Would you choose God

[JustGeorge]

You don't specify which one, but no. Absolutely not.

From that point on, I'd see that God as a negative one, and would avoid it at all costs.

 

[SalixIncendium]

I believe it is the better option: God is good but my children love sin.

It saddens me that people actually feel this way.

This is a perfect example of missing the point of religion and worship.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

would you choose God over your Children.

No, I don't think God would ask such things. The stories of Abraham and Isaac and the Book of Job didn't literally happen. The Greeks had pretty much the same story as the Abraham and Isaac one, but theirs had the goddess Artemis replace the human sacrifice with a deer. It's a myth to explain why those people no longer practice human sacrifice. Christians use it as a symbolic foreshadowing of Christ's willing sacrifice, too.

 

[SalixIncendium]

You don't specify which one…

It matters which child?

 

[Jimmy]

This is a non sensical question

 

[JustGeorge]

It matters which child?

Ah, grammatical errors.

I probably shouldn't post upon waking, but I live dangerously.

 

[Quintessence]

Yes, and I already have - by refusing to be a breeder on a planet that is suffering from a sixth mass extinction event that is in part caused by human overpopulation.

 

[PureX]

would you choose God over your Children.

"Over them", how?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Yes, and I already have - by refusing to be a breeder on a planet that is suffering from a sixth mass extinction event that is in part caused by human overpopulation.

Not sure this is what the OP meant.

Are potential children that are not conceived your children? Or even children at all?

 

[Sand Dancer]

would you choose God over your Children.

Any good god would make children a priority over him/her.

 

[Sand Dancer]

my children love sin.

I'm sorry to hear that.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Children own themselves, to call them a "gift" is to call them property

Abraham was a disgusting and severely messed-up human being

If I had kids I would never even contemplate killing them just because a person who is big and powerful told me to, that would be depraved

Abraham failed a test

Child sacrifice was a thing back then.

 

[Quintessence]

Not sure this is what the OP meant.

Are potential children that are not conceived your children? Or even children at all?

Some would say so. It's something of a matter of perspective. Certainly, the expectation that "thou must breed" is still pervasive enough in this country that refusal to participate is still seen as a "radical" act.

 

[Eddi]

Child sacrifice was a thing back then.

I know but it's still messed up and in this day and age people should know better and not uphold Abraham as an upright bloke and a paragon of virtue, because he really wasn't

 

[Twilight Hue]

I believe my experience is that God doesn't play.

The Bible as it is written and accepted by Christians, tells a different story on that line.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

For example ?

You can't think of an example, I'm not going to guide you through this.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

Suppose you have 2 childrens.
Would you choose your one child over your another one ? then what will be your answer ?

That does not at all answer the question, you simply posed another question you somehow think is related.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

I assumed that it was a direct reference to Abraham. Of course, I may be mistaken.

Was not connected but could be a good example

 

[Maninthemiddle]

I believe my experience is that God doesn't play.

Tell that to Abraham, or the Children that died at Waco.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

I don't think that the author of this OP is capable of presenting any specific scenario.

Ok, Waco Texas.
How many children were burnt alive because their parents chose David Karesh their so called Messiah.
Abraham willing to sacrifice his son.
Islamic child Martyes who are sacrafied by their parents in the name of God.
Should I go on or have I sufficiently proved my capability.