
I ask this in a serious manner.
Because Christianity has a savior.
Saving only them.
From what?
If you need a savior then that means that you are not strong enough within yourself to live.

Hence another question.
Why pray?

God's Will set the whole universe into motion.
According to Christianity.
So your life does not belong to you anyway.

A man can set his will against God's Will.
Making a man able to stop God for as long he is just a man.
So long as he doesn't choose to become a man of God.
Giving that man's free will power enough to stop the Will of God.

So how big is your God?

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

No I wouldn't, because it goes against my belief that god loves his children. Then I would think this isn't the god I knew

But with Abraham and Isaac there is symbolism. That being Abraham to God and Isaac to Jesus, and how God offered his sacrificial son... but then we see Abraham didn't have to do it

Keep in mind that I'm no scriptorian bible scholar

Pikachu

@caPnAhab

Then I would think this isn't the god I knew

Just as Abraham knew, so would you.
So are you saying you would disobey even knowing it was god's will?

caPnAhab · 26-30, M

@Pikachu ...the scenario you gave and what happened with Abraham are two different things.

He wouldn't tell me to slice your skin off. I still wouldn't

Pikachu

@caPnAhab

Not Really. God orders you to do something unthinkable in both cases.

sspec

Well, I can't take away any life which I have not given.
Having said that I know how hollow are my words due to the reason known best to me, yet I won't do such even if it is higher up's command.

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Pikachu

@jshm2

lol woops, someone doesn't know their Bible as well as they think they do....

Carazaa · F

Not if it is anyone in my family, no. But you, sure why not. It is Gods orders 😁

Pikachu

@Carazaa 😜

Carazaa · F

@Pikachu 😜

Lichocolati · 31-35, F

I'm not at that level just yet so no I wouldn't do that 😅🤣😩😭😭😭😭

Pikachu

@Lichocolati

Fair enough lol

SW-User

I'm sure some would

Pikachu

@SW-User

Well we've got one guy in this thread who says he'd get right on it lol.
Now i'm asking him what he reckons is the difference between himself and a person who would, for example, fly a plane into a building...

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

Good luck getting an answer out of them that isn't hypocritical.

Carazaa · F

@LordShadowfire How am I hypocritical?

Carazaa · F

@LordShadowfire
I am sure you understand that after the Bible was concluded, and Jesus said not to add to the Bible in Revelation 22, the last verses; God is no longer speaking to us privately like he spoke to the prophets who wrote the Bible. Why? Because the Bible stories are stories about God sacrificing his Son, not for us to play God. And if we hear his voice saying to kill someone it is Satan who is speaking to us; or we are delusional. And besides, we are to love people, not sacrifice them, like Abraham did. We are not to skin people under any circumstances. We are to love all people. Pikachu knows that I was only teasing.

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