(December 19, 2013 at 5:36 am)Avodaiah Wrote: If I knew for sure that God was telling me to do something, I would listen to Him. It doesn't matter how nonsensical or wrong it would seem to me.This is the part of her post that I found to be most interesting. It also prevents her from giving that excuse. She seems to recognize that any previous instruction given in The Bible would be immediately overruled by a direct order given by God to her specifically. I of course am not optimistic about her next response, but her sincerity in the above line is certainly unsual. It's uncommon for Christians to be honest about their obligation to preemptively dismiss their own morality under these circumstances before it can be used as an excuse. It seems as though she's being honest about her responsibility that is incurred by accepting the doctrine in Christianity, and that God could potentially tell her to do something that is at odds with her own moral intuition. To do God's will is at minimum, one of the basic requirements required to earn His salvation, and questioning Him puts you at the opposite end of the spectrum. I'm curious about the extent to which she's followed this type of scenario or her requirement to oblige. My guess is that most people probably don't analyze it too much.
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