So using the logic you use in post 19, if he believed God commanded him to make a human sacrifice of his daughter and he plunged a knife into her heart that would be okay? After all “God gave hime the child, the state did not.”
That one is actually a tough one for me. I’m not joking. I really do believe that God gave us our children as our responsibility and not the state’s. I will say that torture is another issue for me.
The thing is, it really is a slippery slope that results, eventually, in the state telling parents exactly what they can and cannot do regarding disciplining and otherwise caring for their children.
Jesus did not come that we may have a better life on this planet. He cam that we may come to him and spend eternity with him in a personal relationship. This life is mindbogglingly brief. In the sceme of things, less than a nanosecond.
In the Bible, there is the story of Jalpeth's daughter, which is exactly that sort of case.