Go back and read the line that contains this: ...I would have been placing my life and happiness above theirs...
I couldn't disagree with you more. What if her reliance on others cost her baby's life, a life she is duty-bound to protect by values that are too basic to even express without seeming trite? What about the future victims of these two thugs who may have been spared their misery if this woman had acknowledged her duty as a citizen to prevent crime? What about the enormous encouragement value that criminals get knowing that so many of their potential victims have the same kind of childish mentality as this mewling piece of garbage? If all it takes for evil to triumph is good people doing nothing, well, this idiot did nothing.
Jesus states to turn the other cheek. We must always show love not violence. But, Jesus knows that as humans we are weak - in spirit and belief. That is why we will be forgiven over and over and over.
How many times must I forgive my brother? Not just seven times but seventy times seventy.
The prodigal son leaves his family and deserts his father, squandering his inheritance. He returns, willing to work for his father at low wages. But his father forgives him, and welcomes him back. Why? Because, our Father in Heaven loves us and knows we will make mistakes, but when we return with sorry begging for forgiveness, He will take us back into the fold. We must also do this for others.
The foreman hires men during the day. At the end of the day, the men hired at four in the afternoon gets the same pay as the man hired at six. Why? Because, no matter what time of our life we turn to God - even at our deathbed - we get the same reward as the person who always believed in God. The person should not be jealous of this but exalt in happiness that our Father has welcomed another into the fold.
God knows what is in our heart while Satan only knows us because of our actions. Those who say it costs your soul knows nothing of the love of Christ. You can sell your soul to Satan, but Jesus can always get it back for you. He knows whether you are trying to pull a scam or not.
If this woman had the choice of laying down her life to save her child, that is something else. There is no greater love than to lay down your life for a friend. Or in this case, for another loved one. However, she now states that she would let these people kill her and her child, in order to keep her soul pure. I have news for her. Her soul is not pure. It is in fact an act of evil to allow another innocent to come to harm.