Would You Kill Someone if God Told You To?

[Nervium]

Depends, will he pay me dinner at a fancy restaurant afterwards, will he call back?

[Christian Democrats]

The 1798 novel Wieland deals with this issue quite well.

how?

I suggest you read the book.

[Benuty]

how?

I suggest you read the book.

Please, Marquis de Sade could write better work of fiction .

[Kaikohe]

If I was told by Kūkaʻilimoku, or even Kāne, I would not do it. Killing is illegal, and I would not break the law for what a deity has told me to do.

[Pope Joan]

I don't think God ever told anyone to kill anyone.

People heard some powerful presence urging them to kill and thought it was God, but it was either their own psyche or a demon. Maybe both.

So I would great the powerful spiritual message and say "Go to Hell".

Did you know that when Abraham imagines he is hearing God tell him to kill Isaac, the name used for God is "Elohim"? Literally, "gods". But when he is told to spare Isaac's life, the speaker is Yahweh, who tells him "I see you fear the gods (elohim)."

Abraham was raised a pagan and was used to a religion involving many gods. He was falling back into a bad habit, a terrible old way of life.

[Gezi Park]

I don't think I can kill anyone myself but I would approve of him being killed if it's a rapist, mass murderer or child abuser.

[Awacado]

i would give god the finger if he told me to do anything.

[Sunlandic]

If I thought I had the ability I'd certainly try, if only for the sake of it.

This, except killing god would be the right thing to do.

That's absurd.. if you're talking about the Abrahamic God.
By definition YHWH has no beginning and no end. The normal definitions of life and death do not apply here.

[Sunlandic]

I don't think God ever told anyone to kill anyone.

People heard some powerful presence urging them to kill and thought it was God, but it was either their own psyche or a demon. Maybe both.

So I would great the powerful spiritual message and say "Go to Hell".

Did you know that when Abraham imagines he is hearing God tell him to kill Isaac, the name used for God is "Elohim"? Literally, "gods". But when he is told to spare Isaac's life, the speaker is Yahweh, who tells him "I see you fear the gods (elohim)."

Abraham was raised a pagan and was used to a religion involving many gods. He was falling back into a bad habit, a terrible old way of life.

Elohim is the name used for YHWH's God "entity". These are the ten Sephiroth.. namely what spoke to Isaac was likely Shekinah or YHWH's divine presence on earth.

It is said in the Talmud that YHWH isn't actually a God in his true self.. he is something higher than even that, but in order to communicate more effectively with us, he "descended" or made lower copies of himself that are known as the Elohim each embodying one aspect he possesses. Hence YHWH's title of "El Elyon" which literally means God above the stars of El. That means God of Gods roughly translated.

YHWH himself spoke to him and told him to kill Isaac to see if he would do so. Saying essentially 'I see that you fear my presence because you hearkened'.

"And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me." - Genesis 22:12

Your interpretation would imply other gods exist, which is contrary to YHWH's word.

[Sun Wukong]

This, except killing god would be the right thing to do.

That's absurd.. if you're talking about the Abrahamic God.
By definition YHWH has no beginning and no end. The normal definitions of life and death do not apply here.

I have here the Blood of Christ.

As established by Schwarzenegger-Weathers Theorem, if it bleeds we can kill it.

[Sunlandic]

That's absurd.. if you're talking about the Abrahamic God.
By definition YHWH has no beginning and no end. The normal definitions of life and death do not apply here.

I have here the Blood of Christ.

As established by Schwarzenegger-Weathers Theorem, if it bleeds we can kill it.

Blood of Christ? I'll assume you are referring to Yeshua (Greek word: Jesus).

Sorry to burst the bubble of many a day churches.. but Yeshua is and always was a man. A very special man but a man none the less.

YHWH cannot be hurt in the traditional sense, or in any sense at all unless he permits it, and even then it would only go as far as he wishes it.

YHWH can literally destroy himself utterly and come back as powerful as before. He's above reason as he created reason for his creation's sake. Reason has no hold on where He dwells.

Quite literally above logic. There is no way of dealing with such an entity period, they will do what they want, when they want and however they want.

[Sun Wukong]

I have here the Blood of Christ.

As established by Schwarzenegger-Weathers Theorem, if it bleeds we can kill it.

Blood of Christ? I'll assume you are referring to Yeshua (Greek word: Jesus).

Sorry to burst the bubble of many a day churches.. but Yeshua is and always was a man. A very special man but a man none the less.

YHWH cannot be hurt in the traditional sense, or in any sense at all unless he permits it, and even then it would only go as far as he wishes it.

YHWH can literally destroy himself utterly and come back as powerful as before. He's above reason as he created reason for his creation's sake. Reason has no hold on where He dwells.

Quite literally above logic. There is no way of dealing with such an entity period, they will do what they want, when they want and however they want.

It's hard to be wowed by your acumen when you missed such an obvious jest.

[Sunlandic]

Blood of Christ? I'll assume you are referring to Yeshua (Greek word: Jesus).

Sorry to burst the bubble of many a day churches.. but Yeshua is and always was a man. A very special man but a man none the less.

YHWH cannot be hurt in the traditional sense, or in any sense at all unless he permits it, and even then it would only go as far as he wishes it.

YHWH can literally destroy himself utterly and come back as powerful as before. He's above reason as he created reason for his creation's sake. Reason has no hold on where He dwells.

Quite literally above logic. There is no way of dealing with such an entity period, they will do what they want, when they want and however they want.

It's hard to be wowed by your acumen when you missed such an obvious jest.

I sensed as much but decided to take it seriously regardless.

[McCatsonia]

Of course not. Murder is wrong.

[Torisakia]

Depends. If it's a God of Death (aka Shinigami), that means I possess a Death Note, in which anyone's name I write down in the notebook shall die. However, Shinigami are not on the person who possesses the notebook's side.

So technically, yes. But the God in question would have to be a Shinigami.

[Blasveck]

Cthulu demands a blood sacrifice every now and again.

[The North American-European Union]

God wouldn't tell you to kill anyone, so I probable would get psychiatric help.

[Neutraligon]

No. Any god that told me to do so would be a malevolent god, and so not someone I would be willing to obey.

Really?

God asks you to put a bullet in Hitler's head.

If it was before he committed any crime I would still not do it since he had committed no crime. After he had committed crimes I would attempt to ensure he was imprisoned. If that were not possible, I would do so only in self defense, and not because god said to do so.

[SaintB]

If god told me to kill someone I would immediately have myself committed to a mental hospital where I'd inform the doctor that I was having schizophrenic delusions.

[OMGeverynameistaken]

Really?

God asks you to put a bullet in Hitler's head.

If it was before he committed any crime I would still not do it since he had committed no crime. After he had committed crimes I would attempt to ensure he was imprisoned. If that were not possible, I would do so only in self defense, and not because god said to do so.

So if God himself appeared to you, proved his existence in a scientifically verifiable fashion, and then transported you back to 1918, gave you the chance to off Hitler, Mao and Stalin before they got into power, you wouldn't do it? Even with the full knowledge of what would happen otherwise? I mean, sure, you're risking a future involving the Red Trotskyist Empire, but given the alternative that's a risk I would take.

[Conserative Morality]

Depends on the person and the reason.

[Asigna]

I would deny that the person who was speaking was god and accuse him it that the person who is speaking is Lucifer.

Depends on the person and the reason.

This too.

[The Archregimancy]

If it was Sithrak the Blind Gibberer, then absolutely.

Even now, Sithrak oils the spit!

[Neutraligon]

If it was before he committed any crime I would still not do it since he had committed no crime. After he had committed crimes I would attempt to ensure he was imprisoned. If that were not possible, I would do so only in self defense, and not because god said to do so.

So if God himself appeared to you, proved his existence in a scientifically verifiable fashion, and then transported you back to 1918, gave you the chance to off Hitler, Mao and Stalin before they got into power, you wouldn't do it? Even with the full knowledge of what would happen otherwise? I mean, sure, you're risking a future involving the Red Trotskyist Empire, but given the alternative that's a risk I would take.

No I would not, they had not as of yet committed any crimes, thus I would be the criminal by attempting to do so. Innocent until proven guilty, and future crimes are not current crimes. I may try and find other ways to prevent them from coming to power or prevent them from committing such acts, but I would not kill them.

More then that I would wonder why God didn't do it themself. Why does this god need me as an intermediary?

[Dalcaria]

Given that the Bible (God's own word) tells me not to (unless let's say this person poses a threat to my life or the lives of others, though I should definitely consider whether they can be "saved" or not), I'm going to assume that if some being told me to kill someone (innocent lets say), there is a good chance that isn't God. I believe we are supposed to trust in God's word first, not the word's of anyone else, primarily because they could be A) Satan, B) a follower of Satan (like a fallen angel perhaps?) or C) a creation of a mentally unhealthy mind. So that said, if "God" told me to kill someone, or rape them, or anything like that, I'm going to look at the Bible first because chances are that is not God telling me to do those things. And as for the "hypothetical" situation of him doing that, then that may or may not go against what the Bible already says, which kind of nullifies the "hypothetical" because it's no longer based on the same faith I follow, depending on what the Bible says (though I'm pretty sure I'm correct that it does talk against these sorts of things).

Hah! I'm atheist meaning that I would never, ever kill anyone even if god himself actually existed and told me to kill someone himself! Murder is wrong so I don't even know why 'yes' is an answer.

To everything there is a season. I'm sorry, but if it came down to "murdering" one man to save a million, I don't see how you can view that as objectively wrong. Subjectively I suppose, but not objectively. And no offense, but did you read any of my post? Because it seems like you're just trying to hack on me for my point of view and play a moral high ground because of your own beliefs. Again, killing in general is not objectively wrong, from a human perspective at least.