Based on the bolded section, it would have been defense of another. Worst he should have faced would have been manslaughter. Once he hid the body, his conduct suggested guilt.
Moses didn't commit murder as we think of it. He defended another human being. I wish pastors would quit saying that was murder.
I can't recall Moses bearing a weapon later in the Bible, but we may not be using the same translation. Remember his context - he was raised in Pharaoh's house, then called by God.
It's putting God in an awfully small box to think that He couldn't have accomplished the arrival of His Son if we had somehow imprisoned Moses. My God doesn't fit in any box my mind can come up with. That's why He's God and I'm not.
The gist of the story is that Moses was a bit of a hot head. Even years later he struck the rock instead of speaking to it and that cost him entry into the promised land. Yet, interestingly, he is called the the most humble man on earth.
His striking the rock put a kink in God's plan to show how, once the rock (Jesus) was smitten the first time, then all we would have to do is speak to the Rock (Jesus) after that to receive the living water. Moses threw some wacky paint on God's picture and messed it up. God didn't like it and punished him. It produced even more change in him as he became what God knew was inside him - the most humble man on earth.
How is it possible that Moses changed? People don't change. Right? lol. Thousands of people do change. If that weren't the case there would be no need for punishment since they can't change anyway.
Punishment has always been implemented with the goal of producing change and/or restitution. That is, until recent history.
God gave us the perfect judicial punishment system. Under that system, in my case, first of all I would not have been punished at all. Because carrying a weapon produces no victim. Without a victim, there is no crime. Once I was wrongly charged with armed robbery two things could have happend:
1) Since It was claimed that I took $61 (we had more than $3k on us when arrested) then by God's laws, if convicted I would have had to pay back double or $121.00 and I would have been on my way. If it was determined that the so called "victim" had suffered duress I would have had to pay whatever the court determined was fair. If I could not pay I would have gone into confinement to work the debt off.
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2) If I could prove the plaintiff was lying then HE would have to suffer whatever punishment I would have received had I been convicted.
Either way none of the outcomes could have resulted in a sentence that followed me a single day past the day the sentence was complete.
If anyone cares to study the value of biblical punishments the best, most concise info I have ever found is located here:
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Ok so what am I supposed to gain from this? You still disply utter contempt for the Law (you know that thing the Bible commands you to obey?) by illegally owning firearms. There's the rub, you decided that the law didn't apply to you and found out the hard way that it did now put on your big boy panties and deal with it.
That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever read on the internet. what are you going to do when the bad guy doesn't change his mind and you find out the hard way that a blank round won't cycle the action on your illegally owned gun?
Treo, I believe the Bible allows me to disobey laws that conflict with God's own stance. I have searched the entire bible and haven't found anywhere where a man's duty to protect his family can be legislated away by some pin head politician. You may not believe this. You will not be standing before God in my place at the end of my life so your opinion on that matter is relevant only to you.
Regarding the blanks. The cycling is not an issue except on one. My son has a 1911. It will not cycle with the blanks. He carries it anyway. It's his choice. He has to rack it after the first shot. He is well practiced and is fast and accurate.
The reason for the blank is because he doesn't want to hurt anyone. None of us do. I would imagine that if any of us ever have to fire upon anyone regardless of what their intent was towards us it would scar us permanently and we would have to lean on each other and God to get through it.
The last thing I'd ever want to do is be the final end of someone's chance to make their life mean something here on earth. But if it meant the life of my wife or kids I'd continue pulling the trigger till the threat was neutralized. I pray that day will never come.
You don't need to understand it, nor approve of it. I didn't ask for your approval and don't need it. But I knew it would be made fun of when I revealed it. I was just trying to uncover the false implication that I and my family (via their support of me) were some kind of thugs running around menacing society between prison terms.
And for all he "shank" and other prison junk that's being thrown around, I think I may have given some the impression that I was in prison. I've never been in prison a day in my life. It's all just more fodder for false conclusions about me.