Is believing enough without actually doing? There's something about "Thou shall not kill", but we have spent nearly 1/2 trillion dollars in the last few years killing. Shouldn't unbelieving democrats be the war mongers and republicans be the peace nics?
2007-03-17 05:05:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Good point - the Bible actually does say thou Shalt Not KILL (not thou shall not commit murder or thou shalt not kill except when the government tells you to). It also says "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord" - not vengeance belongs to the state or the governments of the world. Seems like literal interpreters of the Bible are missing something here - one sentence about homosexuality and tons of stuff about love and forgiveness and not killing and not exacting vengeance.
Not sayin what is my opinion, but how do others answer this issue?
2007-03-17 05:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by ash 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Religion?? The bible says absolutely anything you want it to say. How do you justify "An eye for an eye" with "turn the other cheek"?? There is a basic humanity in people that has to be torn out before true evil can enter. If people would find their own goodness and not try to rely on some book, Imam, Preist, Preacher etc. the world would be a much better place.
2007-03-17 05:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Mike M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Religious teachings are a goal that none of us can attain since we are human. Don't confuse killing the enemies of western civilization with murder. The absence of war is not always peace
2007-03-17 05:12:48 · answer #3 · answered by espreses@sbcglobal.net 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it is very easy to say I believe in something but to live by the teachings of a religion that is very hard, as far as people fighting wars even though their god tells them not to that is just the stupidity of human nature
2007-03-17 05:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a basic problem with the idea that faith is more important than works. It gives the people that they are free and clear because they dunked their head in a swimming pool and no longer have to abide by what the founder of their faith tried to tell them.
2007-03-17 05:31:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would THINK that they would be anti-war, anti-death penality, anti-corporate welfare, and FOR helping the poor. It looks like Jesus was the ultimate liberal. If he were around today, he would no doubt be scorned by O'Reilly and called a long haired *** by Ann Coulter and the conservative movement would happily cheer them on.
2007-03-17 05:25:39 · answer #6 · answered by CelticPixie 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here is the best answer to your question. Mankind is inherently corrupted with the stain of sin
Romans Chapter 7:7-25
7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”[a] 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Law Cannot Save from Sin
13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.
21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
2007-03-17 05:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by archangel72901 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thou shalt not commit MURDER.
There is a difference.
God doesn't want war, but helps people win them. He doesn't ask for war, but allows it to happen.
For everything there is a season....
I'm a Christian and do my very best to live by its teachings. There is no hypocrisy in me.
2007-03-17 05:11:20 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You libs do enough killing right here in the U.S.
2007-03-17 05:11:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
because they're hypocrites.
GREAT point by the way.
2007-03-17 05:09:46 · answer #10 · answered by !{¤©¤}! 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋