Monday, February 9, 2015

Exodus, 21, 23-25

Here is the famous, eye for and eye and tooth for a tooth tit-for-tat retaliatory justice.

It may be a bit too harsh, but we are not meant by the Good Spirits to just turn the other cheek and be nonviolent while thugs and predators rape, murder and rob among us.

We should show mercy and forgiveness, but if a creep enters one's home or business to do crime, if he is shot and killed, that is just.

We do not want to be too harsh and vengeful, but we do not want to be so gentle and vulnerable that we embolden evildoers to prey on us. As men and women in God's army, we have a duty to repel attackers. This is our right; this is God's expectation of us.

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