If it was commanded from god?
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God would never command such a sinful act that pleases you so selfishly from His people.\n\nPeace.
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inspiration from praying or belief that it was sent from god
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Just like it says in the Bible. God chose the words that, through the Holy Spirit, men were inspired to write and God meant every single one of them to be there.\n\nIt is how God intended that we should understand everthing that He intends for us to know, nothing more, nothing less. Accept it all for what it is, the Word of God.
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Yes, God is in control of his design and plan. Something in my life has happened or will happen which is beyond my control. This is part of living. Therefore, it is up to me to find the good in everything and for me to look for the joys only God can give. God has a plan and I trust him for he is in control. I will go forward doing all that I can to make my world a better place and to give my family things that I want to bless them with. However, in all things I realize that God is God and I am not. \n\nIt is so cool knowing that my counciousness and your conciousness were created as an individual and distinct entities. We don't fully know or understand the plan but we do have hope for the here and now, and for the there and thereafter.
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God doesn't follow his own teachings.  It is lust, and greed.  His first commandment shows that he would be envious if you worshiped anyone else.  He also killed babies in Egypt breaking his thou shall not kill commandment.  He also broke his commandment of not coveting your neighbors wife when he knocked up Mary.  If God went by his own rules, he'd be in hell!
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You would have to do what you think is best.  What do you think God is telling you to do.
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Thats because the Holy Bible commands it.
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God would not do that. Men created religions and it is the word of men that you quote, NOT GOD.
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God has it under control
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The answer would be SIN!
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God told him to do those things.
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I think that decision can only be made by God Himself.\n\nAnd even then it's done by an individual by individual basis, not a group basis.
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I'd need some pretty substantial proof that this command came from God. If someone came up to me and said, "I'm a prophet, and God wants you to kill your first born," I'd say, "Yeah, right." If I were hearing voices talking to me claiming to be God and asking me to kill my first born, I'd go to a psychiatrist. If I had a dream where God asked me to kill my first born, I'd talk to my friends and family about it, and we'd all laugh eventually. But if someone could prove to me that this was what God wanted, and that it served God's purpose, I would trust God. Still, if someone were going to be proving this to me, it would be something on the order of calling Fire from Heaven or predicting the day of a major earthquake a year in advance or something.
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God would protect me. I would not worry about It as long as God was with me.
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Interesting, but my translation says "God takes his stand in his own congregation".  (New American Standard).  We would need to discuss it with an expert in ancient hebrew to form an informed opinion, so take it easy.
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The problem is, you are assuming in your "if there is a God" case that you know what to do to "serve" Him.  But you don't have any basis to know that.  If you are talking about some generic God, there are infinitely many possibilities for how to "serve" Him (assuming He even needs serving).  On the other hand, if you are postulating a very specific God that you have heard about from other people or a book, then you have created a false dichotomy; there aren't just two possibilities (no God versus the God of the Bible), but rather infinitely many (God of the Bible, God of the Koran, God of a book that no one wrote yet, etc.).  So if you "serve" one of them (whatever that means), you are neglecting to serve others.\n\nSo we are back to figuring out what you believe, and going with that.  I guess if you believe in no God, you could still pick one of the infinitely many possibilities of God to "serve," but that seems awfully arbitrary, and your odds of guessing right seem so infinitesimally small that it seems hardly worth the random guess.
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A God that may give permisson to 'slavery' can approve practically anything else. Nailing and sodomizing included.\nThe question is: Would you follow such a God?