Posted on 07/14/2013 8:05:45 PM PDT by Redcloak
No
Nope. Not at all.
I’d prefer talk to God about it later rather than sooner.
Nope. Please refer to the Catechism of the Catholic Church 2263-2267.
From the same good people who assembled the Holy Bible itself.
Only an idiot or an evil person with an agenda
for control would believe such a ludicrous thing.
That’s why I went back to the original text; especially the Hebrew. The Hebrew word “ratsach” (ra-tsak) is what was translated into the English language of 1611 as “kill”. My guess is that “kill” meant murder to many Englishmen in 1611; so at the time, that was a valid translation. In 2013, we wouldn’t choose “kill” as the correct English word. We’d choose “murder”.
The fact that Peter carried his sword and attacked with it when Jesus was arrested, tells me that it was always with him, and was for self defense, even though in that particular incident, Jesus didn’t want defending or the sword used.
It is righteous and sanctioned by scripture to beat the
bloody hell out of blogpimps and fags. If they die as a
result they're just reaping the fruit they have themselves sown.
No, it’s not a sin to kill in self defense.
God made my Soul, and for awhile gives me this Earthly body. HE has a time limit on my life, not another mortal.
And bear in mind that the sword was the AK-47 or M4 of its day. It was the standard issue infantry weapon of the time.
The “Arm-Chair Theologians” always throw out the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” If “killing” another human being was a “sin” then God would be full of “sin” by His act of the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah etc etc. The correct interpretation of the commandment is “Thou Shall Not Murder.” Defending life with lethal force is a judgment call that can be justified when warranted.
Except for martyrdom for your faith, my personal opinion is you should kill to defend yourself and your family. Also to stop someone else from killing like yur neighbor. The Jews came to that conclusion after WWII. Never again will they be led like sheep to the slaughter.
To my way of thinking it would be a sin to let harm come to anyone and you had the means to prevent it. It's also meritorious to lay down your life so someone else might live in certain situations.
Now if the police are harming someone, once I would have said you don't interfere. Well, you still don't interfere if you don't want to get shot or seriously manhandled but that was before I saw and learned some things about police brutality, excessive force.
Original Hebrew if I recall was “Thou shalt not murder”. As in maliciously. If it was a sin how many millions of good men would be in hell due to war? Murder on the other hand is a premeditated. This is just my opinion.
Is it sinful to let yourself be killed if you are able to defend yourself?
I would argue that you not only have a right to defend the life that God gave you, but a duty to do so.
No, but it's sinful not to.
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