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1 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | kamschoolgrad | 211874 | ||
Murder is not the question. 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 | Murder vs Killing | Ex 20:1 | Rolff | 211885 | ||
kamschoolgrad, There are many sides to God. My father used to kid my mother about the husband that needed to hug, chalk and hug some more before chalking because his wife was so fat. In many ways, that is the way to look at God. In fact, that is how theologians look at God. We take what we call attributes and only look at one part at a time of the total of what God is, because we can't see all of him at one time. If we could understand God, He would not be God. I am not sure anyone can answer your question completely as it is in the heart of God. But the substance, when one peels off all the layers of God: is love. God is love, 1 John 4:8. God's love makes him love, at the fall this is what we lost. We do things and ask, what is in it for me? God not only made us when He did not need to but he gave his son to die for people that didn’t like him, because God is who He is. I might die for another, but I wouldn't give my children for another...that is how much He loved you and us. But there is another side of God after the chalk mark. God is a God of absolute purity that expects us to love Him. He is a jealous God. EXO 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, We can say this is unfair, but God makes the rules and he says that is the way it is. God's holiness demands holy. MAT 5:48 "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. [Some translations use mature, which helps me sleep at night.] When I first read the article you wrote in your question, my first thought was this is immoral person. I am 2200 miles and five hours by air from Maui but I have heard Dawson McAllister and Josh McDowell both mention that people that have hidden sin need to disprove God to prove they are OK. If there is a God then they need to repent, which they have no intention of doing—so they say there is no God or he is a bad God, as the author of the article was trying to prove. You will not win this argument by argument. You will win it by ... love. God loved so much he died...talk about an oxymoron. Your husband needs to 1 Thessalonians 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; Aloha, don dba Rolff |
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