Do you think God needs your permission to take your life?
That really is funny.
You are going to die one way or another; and when you stand before God to give an account for your life, I suspect that cutting and pasting quotes from a Ayn Rand, who is already in torment awaiting the final judgement, is not going to get you too far. I already answered your question several times you just don't like the answer. You accused God of murder and suppose that He is bound by some sort of Law that is above Him. If the Law was above God He would not be God. Everything God does is in accordance with His prefect character. When we are judged it will be done with complete justice, but you won't like that either. You don't need justice, you need Grace and Mercy. I hope you get it.
""Thou shalt not kill" is actually a misquote. The commandment isn't against killing; it's against murder. Just as in English, the Hebrew language has two different words; and the word murder is what is described in the commandment, not killing. It should be fairly evident to people that God is not proscribing all killing because part of the very Mosaic law that God gave capitol punishment as an appropriate punishment for quite a number of crimes. You can't say, I forbid you to kill, and by the way, kill. That would be an obvious contradiction, and that is obviously not what God has in mind. No, the prohibition is against murder, which is an inappropriate kind of killing. And then God talks about certain circumstances when killing is legitimate and other circumstances when it is not legitimate. Taking a human life without proper justification is murder and is wrong. But if the circumstance changes and there is appropriate justification, then arguably this is a morally relevant factor that changes the moral nature of the act of taking a life. Therefore, you would be justified in taking his life in self-defense. When the circumstance changes in a morally relevant way, the application of the moral rule changes."
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