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Quote by: Fonceai  So you would love the person who rapes and murders your wife and violently sodomizes your son to death? |
Yes. I am commanded to, but more than that I am able, through faith, to see the greater picture through spiritual eyes. I can recognize that the act done to my wife or son is already completed. Were I to retaliate with anything other than love, then only an escalation could occur. However, with love and forgiveness, walls are torn down and the distance between that rapist and myself becomes less, which means he is being brought closer to Jesus Christ.
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If they attempted to do this in your home, while you were present, and the only way you could stop the person would be to kill them (or else they would come to your home again and again until they succeeded), would you kill the person in an act of defense?
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I have thought much about this. I do not believe I could kill another human being, even in self defense. I am saved, and because of my salvation my family is saved. I would not fear for their destination, but I would fear for my own were I to succumb to rage or strinking out/back at some violent intruder.
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Or another way to ask the question...
Because you can never truly know the extent of a man's intent until a deed is completed, would you kill him to prevent him from fulfilling his intention?
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No.
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Drop the Bible talk and answer plainly. A man is in your home. He says that he intends to rape your wife and son until they are dead. The only way you can stop him is to kill him and you have a 2-second window in which to do so or else you will be rendered immobile and forced to watch.
Do you kill him?
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I disagree with your statement that what you say is the only way to stop him. Prayer can be amazingly powerful as it is probable that at some point in the past that would-be attacker has heard at least some portion of the word. I would pray and tell him that I love him and forgive him (at least in my heart that is what I pray I would do in that circumstance) and that he doesn't need to do this thing.
As I have said, love wins out. Love conquers all. There is no victory to be had, except that which was made through love.