Lucifer

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Timmy

But if He did?

You don't believe He would, but you can't be sure. He has given orders like that before. He told Abraham to kill his son. He told Deanna Laney to kill her children. Why wouldn't He tell you to kill your neighbors? Maybe He'd have some higher purpose for it that we'd be unable to explain. Maybe He'd test you to see if you would obey Him and (maybe) stop you just in time, like He did Abraham. (Sorry to say, He didn't stop Deanna Laney.)

God has dealt with different people in different ways in different times. Some of us use the term "dispensation" to describe how God deals with mankind in different ways. To a dispensationalist we would now be living in the dispensation of Grace or the Church Age. The way I (in my limited human understanding) understand God, for Him to tell me to kill an individual would go against His Word. We are told in 1 John to "try the spirits." There are many voices beaming our way and we need to be very careful to distinguish when it is God speaking, or when it some other spirit speaking, or when it is the voice of our carnal/sinful/human nature. Anything we hear, whether it be teaching, sermon, prophecy, testimony, suggestion, "word from the Lord," organizational rule/guideline, or whatever must be weighed against the written Word of God. Voices from the Holy Spirit, the human spirit, and the hellish spirit are all clamoring for our attention and we have to be careful. It is my opinion that the person you mentioned who believed God told her to kill her children was mistaken -that she heard that from a spirit but not from the Holy Spirit.