What Can You Kill?
This commandment is seen as simply avoiding murdering another person. Although a broken and challenged commandment for some, it is oftentimes upheld in the context of human life and acting to stop physical life. However, what happens when the life is not physical? What happens when the life is in a smile, in someone’s joy, in one’s effort, in wisdom, in one’s understanding? We are still accountable to know that “Thou shalt not kill”. What happens when we do things indirectly and not directly…when we did not do it but we knowingly put things in place to get them done? We are still accountable to know that “Thou shalt not kill”. What happens when the life is not a human life…when it is an animal or an insect? My grandparents taught me on this vein. Although man has been given dominion over the animals and insects to be able to kill, it must be for a purpose such as safety or food or clothing.
If killing is done to non-humans without any purpose or value to the sustenance of mankind, the person can be guilty of having a murderous spirit where accountability is agnostic of the object!
Then you ARE a murderer regardless of whether you have killed or what you have killed!!!!
