And I am not trying to be a richard, these are just questions I have had: ( I have my own beliefs)
10 Commandants says: Thou shall not kill
Doesn't say what, it doesn't say your situation my dictate it say (SHALL NOT KILL)
God has given man free will which we answer for by mans laws and moral law. I kill in a man in cold blood I have punishment on earth and to god.
What about what military guys do by being under orders?
What about hunters who hunt for sport (not to feed your family?)
Is it not all killing?
Sorry I'm a little late to the party, but I'll take a stab at this from this Christian's perspective.
God gave the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" in the Old Testament. That's a pretty easy one for most of us (excluding those of you who served in the military). However, take a look at what Jesus said in the New Testament (Matthew 5:21-22):
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, You fool! will be liable to the hell of fire."So essentially Jesus comes along and takes a somewhat easy-to-follow rule and equates anger in one's heart with murder. I'm pretty sure that covers the rest of us, myself included.
The point is not that if you follow a set of rules you'll be judged as a "good" person and get to go to Heaven when you die, or you don't follow the rules and you go to hell. It's that every one of us is completely incapable of living up to the perfect standard that God has. The only person that could and did was Jesus. He lived the life we can't live and he paid the punishment that we should have received when he died on the Cross. The good news is that three days later he was resurrected and in doing so defeated death once and for all. As a result he calls us to live a life of repentance and believe in Him, accept the work he did for you on the Cross. He did everything. You don't have to do anything but believe in faith, and in doing so you will receive eternal life.
Being a Christian doesn't mean that you're perfect. It means that you realize that you are anything but, and you put your hope and faith in the One who was. There is such freedom in that. I don't have to sit around and worry about following a set of rules. I still royally screw up on a daily basis, but I know that my sins are forgiven - past, present and future. And in a morbid way, the day I die will be the greatest day of my life, because I won't have to live in a broken creation that produces F5 tornadoes, Sandy Hook school shootings, cancer, and the like.