08 Dec '05 19:14>1 edit
Originally posted by joelekCommandment - Thou Shalt Not Kill
Well, I'm not so sure it's circular. I think the notion of murder does not apply to the judgment on Egypt because God was not being unlawful in so doing. That's not circular reasoning.
However, now that you broach it, God is subject to His own moral standards, many of which are revealed in the Bible. And He certainly does not violate those in His actions. His moral standards include justice.
God KILLED thousands of children.... Justified or not, he killed.... there is no addendum to that Commandment. Therefore, God violated His own law.
God violates his own law within the Commandments themselves.... Commandment Number 2: "You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I The Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate Me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love Me and keep My Commandments."
Right there he says he is a jealous god....jealousy being the desire you have for something someone else has.... and then says here:
Commandment number 10"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not desire your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's."
Oh?? Whats this? You are not allowed to desire that which is not yours??? But that is what God HIMSELF says He is within His own Commandments.
Ok, so God has violated two of His ten commandments.... And 3 contradict his actions..... Shall I bring down the rest?