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Thread #147471   Message #3418986
Posted By: DMcG
13-Oct-12 - 02:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for disobedient children
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for disobedient children
"Obviously God. I don't see your point."

I'll try to be clearer. The commandment says 'murder', and it is being interpreted that the it is the state which decides whether a specific killing is murder or not. So if the state has decided it is not, is God bound to follow that decision? If the state has decided it is mrder, is God bound to follow that decision? If the the answer to both of those is 'yes', then it is not God deciding whether the commandment is broken, it is the state. On the other hand, if God is not bound to agree with the state then it cannot be the state that determines whether a killing is murder or not.