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Today's 'Random Truth' #2...
Understanding the Judeo-Christian tradition that serves as the basis of Western Civilization.....
There is no such commandment as 'thou shalt not kill.'
It refers to 'murder,' not 'kill.'
Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not murder."
'Kill,' of course, means to put to death for any reason.
'Murder' the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Too nuanced?
If the corrupted version, 'kill,' were correct, then war would not be permitted, nor self-defense, nor a legal penalty...the death penalty.
The death penalty is not only permitted...but is required.
2. Exodus 21:12-14
3. Leviticus 24:17 and 21
4. Numbers 35:16-18 and Numbers 35:31
5. Deuteronomy 19:11-13
To abandon the death penalty is to insult the memory of every victim of murder.
Understanding the Judeo-Christian tradition that serves as the basis of Western Civilization.....
There is no such commandment as 'thou shalt not kill.'
It refers to 'murder,' not 'kill.'
Exodus 20:13 "Thou shalt not murder."
'Kill,' of course, means to put to death for any reason.
'Murder' the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
Too nuanced?
If the corrupted version, 'kill,' were correct, then war would not be permitted, nor self-defense, nor a legal penalty...the death penalty.
The death penalty is not only permitted...but is required.
- Genesis 9:6 prescribed the death penalty for murder when it said that if a man “shed the blood” of another man, by man must his blood be shed. In fact, it is the only law repeated in all five of the books of the old testament. The death penalty is a value, values are eternal, as opposed to customs or traditions, such as stoning for adultery.
2. Exodus 21:12-14
3. Leviticus 24:17 and 21
4. Numbers 35:16-18 and Numbers 35:31
5. Deuteronomy 19:11-13
To abandon the death penalty is to insult the memory of every victim of murder.