The "Sixth Commandment"

The Sixth Commandment - Do Not Murder or Do Not Kill?

 Someone posted this on Facebook this morning:  

"Abortion means terminating pregnancy  Terminate means to bring to an end.  The end is death. Therefore, abortion is murder."

Bingo.  It just occurred to me why people quibble over whether the word in the sixth commandment should be translated as "kill" or as "murder."  Translating it as "kill" would infer that putting to death any sentient being is wrong.  But if they translate it as "murder" then they can argue that it only applies to human beings.   Those in favor of abortion refer to an unborn baby as a "fetus"--in other words, not human yet.  But they cannot deny that it is a sentient being.  Interestingly enough, as I've written elsewhere, even  anti-abortionists get very upset when their "pro-life" designator is called into question.  Everyone draws a line for whose life is valuable, but Yah says ALL life is valuable and we do not have the right to take the life of any sentient being.

I have often heard people claim that it's o.k. to kill someone in self-defense.  But is it really?  Our Messiah said, 

Mat 5:38  "Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."

It doesn't sound to me like he would condone the taking of a life under any circumstances.  As a matter of fact, he did not fight back or resist even when his own life was being taken.

Do we really believe and follow his teachings, or is it all merely lip service?

Yes, the way is narrow, which leads to life, and few find it.

I am a pacifist.  I do not believe in taking the life of another under any circumstances.