[Seekers] Punishment

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Michael W. Fisher <mwfisher@cts.com> writes


>Steven Carr wrote:



>> The Bible does indeed tell us what murder is, and what manslaughter is.

>> The reference is Numbers 35:16-32



>    Is a killing in self defense murder? Is a killing in defense of another

>murder?

>

>    When the patriarhes of the OT wrote "man" that is generally precisely

>what it meant -- men. The prohibitions agains murder are agains men

>stricking other men and killing them with blows. Is it or is it not muder

>then to kill a woman? A child? Can a woman commit murder? Is it murder to

>drown or strangle or poison someone? Where does the Bible say so, one way

>or the other? How would any of those be reconciled with Num 35:24?


I never said that it gave us a *good* definition of murder or a usable
definition. I just said that it gave us a definition. The fact that it
is comical is for defenders of Biblical absolute moral values to worry
about.

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