This is one of the big commandments Moses claimed that God wrote on a couple of stone tables, after being on a mountain for forty days and nights.
Apparently this is one of those commandments to be taken seriously, as people have a grading system. Lies apparently are not as devastating to God as murder is.
The problem is there seemed to be a few loopholes in this commandment the way humans see it.
It all depends on how one views it doesn’t it?
When I was a child, the commandment said, thou shalt not kill. Now it says thou shalt not murder. Convenient how God’s word can change, isn’t it? Do you think God has trouble making up his or her or its mind?
There are some other aspects to this commandment that are confusing. Not kill or murder who or what?
There seems to be no qualifier. There was stuff written afterward by people who tried to interpret this, for they cannot understand the simplicity of literal translation, they have to make a legal game of it. That insures the service industry of pastoral and priestly servitude keeps on raking in the dough for interpretation purposes.
What if it means what it says?
Thou shalt not kill. That’s it. Not kill. Anything or anybody.
There will be a lot people in trouble with God on this world if this is true, wouldn’t there?
I know I am guilty.
All those people, Christians, Muslims, Jews and other faiths who claim that this story of Moses is the back bone of their faith have trouble with this and encourage the continued justification of kill or murder.
Pulling the trigger, or financing the weaponry for someone else to use, is no different.
Kind of makes believers who pay taxes to wage unjustified war hypocrites, doesn’t it?
if those commandments are true.
Killing is all part of the natural cycle of life.
So therefore god would choose the people he damns.
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But i do think that there is a difference between killing and murder.
Killing for religous beliefs i disagree with.
Ethnic cleansing is a product of such injustice.
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But a woman in fear of an attacker, killing.
Give her a medal.
Hi Kokot;
If someone who attacks another and dies because the victim or another is defending him or herself, I have no problem with.
Moses killed too, but many are unaware of this.
Death is a natural part of our existence. We all die, from many different causes.
At the hand of another human being should not be one of the causes, unless we initiate it.