Outer Streams, Emmanuel Swedenborg Part 7 of 8

[subbtopp]

Isn't killing killing what ever the circumstance?

If you believe in god and the after life, then maybe having your family killed in front of you is a test of faith to see if you can walk the walk. For after death you have etenal life?

But humans tend to bend the laws of god to fit their own agenda.

[adambrowne01]

@subbtopp the point of the whole "thou shalt not kill" disussion is that rules to fit with people not the other way round so no law can be absolutely definite and absolute in its nature, it's stupid not to take into account other variables that would affect one's judgement

[Lion117]

Hail yeah.

[JLizard]

That Immanual Kant's, ES's world famous adversary, Categorical Imperative was not mentioned here numbs me sillily