I’m not a person that does a lot of watching the TV. I also don’t listen to the radio very much. So Monday morning when I got up and pushed the search button on the radio of my car. I was very much shocked at hearing about the horrific mass killing that happen in Las Vegas. Somehow in the back of my mind I wanted the anchorman to say “ Just kidding ”, or “ you’ve been pranked ”, or I would have even accepted “ April fools ”   But none of this happened;   All I could hear was the astronomical numbers of nearly 50 people killed and 400 people injured. And throughout the day these numbers swelled to nearly sixty killed and over 500 people injured.  Somehow this man came to the Mandalay Bay hotel with 10 large assault weapons and fired into a crowd of people enjoying an outdoor concert. And our response to this type atrocity, this complete and utter dismissal of respect for the human life, has never been to legislate stricter laws concerning gun control. So there...

Because this teaching is a little longer than I would like it to be, I will get right to the point. The Question asked of me this week by the teenager is; “If God says “ Thou Shall Not Kill ” ( Exodus 20:13) then why does He order the utter destruction of the nation of the Amalekites?” Provisions for Killing   When we consider Exodus 20:13 we as Christians must see it in the perspective that God intended, not take on the widely accepted mindset of the world.  The accepted worldview (how non-Christians think) can be as subtle as the individual wants, or extreme as the individual wants it to be.   Some extremists may say that we should not kill at all, for any reason. Many pacifist have taken this worldview to such an extreme that they have become vegetarians.  Yet they kill plants for food.     Then there are the people claiming to be a breatharians , able to live on the air alone, these people have taken not killing to such an extreme t...