good point. seems i read details into it which weren't there. I've always thought of killing people as wrong. even if they ARE bad people. otherwise i would have done a lot of killing
I agree with you that killing is something that we good folk don’t do.
You have to understand that the Ten Commandments were first given to add degree to sin.
After that: then the judgment.
Then: the penalty of death.
Then: payment for the transgression of it.
It can be looked at as four steps:
1. Introduction of the law
2. Weight of the law upon our shoulders
3. Penalty for the transgression
4. Payment required for the transgression and forgiveness.
So, the bible says that if we break one commandment, we are guilty of breaking all the commandments.
So, what is the difference between stealing and killing?
No one comamment is above the other.
No difference because they are both looked at as sin.
Sin than is a transgression of the law.
Who than can keep the whole law? I mean if I break one, I am guilty of breaking them all right?
I give up! I’d say. Who then can be saved? No one: according to the law.
If I steal, I am guilty of killing also. If I dishonor my parents I am guilty of stealing and killing also.
My point is this: That to obey the commandments for salvation one must place one’s faith on the one that fulfilled them all to a “T” for our sake’s and took the penalty of death away from us.
So killing must be in the heart of the evil doer, and not in the heart of the good folk.
For us good folk, killing is not in our hearts to do.
But, there it is, But, a society has a right to institute the death penalty for the sake of eradicating an evil deed which is like a cancer to the body.
To imprison it in the body runs the risk of escaping and doing further damage to the body.
The more evil cancer cells running amuck in the body, the sooner death will come to that body.
Peace>>>AJ:love9: