If you disagree, why.
If you agree, Why.
2006-12-07 05:49:14 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am speaking of killing human beings specifically. We kill animals for food and since we are animals at the top of the food chain we can justify that, but to kill another human being is something else.
2006-12-07 05:57:42 · update #1
Their meaning is the same. To kill or murder in peace time or other then a war is wrong. God forgives those that kill during a war.
2006-12-07 05:51:44 · answer #1 · answered by Texan 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Murder is distinctly different from killing.
Murder is defined as the unlawfull killing of a PERSON.
Murder, is a statutory definition.
Killing is also a statutory definition if you look at the ten commandments as an early penal code. However whoever wrote/chisled it did not have the foresight to create a definitions section.
You are killing when you swallow bactiria, you are killing when you kill an animal or a fish, you are killing when you swat an insect. The text does not say "thou shalt not kill a human".
absent any kind of definitions you can only look at the plain meaning of the words.
Either god or whoever chisled the ten commandments is a shitty drafter or it means what it means on its face. Most societies interperet things as they mean on thier face and go to that first, unless that is unclear or ambiguous as written. "thou shalt not kill" seems pretty clear cut to me. Even if in actuality it does create some foolish problems.
2006-12-07 05:53:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have been told that "murder' is a more exact translation of the original Hebrew.. Murder is defined as the ILLEGAL taking of a life. So, capital punishement, abortion, etc. are not murder, if they are allowed by law.
I am notagreeing with or advocating those things, just answering what the question asked.
2006-12-07 06:00:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means what it says. Killing done intentionally in any way, shape, or form is wrong. If the world is at war, Christians do not participate--they refuse to take up arms against anyone. Jesus said to love our enemies and pray for them, not kill them.
Abortion is the willful taking of anothers life. Life is precious and God loves his creation from the time of conception.
Psalm 127:3--"Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."
Psalm 139:13--"For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb."
Christians must be peaceable towards all at all times.
2006-12-07 06:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by Micah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you ******* kidding me? To take someone's life is taking a piece of everyone that person has reached on a personal level, taking any hope of consolement of that persons soul. To take that person's life will descend his unfinished prescense among
all those condemning their life. For example: our troops need our prayers to help console themselves. A murderer deserves to be killed. A killer is simply a lost heart without his consolement. This is simply a rhetorical question that only common sense can answer and only a moron would ask.
2006-12-07 06:18:05 · answer #5 · answered by J Brewhah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reading I have done and the instruction I have received, says that the best translation of that commandment is "thou shalt not murder"... at the time that was given to the Nation of Israel the custom was that killing a memmber of your own people was murder...killing one of another people was not.
2006-12-07 05:52:59 · answer #6 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I disagree. Murder is a form of killing. Therefore if there is a "law", or a commandment in this case, that you shall not kill, you violate that "law" with the act of murder. There are other forms of killing, "Thou shall not kill" covers the others too.
2006-12-07 05:55:27 · answer #7 · answered by bnkr27 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Uh yea..... What is murder? The KILLING of another being. So of course it means the same thing... And to take it a lil deeper....... When I say being I mean any living creature, whether it's a human or an animal. Murder is murder
2006-12-07 05:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by Manita 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I disagree.
Murder means to *kill* unlawfully with premediation of one person by another.
Ex: If one were to kill or murder someone (he can pick which word he'll use) he will still face judgement by God and/or the judicial system!
2006-12-07 06:01:28 · answer #9 · answered by youngwahm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
disagree!
It means what is says!
Murder is surely killing!
The only killing allowed is "killing with kindness" right from the heart!
Thou shalt not play games with God's word.
2006-12-07 05:53:23 · answer #10 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there is a difference for if one " kills " if one would take this to the extreme definition the moment one pulls any vegetable from the ground or a berry from the bush an apple from the tree, etc. then one is killing a living thing. if one " murders " then one takes the life of another mortal without giving that mortal to defend themselves then this is different from two soldiers or a police officer from protecting themselves against an aggressor or one who is trying to kill them.
2006-12-07 05:54:21 · answer #11 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋