Would you sacrifice yourself if your deity asked you to?

[Mindmaster]

All I can say is that my God would never intentionally and unnecessarily contribute to the suffering of an individual.

Maybe, they are teaching you a lesson like the story of Issac.

 

[Mycroft]

I'd tell him to do one. And then call him to account for his crimes against humanity.

 

[ThirtyThree]

In the spirit, of @Taylor Seraphim's post -- I have been left with a more important question. Would you take yourself out of your deity asked you to?

I mean, technically this would be the ultimate self-sacrifice. Wouldn't you think?

If my deity appeared to me in such a way which was undeniable, yes. Otherwise, no. I would question if I was experiencing a delusion or psychological break of some type.

 

[buddhist]

If a deity asked me to sacrifice myself, I would ask say:

1. If you are the "supreme" deity, then you should be able to do it yourself, or compel me to do it;
2. If you need my permission, then you are not the "supreme" deity.

So, either way, no.

 

[RRex]

Would you sacrifice yourself if your deity asked you to?

No. There is no way to be sure that the entity asking such a thing of me is who he says he is.

 

[Mindmaster]

If a deity asked me to sacrifice myself, I would ask say:

1. If you are the "supreme" deity, then you should be able to do it yourself, or compel me to do it;
2. If you need my permission, then you are not the "supreme" deity.

So, either way, no.

He's just testing your faith!

 

[buddhist]

He's just testing your faith!

Then I would ask,

1. If you need to test my faith for your sake, then you're not supreme and all-knowing, and not worthy for me to sacrifice myself to you.
2. If you are testing my faith for my sake, then there are two possibilities:

• I pass your test of faith, then how would it be for my sake, considering I'd be dead?
• If I don't pass your test of faith, then how would it be for my sake, because I'm a failure?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

In the spirit, of @Taylor Seraphim's post -- I have been left with a more important question. Would you take yourself out of your deity asked you to?

I mean, technically this would be the ultimate self-sacrifice. Wouldn't you think?

By "sacrifice", do you mean "obliterate your existence" or "swap this earthly life for an even better afterlife?

 

[Mindmaster]

By "sacrifice", do you mean "obliterate your existence" or "swap this earthly life for an even better afterlife?

I guess that is a matter of opinion not really answered here, but I guess if the latter is true it is valid as well. I could see both being viable or desirable in certain circumstances.

 

[Jonathan Ainsley Bain]

The difference between you and I is that I do not think something is true just because I was told it was.

You are telling lies.
What makes you think you know what I have or have not been told?
How can you possibly decide that when you do not know me at all??

I was told atheism was truth.
I DID NOT believe what I was told!

I searched and studied physics, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, cosmology
and still i did not know.

Then I sang a prayer so wild and ecstatic,
it echoed through the spirits of all the realms.
I could feel the ether trembling with this mighty poem,
this orchestra of feeling so deep I could feel the angels resonate my calling.

Tears and laughter mingling in every corner of my being,
I danced and cried and even the entire ocean could not cool my passion,
nor the thighs of women, the most potent drugs were mild scents in my flaring nostrils,
I cast them all aside for the illusions that they are, and gorged myself on raw emotion,
the evil fled before the ecstasy of my suffering and my sheer rapture.
I would not be quenched, I would feel all the pain of all the world before
I turned off this volcanic tragic boiling bubbling tumultuous truth within me.

Then John the Baptist answered me,
with pure and gentle reason,
and Jesus followed him,
and their spirits stood on each side of me,
slightly touching my fingertips,
I could have so easily brushed them aside,
and conquered all the world,
but quietly my questions did subside,
and grace sanctified my soul.

And now I know they are empirically real.
Selah!