How would you respond to a person killing someone else because God told him to?

[Eilonnwy]

I agree with Godhead the God of the Bible would not do that. I know that He asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac and that Abraham was willing however God stopped Abraham and supplied a ram for the sacrifice.

So it's all okay as long as God goes, "Lol, J/k!" before Abraham kills his kid. Seriously? You conveniently ignore the fact that in the story Abraham believed his God and was ready to do it. It's a rather cruel form of testing loyalty, and if I God existed telling me to kill a loved one, I'd say "Go fuck yourself." It's not honorable or holy to obey the words of a malicious dictator.

God has also asked the Israel armies in ancient times to destroy entire cities and all that inhabit them but all this was of a different time and for specific reasons. Times and circumstances have changed God has moved the world into the christian age.

Oh so, the god you know wouldn't order death, but wait, he did do it, but it was for special reasons. Your special reasons do not negate the fact of what the Bible says happens, which you believe in. Cognitive dissonance much?

Besides, maybe you can rationalize to yourself that it's war, it's totes cool. God knows what he's doing. But what do you think about God ordering his armies to keep the virgin women to rape?

All these people for thousands of years were not worthy of the "Christian age"? God's supposedly the supreme authority on morality, but only the people living after Jesus get to know that killing and raping and slavery is wrong? Really? Pull the other one. If you believe in objective morality from God and believe the stories of the Bible are true representations of God, you should be horrified, not making weak and absurdly stupid justifications that are inheritantly contradictory.

If someone were to do that then they should be tried for murder because that is not what God would ask of a christian, and they should not be allowed to use God as an insanity plea, blaming such a thing as that on God is the same as putting God on trial. Those type of people are what cause others to not trust christains and that is sad because the greater majority of christians are descent people.

Surprise, I actually sort of agree. Despite my problem with certain aspects of Christianity, what's in the Bible, and the terrible justifications to story Christians believe are true, Christians are generally good people. Religious fervor that causes terrible acts exist in all religions, not just Christianity which leads me to believe psychological factors can be at play. Insanity may be a factor, but it may be that insanity manifests itself as religious fervor, not the other way around. More research is needed.