(April 1, 2017 at 12:34 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 31, 2017 at 11:46 pm)masterofpuppets Wrote: If God told you that you absolutely must kill someone who, in your eyes, is 100% innocent, would you do it? Why or why not? Assume that you are also 100% sure that God did indeed tell you this and you did not have a hallucination etc.
This question is not religion-specific in any way and is just a hypothetical situation.
No
What happens to "God works in mysterious ways"?
What happens to "He doesn't have to explain himself to you"?
If God knows what he is doing, why wouldn't you follow his orders?
How about you consider this CL, maybe you have better morality than the god you want to believe in? Maybe there is no God.
Now before before you say "God would never ask you to do something like that", how do you explain the story of Abraham being asked by God to kill his own child? Your response might be, " but he didn't do it"..... In real life, "I didn't mean it" or "it was a loyalty test" would not fly if you heard that being said between real parents. Moral humans would call the police and rat out someone who said that to see if someone else would really do it.
If you say you wont, you lack the loyalty you may claim to have. If you say you would, flat out, that would make you evil. That is the conundrum with calling a God "all powerful" or even worse, "all loving". I do not see any "free will" in that logically.
