RE: "Thou shall not kill" commandment is hypocritical?
May 6, 2015 at 4:42 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2015 at 4:43 am by pocaracas.)
(May 5, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(April 24, 2015 at 7:56 am)pocaracas Wrote: So we have Moses, bringing "his people" from Egypt to Mt. Sinai where Jehova gives him the ten commandments...
And one of them is simply "you shall not murder", but... but... what did god do with all the plagues he sent down on Egypt, particularly the one with all the firstborns, if not murdering?
What sort of moral authority does such a being have to tell his "children" not to murder when that's exactly what he did a couple of pages back?!
"Thou shall not kill" is one of the laws; it's not one of the Ten Commandments. It was never written on the stone tablets.
Well, that it was never written on stone tablets may be actually true.
But it is one of the ten commandments from the bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill:
Quote:Thou shalt not kill (LXX; οὐ φονεύσεις), You shall not murder (Hebrew לֹא תִּרְצָח lo tirṣaḥ) or You shall not kill (KJV), is a moral imperative included as one of the Ten Commandments in the Torah,[1] specifically Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17.
The imperative is against unlawful killing resulting in bloodguilt.[2] The Hebrew Bible contains numerous prohibitions against unlawful killing, but also allows for justified killing in the context of warfare, capital punishment, and self-defense.
Maybe you're using the wrong version of the tale...?
Here, try this site, it has several versions of the same tale: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...xodus%2020
