by Frank Retief | Nov 1, 2013 | Thought for the day
Psalm 139:13. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Under the title of violence I want to point out that this 6th Commandment forbids abortion. We need to be very aware of this application. We have no right to take any human...
by Frank Retief | Oct 31, 2013 | Thought for the day
Matthew 5:22. But I say to you that anyone who is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement. Having looked at what the 6th Commandment does not forbid, let’s see what it does forbid. In this commandment God includes all...
by Frank Retief | Oct 30, 2013 | Thought for the day
Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder Furthermore, this commandment does not forbid war. The pros and cons of a particular war are not to be considered here. I am simply saying that legitimate warfare may be God’s way of dealing out judgement to offending nations....
by Frank Retief | Oct 29, 2013 | Thought for the day
Exodus 21:12. He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. There are a number of things this commandment was not intended to forbid. The first is capital punishment. Capital punishment is based on the premise that it is God who gives life...
by Frank Retief | Oct 28, 2013 | Thought for the day
Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder There are three sins which the Bible describes as crying out for vengeance. The first is the sin of the oppression by the powerful over the poor, the weak and the needy. Psalm 12:5 talks about the groaning or the crying out of...
by Frank Retief | Oct 27, 2013 | Thought for the day
Exodus 20:13. You shall not murder. I once attended an exhibition of photographs put together by news journalists. There was a sequence of enlarged prints depicting a man astride another man with a knife held high above his head. The photographs depicted the...
