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Don't give them any ideas, the bible has been rewritten to suit someones convenience too many times to count.

We don't need the next revision to be specifically dictating genocide for atheists.

You're kidding but not very good at it. Anyway what does it mean to say 'every x is a fake x' if there is no x to begin with ? People don't say, Where can I find a real unicorn, do they. This is the old thinking problem -- which seems to be increasing with education, oddly enough -- the harder a thing is to ascertain, the less I care about it. (Even if it deals with what is most important.) As you know, I must let you go your way with this. You're looking for an argument so you can make your next posting "Why are believers in a true God such jerks !!"

If the bible commanded me to kill someone in the name of God, I doubt I would accept the message as the truth and, as such, I wouldn't be a "Christian"...so, moot point.

The story of Abraham is not analogous to your question. The reason is that God asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son...a son that God had given him through a miracle of conception (what would you call a 90+ year old woman giving birth following a promise she would do so)...a son that God had promised Abraham would grow up to become the father of a new nation of his chosen people.

The story of Abraham and Issac is a test...God made various promises to Abraham that, so far, he had kept despite Abraham's interference (e.g., Ishmael)...he had allowed Abraham's wife to become pregnant and bear him a son in his old age. Now, God wanted to test whether Abraham would once again think he had a better solution than God or whether this time, Abraham would trust God's promises to him (the promise to make Issac the father of great nation). You will note that God prevented Abraham from killing his son once he proved his willingness to trust God!

If the bible commanded me to prove my loyalty to God by killing a person I didn't know simply because he or she denied the existence of God, I would interpret this a conclusive evidence that it was a LIE! An all-knowing God would NEVER give human beings, with their flawed and limited minds, the right to make this kind of determination about another human being! Instead, he would do exactly as he did through the message of Jesus and that was tell us to leave such decisions in his capable hands.

Edit...I do have to chuckle at the people with military training who are essentially saying, "bring it on"...are you forgetting that the NRA is largely comprised of right-wing Christians...as good as you may be at hand-to-hand or other forms of combat, do you really think you could stop a bullet you didn't even know was coming? ...and if you did know it was coming, do you think your numbers are large enough to stand against all those gun-toting Christians in a full-scale war even if ALL of you had those kinds of skills?

Well, I would suspect if whatever drunken goatherder put it in a book that this should be done--the abrahamic religions would never have come to be. That large a threat to humanity would have required the civilized world to hunt them down to extinction.

God no longer needs any sacrifice since Jesus made the ultimate perfect sacrifice.

I would hope that He wouldn't command that... we would have ran out of Atheists to sacrifice a long time ago... Then how would I appease Him?

Probable. But why not sacrifice god before an atheist?

Yes, but I don't see the Bible saying this.

IMO- we are called to love people & act lovingly towards people, even if they have a different belief system than our own.

<=== Agnostic Pantheist 8 Years USMC 0300 Infantry.

And I was VERY good at what I did as a Hand to Hand instructor, better bring some support

Haha, they could try.

<---- Atheist, US Army Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom