God liked Moses who killed, and David who killed and Joshua so why the 6th commandment?

God condemns all murder, but he does not condemn killing for reasons of war. He might not desire it, but assuredly, when his nation was attacked, he defended them by miracles, by letting them win wars wherein his people fought. Samson is a good example where God used an individual to cause trouble for those bringing hardship upon God's elect nation at the time.

The only one who was guilty of a kind of killing was David who didn't raise his own hand, but used the war to endanger the person who died and he counted on the war being dangerous enough to get him killed. For this reason, David was severely punished even though he repented.

If you think of using Moses as an example, God used Moses as a deliverer from slavery, thus Moses' killing was again 'in defense of his nation' and according to what God permits for men at war.

They were approved by god, who had the right to say who lives, or dies.

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self defense differs from murder.

an adult can see this.

do you have the right to defend yourself from someone who would harm you? how would you do this? (if the police could not be called)

thou shalt do no MURDER (is the actual commandment).

you need to study more.

want the Hebrew words?

*ask*

all men sin, if they are truely repentant then they are acceptable to god.

Moses’ murder cost the Israelites another 40 years of slavery. Moses didn’t have the law when he killed the Egyptian. He thought he could lead a rebellion and free his fellow Israelites his way... without God. A good example of how we screw things up on our own.

David murdered to cover his adultery. The steep cost of his sin was the life of his child (who he said he would go to, knowing the child would not return to him from death). God showed no mercy and their relationship was never quite the same after. That’s the way the Bible is: it never covers up our failures.

Joshua was commanded to lay siege in war - sparing none. The people he killed were sacrificing their own children in fire to their (fake) gods. It was a ‘destroy the evil or the evil will destroy you’ situation. God sanctioned war in a kill or be killed time. You probably wouldn’t be here if they were allowed to live.

God knows what He’s doing. He surely doesn’t need our advice.

The 6th commandment properly translated is "you shall not murder".

There is a difference between killing and murder.

People in the military who fight in a war kill, but someone like Jack the Ripper murders.

We shouldn't kill as it means ending a life and our God is God of the living. He's also righteous. All people who died then and since, can be restored. As God can make the dead live again. Our God has real power.

It's speaking about murder, not killing. There is a vast difference. One is birthed out of malice and selfishness, the other can be about duty or service, protection and in some cases, righteousness. It was right that we invaded to destroy the Nazis. It is not murder in this case as it is not birthed out of malice. What they did was murder, as they extinguished ~11 million people because they thought they were lesser than them and deserved to die.

All this has to do with unjust killings. God's killings were just. There were killings that weren't just but they didn't go without consequences.

But WHY? You want to know the letter of the law kills.

Long story for Moses. He led the people of God.

The Commandment MEANT...do not kill each other.

Which people can do today. An argument, violence erupts.

Pubs are notorious for this kind of thing.

Thou shalt not cover etc....all about neighbours, never enemies who were plotting to kill, overthrow.

Shouldn't this be obvious?