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To: Christian_Capitalist

Would not the prevention of murder qualify?


52 posted on 08/30/2010 5:18:00 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Lurker
Would not the prevention of murder qualify?

Actually, in Biblical Ethics, "preventing murder" is generally left to individual self-defense. If the individual succeeds in preventing a murder (even by killing the presumptive murderer), there's generally no cause for Government Action.

However, in any case -- "Murder" is NOT Biblically defined as "permitting death to naturally occur". That just isn't Murder, according to any verse anywhere in the Bible.

59 posted on 08/30/2010 5:24:25 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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