More in line would be - not murder.PaulSacramento wrote:The whole "murder/kill" things tends to be over blown, the hebrew term "ratsach" is used in both contexts and more.
Murder seems to imply a "unjustified killing" so it seems the more correct term to use BUT that is based solely on the fact that according to the Law given AFTER the 10 commandments, killing as punishment was authorized by God ( supposedly).
I am not so convinced to be honest and taking into account Jesus's teachings one wonders if thou shall not kill is not more correct.
You can murder someone within your heart and not kill them
You can murder by slander, character assassination, etc…
One needs to dig a bit on how to apply this commandment – thou shall not kill/murder
What about the slaying of animals for food or for Moses time period and law animals for the sacrifices…
As it stands – even in the Moses’ Law, punishment – death penalty was permitted under strict guidelines of more than two witnesses or three the better needed against the murderer as well as in cases of accidental murder – they perpetrator could escape free to a sanctuary city. Then there were the cases of war too.
So using the commandment to justify pacifism is not correct, nor for denying capital punishment either and the same goes for processing animals for food.
Jesus help clarify this as murdering one within the heart (not actually killing a person) as well as overt acts of betrayal, and overt acts of actual premeditated murder is what is meant by the commandment.
This problem on interpreting this commandment (or all of them) is due primarily how the scholastic Western tradition compartmentalizes data into chunks failing to look at the whole ball of wax as how each part makes the whole – whole. The west dissects the ball of wax and leaves the dissected parts separated from the whole, looks at each part individually to understand the whole, and thus misses what reality of how the whole relates to each other as a whole. The other model (Ancient Middle Eastern) was to look at how a part relates to the entire whole to understand how the whole works in relationship with other parts.
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