(March 4, 2014 at 6:48 am)Esquilax Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 6:38 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: Well my parents would say that those people aren't real Christians, that they're crazy. I once asked my dad what he would do if God told him to kill me, and he said it wouldn't do that, but knows that God would never ask something like that from him. So obviously he's not THAT crazy about it.
Whoa, hold on there, cowboy: what are you using to determine that they're not true christians? I mean, aside from the fact that they're saying the same thing about you, there are passages all over the bible where trusting in god's plan is put above the health and welfare of your family; you're even told to kill them if they try to make you waver in your faith!
Bearing that in mind though, what are you using to determine they're crazy? It's clearly not the bible, since the tenets of your religion says something different. In this case, you're using secular ethics that specifically go against what the bible would encourage you to do, from certain perspectives.
Oh, and why wouldn't god tell your dad to kill you? Do you not know the story of Abraham and Isaac, where god did exactly that? He didn't let it happen, but the point is that he asked, Abraham was prepared to go through with it, so it was clearly in the character of god to do so.
What you're talking about is Old Testament. My parents always talk about how the Old Testament was just for the people of the time, and that God is different now because he doesn't have to follow the law.
