RE: "Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?
April 27, 2015 at 4:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2015 at 4:05 pm by Alex K.)
(April 27, 2015 at 3:55 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Depends on the translation you use.
"Let us open our bibles to Deuteronomy 5, and make sure you have the newly translated 'kill the infidels' edition which we provided at the front desk"
(April 24, 2015 at 11:37 am)Judi Lynn Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 11:03 am)Alex K Wrote: Are you saying we are God? Whatever they mean by "we are made in His image" can't possibly extend to all properties.
I'm saying that if someone were to take the bible literally, then the phrase "God made man in his image", would have to literally mean just that. All that personifies him would have to apply as well. And if he's going to tell Moses on some tablet that "Thou shall not kill", then he definitely needs to lead by example, for man was "created in His image". Make sense? I hope that was clearer.
Yes, but I think we can safely say that that's not the interpretation of "in his image" which most monotheists use, no?
(April 24, 2015 at 4:09 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 8:15 am)Alex K Wrote: Nonsense. Why should the same rules apply to us as to the createur of the universe?
In the Bible, there are many examples of God commanding people to kill. So it isn't just a matter of God killing people Himself; God commands people to kill people. So God isn't keeping his commands consistent.
Again, depending whether the original text says murder or kill, and what their definition of murder was back then. It is very plausible that back when it was written they didn't intend it as, or interpret it as, an abolition of the death penalty, and so killing in the most general sense is surely not what the writers had in mind.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
