A MORAL DILEMMA
You and five friends are on a hike in the mountains. One of your friends has an infant child with them. The child is only about 5 months old. You are busy taking in the sites and beauty when you realize that you are being tracked by a platoon of Al-Quada terrorists. You know for a fact that if they discover you and your party that they will kill each and every one of you without question.
Your friends begin to panic. You remain composed and led them to a cave on the side of the pathway you are trekking. You go deep into the cave in an attempt to avoid the group of terrorists. You know for a fact that the only way that you can remain alive is if everyone remains silent. You instruct everyone to do such.
As you lay in hiding, hoping that the terrorists will not discover you, The five month old infant begins to cry. The mother attempts to silence the infant but is unable to do so. As the infant increases in loudness you realize that this sound will, for a fact, lead the terrorists to your location and certain death.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
This was a dilemma that was asked of me several months ago. The person asking the question was an atheist. It was an attempt by them to trap me in this dilemma. They gave the following stipulations.
1) It is impossible to silence the infant.
2) If you are discovered, your friends and you will be killed.
3) You have only two choices that you can make.
A) You must kill the infant in order to save your friends lives and yours.
B) You do not kill the infant, it continues to cry, you are found and killed.
4) Which choice would you make.
I present this situation to you, just as I was. Remember, you can only make one of the two choices given you and you must decide. So, what would you do? Please give your reasons why you would do such.
Thank you
Even in Heaven morals are morals. So if you spared the baby's life and everyone was killed, (assuming you had already obeyed God's steps to become a Christian) heaven would be your eternal reward. If you had taken the baby's life to save your own you would get to live out the rest of your life here on earth, however long that would be. But when the judgement day came you'll have to explain to God why your life was more than the baby's. No one soul is worth more than any other, nor are 99 souls more valuable than the 1 (Matt 18:12). For the faithful Christian, our reward is not here on earth. Therefore it's better to die to this temporary life to be with God in Heaven than to sin and be cast into you-know-where! :) The morals that God outlines for us to keep here on earth are solid standards, not to be modified per the situation. God doesn't waive our obligation to keep standards because it is a difficult situation, rather it's those trials that refine us! (Zechariah 13:9)
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