Hebrew Student
Puritan Board Freshman
Yvonne,
As I understand you, you are using the term "promote" in the sense of "generate" or "allow to come into existence." However, isn't the issue of murder when life already exists? How can you murder a "potential life" when murder, by definition, is the taking of life that already exists, and is not potential? I can understand how a positive aspect of this commandment might be to *preserve* life, because that would presuppose that the life already exists.
The issue with this commandment seems to be that God is only one who can give and take life, and hence, we must preserve it until he decides to take it, and not try to take it ourselves.
God Bless,
Adam
Not only are we to not murder, but we are also to do all things to promote and protect life.
As I understand you, you are using the term "promote" in the sense of "generate" or "allow to come into existence." However, isn't the issue of murder when life already exists? How can you murder a "potential life" when murder, by definition, is the taking of life that already exists, and is not potential? I can understand how a positive aspect of this commandment might be to *preserve* life, because that would presuppose that the life already exists.
The issue with this commandment seems to be that God is only one who can give and take life, and hence, we must preserve it until he decides to take it, and not try to take it ourselves.
God Bless,
Adam