You shall not murder.
Exodus 20:13
By the time the average American child hits 10
witnessed
8,000
murders on television
By the time the average American child hits 10
watched
100,000
acts of violence
every
22
mins,
somebody is
stabbed, shot, or
beaten to death.
Globally more
young children die
from violence than
they do from illness
or sickness.
WHAT THIS VERSE DOES NOT MEAN
1) It does not prohibit the killing of animals.
2) It is not prohibiting capital punishment.
3) It is not prohibiting going to war.
“Because the sentence against an evil work is
not executed speedily, therefore the heart of
the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” Ecclesiastes 8:11
So what does God mean
when He said ,
You shall not murder?
“You have heard that it was said to those of
old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever
murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
22 But I say to you that whoever is angry
with his brother without a cause shall be in
danger of the judgment. And whoever says
to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of
the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’
shall be in danger of hell fire.” Matthew 5:21-22
GOD SAYS NO TO 5 THINGS
No to
SUICIDE
No to
MERCY-KILLING
No to
WILLFUL ACTS
OF VIOLENCE
No to
ABORTION
No to
GENOCIDE
GENOCIDES IN THE LAST CENTURY
1915-1918
Armenians in Turkey
1,500,000 deaths
1932-1933
Stalin's Forced Famine
7,000,000 deaths
1937-1938
Rape of Nanking
300,000 deaths
1938-1945
Nazi Holocaust in WW2
6,000,000 deaths
GENOCIDES IN THE LAST CENTURY
1975-1979
Pol Pot in Cambodia
2,000,000 deaths
1992-1995
Bosnia-Herzegovina
200,000 deaths
1994
Rwanda
800,000 deaths
UNITED NATIONS DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE
“Any of the following acts committed with intent to
destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial
or religious group, as such: killing members of the
group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the
group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing
measures intended to prevent births within the
group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group.”