In Genesis 22, God ordered Abraham to kill his own child. If God gave you a personal, direct order to kill your own child, would you obey Him? If not, why not?
And by the way, if you DID receive such an order (from a booming, disembodied voice emanating from the sky), how would you verify that it was really God, and not a trick (I hope that you would be just the least little bit skeptical if you heard such a voice)?
What if your god didn't order you to murder your own son, but ordered you to do something else that you knew was morally wrong? What if God ordered you to kill yourself? Or if he ordered you to r*pe a seven-year-old girl? Is one of these more moral than the other? Or are they BOTH reprehensible?
Think about it. If God could order Abraham to murder his own child, is there any limit to what kinds of immoral acts he could order you to do? [see I Samuel 15:3] Would you say NO to anything he commanded?
If God gives people orders to kill their own children [Gen. 22] and to slaughter thousands of Midianites [Num. 31:1-18], how do you figure out who's the bad guy? Is it God, or Satan? This is easy for non-Christians to answer.
Jephthah's daughter didn't make out quite as well as Abraham's son (see Judges 11:30-39). Seems ol' Jephthah won a battle with the Ammonites, and he vowed to God that he would sacrifice **to** God the first thing he saw when he got home ... which happened to be his only child, his daughter. So, Jephthah killed her. He killed his own daughter because he had promised God that he would kill whatever he first saw upon returning home. Couldn't an "all powerful" God have done something? Like maybe send out a goat or lamb or GASP tell Jephthah that his vow was nullified? I guess not. Morality be dammed -- GOD NEEDS A SACRIFICE. What a monster.
Jephthah ... another BuyBull "hero." Seriously, he's listed as a hero of the faith in Hebrews 11 -- and he slit his own daughter's throat as a sacrifice to your god.