subgenius wrote:Themis wrote:What does that mean for people like you who thinks one should kill if they thinks God's tells them to.
what does what mean?If God instructs whatever then you are best to follow...pretty simple.
So, if you thought God told you to kill someone, you would act the same way that Ron and Dan Lafferty did, who insist that God told them to kill their sister-in-law, Brenda Lafferty and her 15 month old daughter, Erica? Ron was executed for that crime, and Dan (whose cell-mate is Mark Hoffman, by the way) is serving out a life sentence for the same crime--still convinced that he was only carrying out the will of God. If that is the way you feel, I fervently hope you don't live anywhere near me!
Of course I realize that you don't believe any more than I do that God really commanded them to commit that crime, but
they were adamantly convinced of it. Would you be any more likely than they to question the real source of a "commandment from God" to kill someone, however strong that prompting seemed to be?
Nothing would cause me to question my own sanity more than a strong "prompting or revelation from God" (or at least question the real source of the prompting) to kill someone in cold blood like (for example) Nephi killed Laban. I would rather God killed
me than obey such a prompting or revelation.
If God really wants someone dead, he had better do the deed himself. I won't do it for him--nor would I believe it was really God's desire,
unless he does it himself!