Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: Salvation
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"

Your neighbor being your fellow citizens, countrymen, etc. Anyone you're not at war with. Does "Thou shalt not kill" mean you can't be a soldier in war? No, it means you can't kill your neighbor, fellow citizen, etc.
67 posted on 08/18/2018 2:51:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Telepathic Intruder

The words often translated, “Thou shalt not kill,” are generally understood to mean, in the original Hebrew, “Do not commit murder,” and the distinctions between “killing” in general - including killing animals - homicide, and murder are broken out in the laws of every culture.

Bearing false witness “against” your neighbor implies an intent to do harm to the neighbor. Telling your neighbor a “fish story” is not going to harm him. We do have to watch in distinguishing between a “neighbor” and an “enemy,” because Jesus overturned the common understanding of those categories. However, if you consider that the Nazi officer is your “neighbor,” you are doing him good, not harm, by not giving him information that might lead to his harming an innocent person.

We often view “doing good” for a person as “letting him (or helping him) do what he wants,” but that is a very simplistic viewpoint. Your child wants to eat dog poop. Do you let him?


74 posted on 08/18/2018 3:11:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies ]

To: Telepathic Intruder

David to Goliath: INCOMING!!


203 posted on 08/19/2018 3:34:35 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson