Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.
Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!
Please ink out those verses. Thank you.Yes or no?
If yes, why does the Bible have verses for murder.
Well the Christian scriptures are comparatively peaceful, when compared to Hebrew and Islamic scriptures. Of course, that is a peace that calls for segregation from unbelievers, for slaves to obey their masters, for the fiery judgment and condemnation of unbelievers to either hell or eternal annihilation, etcetera.
your crusade on theists is hilarious though
Yes or no?
If yes, why does the Bible have verses for murder.
Yes. It balances peace with justice where God shows through examples of justice (His definition not Christians') of true worship and obedience to the true God of Christianity. The purpose of this balance between life (story of creation) and death (taking lives if nonbelievers and crucifixion of the flesh) tells a Christian that even though he feels he is consumed with death/sin, he has hope for life in the resurrection. Without this justice or balance, there is no peace in the Christian faith. So, in that respect, it is a religion of peace.Yes or no?
If yes, why does the Bible have verses for murder.
Not one verse in the Christian scriptures advocates violence even against an enemy. So for Christians there can be no blood spilling.
"Murder" is the unlawful taking of a life. It is unsanctioned as opposed to an act of justice, where life is taken as the penalty for a crime....Only God has the right to take life or to sanction others to take life.
.That would mean people killing others in the Bible is justified if it is sanctioned by God?
There is a example of violence or negativity because it's showing the Christian how God sees and treats people who disagree with His Laws; and, if Christians are to follow His example (rather than pick examples they want to follow), there's got to be a balance between following God and not breaking the law.
Christ knew from the outset that he was to "give his life a ransom in exchange for many".If a Christian is to follow God and see sin as God sees it, then their inclination should be that they want to "get rid of" what God distastes. It's shown in the OT testament when the Israelite killed people for their promise land at God's command to Christ's death in the flesh for the salvation of believers.
What's interesting about the "peace" in Christianity is that it says "thou shall not kill" yet, God doesn't follow this rule given He has justified His actions by His title rather than the sacredness of life itself.
The sacredness of life can not be valued more to a mere human than it is to the one who created it.
I disagree with the Creator's version of authority. That is as if my parent had the right to get an abortion--she had a choice over her own body, her own baby, to either let him live or allow him to die. No person, being, angel, whoever has the right to take a life with which we have. If my parent did not want her child, she shouldn't have mated. If God knew His children would disobey Him, He should have not created them. Both need to be comfortable and accept what they created, their child's choice or right to be in this world, without harm to life made.The Creator alone, as the giver of life, has the authority to take it away.
The balance I see in the Bible, when it comes to peace, is Justice and sacrifice. How the justice is played out--killing, murders, such like that I disagree with. How sacrifice (life) is played out, having someone tortued for the sake of another (similar to teh sacred life example above) is just horrid. I understand the point behind it and the peace Christians have from God's Word. I don't agree with out it is planed out.He was a strong advocate of truth and he tolerated no hypocrisy. There is your balance.
No one deserves to die no matter how wicked they are.When God used Israel as his executional force in the land of Canaan, it is good to keep in mind that the wicked inhabitants were given fair warning about his gift of this land to his own people.
We know good over evil without resorting to death of any kind regardless if it's taking over a line to dying on the crossThe victory God gave Israel was a victory of good over evil.
There is nothing wrong with enemies coming in the name of their own God unless they posed a threat to the people they may have fought against. Why is God a jealous God, I don't know. It doesn't make sense.These enemies had come in the name of their own gods, so every defeat was a defeat for a false deity.