6th Commandment

[Lou Newton]

This verse should not have to be explained, but this verse is one of the most misused in The Bible.

[redsoxmaloney]

This verse should not have to be explained, but this verse is one of the most misused in The Bible.

Prager university is spot on on alot of there material.

[Steve Hollander]

Very well put. Amen

[Lou Newton]

Very well put. Amen

Thanks for the reply Steve. It is a simple verse, but misunderstood by many.

[glen smith]

"Thou shall not kill" might be misunderstood and applied by people:
who do not go to church,
who attend churches where the Bible is not taught,
who have been going to church for a short time or irregularly.

However, being raised in a Texas Baptist church we wanted to affirm:
the states right to kill that no good sinner,
the honor of the soldier for his service in the wars starting with the civil war (Nearly every church had a wall dedicated to servicemen.),
the necessity for the policeman to kill the criminal,
the obligation (not right) for the home owner to defend his home and property with lethal force - usually with a 12 gauge so the rascal couldn't break-in to another decent person's house.

Not only did the preacher address the meaning, I recall it being in the primary grade Sunday School material on the Ten Commandments.

Well, you all know how we red-necked backward Texans are and Baptist Texas are the most opinionated.
Texans have a long history of believing things are the way we want them to be or or ought to be.
For example:
Texas has the death penalty.
We are still the largest state in the real union before those unionist started adopting far off foreign places as states.
By the way - I remain at heart a secessionist from the union.
To heck with the south rising again. I want Texas to regain its status as a nation.
The Texas capital in Austin has a prominently displayed brass plaque of the Ten Commandments.
And . . . Texas does not have an income tax.
Instead of an income tax Texas has state owned oil fields because Texas is the only state to retain ownership of its lands when it made the mistake of joining the union.
Texas has the sixth largest economy in the world.
Texas would be just fine without the other 49.
Hope all this does not make you all think less of my religious and political opinions.
But it ought if you all take me seriously.

Of interest: In 2016 there were 20 legal executions in the USA.
2 blacks
2 Latinos
16 whites

[Lou Newton]

"Thou shall not kill" might be misunderstood and applied by people:
who do not go to church,
who attend churches where the Bible is not taught,
who have been going to church for a short time or irregularly.

However, being raised in a Texas Baptist church we wanted to affirm:
the states right to kill that no good sinner,
the honor of the soldier for his service in the wars starting with the civil war (Nearly every church had a wall dedicated to servicemen.),
the necessity for the policeman to kill the criminal,
the obligation (not right) for the home owner to defend his home and property with lethal force - usually with a 12 gauge so the rascal couldn't break-in to another decent person's house.

Not only did the preacher address the meaning, I recall it being in the primary grade Sunday School material on the Ten Commandments.

Well, you all know how we red-necked backward Texans are and Baptist Texas are the most opinionated.
Texans have a long history of believing things are the way we want them to be or or ought to be.
For example:
Texas has the death penalty.
We are still the largest state in the real union before those unionist started adopting far off foreign places as states.
By the way - I remain at heart a secessionist from the union.
To heck with the south rising again. I want Texas to regain its status as a nation.
The Texas capital in Austin has a prominently displayed brass plaque of the Ten Commandments.
And . . . Texas does not have an income tax.
Instead of an income tax Texas has state owned oil fields because Texas is the only state to retain ownership of its lands when it made the mistake of joining the union.
Texas has the sixth largest economy in the world.
Texas would be just fine without the other 49.
Hope all this does not make you all think less of my religious and political opinions.
But it ought if you all take me seriously.

Of interest: In 2016 there were 20 legal executions in the USA.
2 blacks
2 Latinos
16 whites

Thanks for the reply Glen - I hope Texas succeeds too along with the whole Midwest.

[Baruch]

Hope all this does not make you all think less of my religious and political opinions.
But it ought if you all take me seriously.

You almost persuade me to come to Texas.

[Lou Newton]

You almost persuade me to come to Texas.

Barry I have been to Dallas 4 times and the thing that I remember most is the humidity and heat. Me an Isaac got up at dawn to run and it was already hot and humid. That heat really took the wind out of our sails.

[glen smith]

Texas heat . . . nothing but prep for where most of us are headed? When I was a child the humidity was lower, but the construction of reservoirs and the increase in watering yards with the ten fold increase in population has increased the humidity. I thought the Great Lakes would be a factor in Ohio. The British government allows hardship pay for diplomats stationed in Houston which is considered tropical. Dallas and Houston areas are the least representative places of what the rest of Texas is like. The 2015 population of Loving County grew to 112 from 83 in 2010. That is a density of one tenth of a person per square mile. Loving county is a relative small county for the Trans Pecos. Texas has about 90 counties with population densities under 10 per square mile and about 30 counties with a population density under 3 persons per square mile. However, to graze one cow in most of these areas requires 80 to 150 acres, and its 150 miles to find gasoline.

[Lou Newton]

Texas heat . . . nothing but prep for where most of us are headed? When I was a child the humidity was lower, but the construction of reservoirs and the increase in watering yards with the ten fold increase in population has increased the humidity. I thought the Great Lakes would be a factor in Ohio. The British government allows hardship pay for diplomats stationed in Houston which is considered tropical. Dallas and Houston areas are the least representative places of what the rest of Texas is like. The 2015 population of Loving County grew to 112 from 83 in 2010. That is a density of one tenth of a person per square mile. Loving county is a relative small county for the Trans Pecos. Texas has about 90 counties with population densities under 10 per square mile and about 30 counties with a population density under 3 persons per square mile. However, to graze one cow in most of these areas requires 80 to 150 acres, and its 150 miles to find gasoline.

Thanks Glen, interesting. One thing I was surprised about was oil wells. I did not see many in Texas where I was, but here in Ohio they are everywhere around where I live.