the ORIGINAL phrase is "thou shalt not commit MURDER". Much killing is heroism, on the field of battle, for instance, or self defense, or accidental So stop lying about what God said.
Aaah ... The Bible. If you don't like what it says just suddenly discover that it was translated wrong and change it so it says what you want it to say. Does war fit in with turn the other cheek?
it said EXACTLY what I said that it does, pard. The fact that YOU don't like it doesn't change it. The jews had no problem at all with killing Phillistines, etc. and they should not have. I mean, invasion is perfectly ok, IF you can get away with it.
The Bible is an arbitrary compendium of oft-transferred, word-of-mouth tales, eventually recorded in one form or another, and repeatedly edited, amended, transcribed, translated, and printed - every stage of which, for two millennia, evidences inevitable human fallibility. "Thou shalt not kill" may well have started out as something like "Don't kick Melchizedek in the tuchus!" It gains something in the translation.
