Would you choose God

[osgart]

God would have to prove to be the more just, and compassionate one then my children. The power to create, and destroy doesn't warrant favor. So I agree that Abraham failed a rotten test. This God should have revealed his character, and also the character of Abraham and his child.

The whole premise of the Bible is that all of mankind made themselves enemies of God and that God is the righteous one showing mercy only to the faithful, and believing. Yet where in the Old Testament Bible does God reveal his courage and character, honor and compassion? Vengeance, blood sacrifice laws, slavery, and worse is what this God revealed.

Justice is the quality to favor because justice treats others fairly and with rightful deserve; as best can do.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

This is a non sensical question

Explain why.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

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.

Yet you have a Hindu avatar, which certain Hindu sects still to this day Sacrafice Children to the Goddess Kali.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Yet you have a Hindu avatar, which certain Hindu sects still to this day Sacrafice Children to the Goddess Kali.

You're confusing "certain sects" with a cult.

Hinduism does not sanction child sacrifice. Most Hindus, in fact, adhere to the principle of ahimsa.

 

[PureX]

I think most people these days misunderstand the story of Abraham and the sacrifice of his son. That it was intended to spark shock and awe and profound consternation in the hearts and minds of those who heard it back when and how it was originally intended to be used. There was no "lesson" intended to be drawn from it except that God is absolute, and we are not. That God is almighty and that we are not. That God is inscrutable because God is God, and we are not. And that God's people had to live this with because they were God's people.

The story is not just about Abraham being a good and obedient slave to God's will. The story is mostly about God's absolute and inexplicable majesty. And about mankind's profound inability to comprehend it. Or judge it. As we all today find so easy to do.

 

[JustGeorge]

Yet you have a Hindu avatar, which certain Hindu sects still to this day Sacrafice Children to the Goddess Kali.

As @SalixIncendium has pointed out, this practice would not be widespread, or approved by the general population.

There are people within any religion(or any other 'grouping' of people) that have done poopy things. It isn't a reflection of that entire religion(or group).

 

[ChristineM]

would you choose God over your Children.

Even if the guy did exist there is no way he or anyone else will usurp my children

 

[metis]

would you choose God over your Children.

No, because I know my children (and grandchildren) do exist.

 

[SalixIncendium]

No, because I know my children (and grandchildren) do exist.

What if you knew God existed?

 

[metis]

What if you knew God existed?

Well, I think God does likely exist as my former signature statement said: Whatever caused this universe/multiverse I'll call "God" and pretty much just leave it at that.

With what I went through for 2 & 1/2 years in the form of unwanted and confusing "premonitions" that totally frustrated me, but eventually they made sense through the pattern, so I have no doubt that there is Something. Einstein referred to things like this sarcastically as being "Spooky action at a distance", but he was eventually proven wrong as it can and does happen.

As for myself, I tend to go in the direction of what Einstein called "Spinoza's God".

 

[IndigoChild5559]

would you choose God over your Children.

God demands that we act ethically, which includes the love and care of our children. If we reject our children, we are rejecting God.

 

[Viker]

would you choose God over your Children.

If I had children, no. Never. I only have animal companions. I barely have an idea of what it would be like to have children. I would even choose my critters over God.

 

[Maninthemiddle]

God demands that we act ethically, which includes the love and care of our children. If we reject our children, we are rejecting God.

What was ethical about killing all the firstborn sons of Egypt which was apparently ordered by God.

 

[Secret Chief]

would you choose God over your Children.

I have neither.

 

[RestlessSoul]

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.

Didn't Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter, in order to gain from Zeus a fair wind to cross to Troy?

 

[1213]

would you choose God over your Children.

I think I should do so, because without God, my children would not have a chance to survive.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Didn't Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter, in order to gain from Zeus a fair wind to cross to Troy?

Yeah, but there's a different version where the sacrifice is switched out.

 

[JustGeorge]

I have neither.

How about paper or plastic?

 

[Secret Chief]

How about paper or plastic?

Huh?

 

[JustGeorge]

Huh?

Something they used to ask at grocery stores here... "Do you want paper or plastic?" (Referring to what you wanted your groceries bagged in.)

Now they only offer plastic, though many people bring their own reusable.