(July 5, 2015 at 6:40 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: ...
(July 5, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: The meaning is the same as the Abraham and Isaac story in Genesis 22:No command from the Lord will ever be for anything other than the best. This is known through Faith first,then it is shown to you. People keep going back to this Abraham, Isaac thing all wrong. It is a testimony of Faith and that is all. Did he kill his son because God ordered? No. Did he kill his son at all? No. It is an example of faith and that is all.
http://biblehub.com/genesis/22.htm
You are supposed to have blind obedience to God's commands, no matter what they are. You are not supposed to be thinking for yourself and doing what you think best; you are supposed to just do as you are told. No matter how capricious, evil, perverted, insane the command may be, you are supposed to obey the command no matter what.
God commanded rape and murder and had the Israelites go through with it, according to the Bible. Do you need me to find Bible verses for you, or do you have some familiarity with the Bible?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
