Apologetics Forum: Ask questions about Christianity/Debate doctrinesAnyone who works on Sunday must be put to deathOK, so it could be tenuously argued that murdering someone is work of a sort. Work has more than one meaning. My hypothetical killer could easily wait a day, go into the store on Monday and kill all the people he knows were working on Sunday. He knows about the 6th Commandment 'Thou shalt not Kill' but he also knows that that is flagrantly contradicted elsewhere in the Bible, so he can still justify himself as carrying out the Lord's work. God says you mustn't murder, but then He also provides a very great list of exceptions to that rule. Yes, I can list them if you wish. Incidentally, the modern translation inserts the word 'commit' into the 6th Commandment and changes the word 'kill' to 'murder'. This gives us two completely different sentences. ' "You shall not commit murder" is a very specific instruction. ''Thou shalt not kill'', which is closer to what was originally written, simply means it's wrong to kill, period. It doesn't even specify humans or animals. So a country that supports the death penalty is immediately damned. In fact anyone who isn't vegetarian is damned according to a strict interpretation of the original commandment. Perhaps it really meant, thou shalt not kill unless the Lord has instructed you otherwise. Of course he does instruct us otherwise on innumerable occasions. My hypothetical killer would not have a dilemma on his hands for long though. He would count up the number of times it says don't kill against the number of times it says you can kill. He would easily see that murder is more strongly supported than condemned. |
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