RE: Questions for "Our Role(s) as Christians on Atheist Forums"
May 10, 2018 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2018 at 4:41 pm by Drich.)
(May 10, 2018 at 12:54 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(May 10, 2018 at 10:12 am)Drich Wrote: Because taking a human life, and murder are two completely different things.
This is true even on the level of Man. In the form of the state declaring war, or executing a criminal, or in a liberal state allow abortions. lest you think all women who've had abortions are murders...
So then how is God restricted to make the distinction between murder and killing if we can do the very same thing?
Does God ever define what constitutes murder in the bible?
exo 21:
12 “Whoever hits and kills someone must be killed too. 13 But if an accident happens, and a person kills someone without planning it, then God allowed that thing to happen. I will choose some special places where people can run to for safety. So that person can run to one of those places. 14 But whoever plans to kill someone out of anger or hatred must be punished. Take them away from my altar[c] and kill them.
The word is the same for murder and kill the intent is key which is explained above.
Transliteration
harag
https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H2026&t=KJV
(May 9, 2018 at 9:33 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 9, 2018 at 9:19 am)Drich Wrote: Like what? the book of revelation?
God sat one man down and had him describe what he saw/how the world ends. What was written was an ancient understanding of a modern war.
There' some fodder for an intrachristian debate....
Drich vs. Neo-Scholastic: Revelation - Observations or Allegories ?
why can't they be both?
Imagine being placed at the edge of a battle 2 or 3 thousand years into the future, would you have the words to accurately portray all of the things you saw? could you accurately describe the politics or would you relate it to an allegory based on star wars and game of throwns./something you knew??
