What gregoree really believes when it comes to murder and killing.
"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."
Message 21737436
He used this to defend Moses at Peor who killed everyone except underage girls who were then traded into sexual slavery. |
