(October 21, 2013 at 9:27 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: So, without further ado.
If god commanded you to kill someone (for all intents and purposes let's assume we both agree that it is in fact god itself/himself/herself who did indeed tell you to do so), is following god's orders and killing them a moral action? Why or why not?
The trick with this, is that God telling you to kill someone decent would make you question the nature of God. The authority that is given to God presupposes some level of benevolence towards man. That our interests are of consequence to said God.
But if in the hypothetical, you know he's the good loving God from the stories with the grand plan and sacrificing his son for us, and whatnot, yeah, you go ahead and kill the person. Eternal salvation is allegedly in the cards for all involved, so there's no real harm if you got the thumbs up from the person who makes the rules.
The question itself, though, hits on one of the big problems of religion and God in general. People are asked to believe a lot of stuff based on a lot of assumptions.
