“Funny how anything you don’t like is a mistranslation.”
What I ‘like’ is quite beside-the-point. I know the language in which Jesus and his fellow Judeans & Galileans spoke when dealing with each other — and that language was Hebrew, the same language in which the ‘Old’ Testament (which includes the Commandments) was written.
As I have already shown, there is NO Commandment forbidding ‘killing,’ per se. Exodus 20:12 is crystal clear: the Commandment forbids MURDER — lo tirtzach. Had it prohibited ‘killing,’ it would’ve said, ‘lo taharog.’ Not even close.
https://mechon-mamre.Org/p/pt/pt0220.htm
The Commandments are not a suicide pact. QTC, in fact, they are a guide for LIVING in a fallen world, and if there were such a Commandment to not ‘kill,’ it would have neither relevance nor legitimacy in such a world, where it is often necessary to kill just to remain alive.
“Jesus used the words interchangeably.”
That is utter nonsense; it’s sheer, self-serving drivel. Not only did he NOT use the words interchangeably, but he was the absolute LEAST of persons who would even be likely to do so.
“Jesus is quoted in Matthew 5:21 as saying…’Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment’…”
The overwhelming majority of translations explicitly & exclusively use the word MURDER in that passage. The few which don’t are unmistakably mistranslations. https://biblehub.Com/matthew/5-21.htm
“But all of this is a moot point when applying it to Palestinian children being bombed in their beds as they sleep. Under no circumstances were they participants in any war. They were unarmed and clearly non-combatants who were too young to join Hamas or to even have voted for Hamas. Killing them was, therefore, murder…”
Quite so. It is INDEED murder.
But you should be telling this to Hamas: because it is clearly THEY — not the Israelis, who are defending their people against such scum — who are at fault for those murders. Remember, if I deliberately push somebody into the path of a moving train, which then kills him, the authorities will — quite rightly — charge ME with the murder, not the train’s engineer.
Send the bill to the Hamassholes. Getting their women & children killed is — and has always been — an integral part of their PR game plan.
What’s more, if you haven’t figured that out by now, it’s because you simply don’t WANT to.
And that’s ALWAYS been the bottom line. . . .