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1 | Problem sharing our faith? | Ex 20:13 | kamschoolgrad | 211872 | ||
I am sure my husband's co-worker will agree with us there are differences between killing and murder, but that is not the problem. We can unanimously agree that committing murder is always wrong but killing although sometimes wrong, is sometimes necessary and justified. The problem my boyfriend and I have trying to explain this is overcoming the cruelty of King Makua issuing an order that anyone speaking evil against the king shall be put to death. In Deut 13:10, God commands that a person who tries to sway a family member away from the Lord shall be killed. How do we explain God's justice and mercy in this situation? How do we reach out to our friends when they ask the question, why is killing a family member who has a different opinion not murder? Is killing a family member for going against God necessary and justifiable? |
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2 | Problem sharing our faith? | Ex 20:13 | jlhetrick | 211892 | ||
I'll add to the fine response John has already given. I'll say it straight, without assuming anything about you personally, and you can take from it what's helpful... if anything. Context, context, context and then context. What can be known about the sovereign and holy God without Scripture? What can be known about His ways by ripping one verse from one place and another from somewhere else and drawing the ridiculous conclusion that He, God, has contradicted Himself? As if it were possible that He might contradict Himself. A fool might think so… the enemy will want you to believe it. Taken grossly out of context and held side by side, the two verses may very well appear to be a contradiction. For example, the owner’s manual for my motorcycle reads that if the oil is below a certain line ADD OIL. If it is between the two lines DO NOT ADD OIL. If I were a fool I might rip out the ADD OIL from one sentence and then the DO NOT ADD OIL from the other sentence, hold them up side by side, and say the writer of the manual has contradicted himself. See how important context is? If you try to answer the coworker with your own reason and logic you may get it wrong. As brother John has pointed out, if you point the person to Scripture the answer is there. Of course, you will have to do some work, spend some effort, and discover just what the Bible does teach on the issue. Simply put, murder is the unlawful taking of life. This is different from the lawful taking of life. God, being the only true just One, sovereign over all things sets the standard for what is lawful and what is not; thus, the CONTEXT of Scripture that clearly illustrates the difference. Hope this is helpful, Jeff |
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