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It is an unfortunate truth that there are too many Christians who selectively read the Scriptures. They accept Christ telling us not to respond in kind to insults, but ignore Him when He tells His followers to arm themselves against a criminal attack. They accept "Thou shalt not kill", but ignore passages where God commands his followers to kill evildoers. This failure to take a serious look at the Bible hurts them most when an unbeliever points to these passages as contradictions. Had those Christians spent more time studying these passages, they'd be able to respond in seconds explaining why they're not contradictions at all. (i.e. "Thou shalt not kill" should have been translated in the KJV as "Thou shalt not murder". Extra-judicial killing is banned; not killing in general.)

Sir, I do commend your bible knowledge regarding the issues you mentioned. ABSOLUTELY, the thou shalt not kill is false and nothing more than a satanic lie. You are correct, it is thou shalt not murder. Furthermore, God clearly defines murder also, He leaves nothing to chance with his instructions. We too have vipers in our midst who would prefer to change Gods words to suit their purposes. God will deal with them at the appropriate time. You are also quite correct regarding the favorite passages of the Godless that they use to quote. It is doubly sad that a professed believer should be able to clear these matters us correctly, yet so often only adds to confusion.

Thanks to both of you for a very good set of posts. You know, if we followed the extreme interpretion of "turning the other cheek" and "thou shalt not kill", then Christian Americans should never have served in our armed services. For instance, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, all American Christians should have stayed home in prayer meetings, and let the Japanese military run loose across the Pacific. Just let them have the Hawaiin Islands and anything else they wanted. We wouldn't fight because we were too busy turning other cheeks while millions were being slaughtered/enslaved due to our scriptural interpretations.

This fight, of course, is a civil war between the muslim northern Nigerians and the Christian southern Nigerians, but it is the same old war between darkness and light. Christian Nigerians have every right, even a duty, to stand up for their families and defend countless other Nigerians from muslim rule.

It is easy to take scriptures out of context and fulfill that old saying about the Christian that was "so Heavenly minded that he was of no earthly use.":)