thou shalt not kill, everything in nature does
2007-03-08 17:18:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Aah hypocrisy. Perhaps it's the intent behind it. If you kill for fun, or enjoy it, out of evil reasons, it's bad. Or maybe. Time to shut up.
2007-03-08 17:31:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the commandments are only for those who have free will, and only humans have it.
BTW: the commandment is 'thou shalt not commit murder'....killing is permissible under certain conditions and it never applied to the killing of animals.
2007-03-08 17:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Animal death is different than human death. Thou shalt not kill applies to humans, not lions
2007-03-08 17:46:40 · answer #3 · answered by LX V 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it has to do with mankinds rejection of god's rulership.
Pre-tree of knowledge violation, the animals were not carnivorous. They, like the man, were given plants as a food source. I know you may disagree, but even now, so-called carnivores are scientifically capable of living from plant food sources. The fact that they have adapted outside of this original design, is not of permannce.
After the man sinned, not only was he outside of god's direct protection, but also the animals, were now not under direct respect of god. How so? well, in genesis, god instucted the man to have in submission all of the animals. After though, not only did man do things to the animals to damage the headship from the man, but they learned to abuse each other as a learned behavior from the man.(when i say the man, i am meaning, mankind).
The Bible does say though, that, when god's kingdom finally is firmly established, the animal kingdom will also be returned to it's original state of eating plantlife as it's sole source of food.
As your question is posed though, the animals, are not murdering each other, they are merely a reflection of the damaged relationship between god and man, as a group of man's subjects, having a damaged relationship with each other and mankind.
2007-03-08 17:23:12 · answer #4 · answered by Tim 47 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the commandment meant 'Thou shalt not murder another Jew'
2007-03-08 17:25:07 · answer #5 · answered by sahara_springs 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont think they are talking about killing to survive.
The Bible is talking about killing in the regards to murder. You shall not kill another man... You shall not go out and murder another person..
Why you would take everything in the Bible so literally? Look at when it was written... Was it written for our modern society?
2007-03-08 17:23:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why don't Christians follow the commandments?
2007-03-08 17:24:29 · answer #7 · answered by Oshihana 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Those commandments are for humans, not for plants, animals and insects.
2007-03-08 17:24:27 · answer #8 · answered by IKB 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because HE has given FREE WILL and HE will JUDGE on this base on day of JUDGMENT.
2007-03-08 17:46:09 · answer #9 · answered by saleem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not a christian, but i think it means murder... not killing for food.
2007-03-08 17:21:29 · answer #10 · answered by funaholic 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋