Thanks for posting this Charlie.
I wish I could get a copy of this paper as it is a subject that I find intensley interesting.
I think he is accurate in expressing a need to diferentiate killing from murder. Actually, I believe that there is probably a need for three as I believe capital punshiment to be pretty clearly distinguished from murder in the Bible.
I find the dichotomy on this subject in the Bible to be facinating. On the one had war is clearly indicated to be bad, evil and the result of the fall. On the other hand, it appears as well that war was a tool God used. David was a man who pursued God and was clearly loved by God, but he was a warriors warrior, a man that clearly lived by that ethos. War was used by God by Israel to lay claim to the promise land, and used by God again to punish Israel.
I think a parallel that might well be relevant is natural disaster, which has been (is) used by God for His own purposes, but is clearly defined as evil. This may well be a question that of a personal theodicy.
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