Hi brothers and sisters of Christ.
About killing and murder... It is explicitly stated in one of the Ten Commandments that murder is wrong. Now, I'm not an avid Bible-reader, but I consider myself a philosopher. And in my studies, Thomas Aquinas who was the greatest medieval Christian theologian mentioned THREE things that can make murder justified. But keep in mind, this is in the context of war. And war can be justified by three reasons.
Haha. Unfortunately, I can only remember ONE of those reasons, but I think it's the most provocative. And it is this. Legitimacy of the sovereign... Which basically means that if Jesus (a legitimate sovereign) commands you to wage war against evil entities, you wage war against evil entities.
What do you all think of this?
Wars are mostly about how individuals serve a Caesar in one way or another.
God on the other hand will only employ His chosen Israel to do the job, such that Israel can survive history to bring today's humans with God's salvation. Only God's salvation has such a priority.
Evil will be destroyed at the point of the Final Judgment. Before that everyone is given a chance to repent, unless the peoples are under Satan's employment (such as the Canaanites) to try to undermine God's plan. Then God will go through Israel to have them eradicated.
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