Steve writes:

> That's because they conveniently overlook the fact that "an eye for an
>  eye" was the Old Testament, pre-Christ "policy" (along with numerous
>  other items, like animal and human sacrifice). The birth, life, and
>  death of Jesus marked a re-negotiation of the contract; the "New Deal"
>  replaced "eye for an eye" with "turn the other cheek".

While that is the essence of the testament of Jesus, it's certainly not
original with Jesus either. Moses received the Ten Commandments while leading
his people out of Egypt to form a new nation. In that, Exodus 20 reads:

"And God spake all these words, saying,

"2": I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt,
out of the house of bondage.

"3": Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

"4": Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth:

"5": Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD
thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

"6": And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.

"7": Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD
will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

"8": Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

"9": Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

"10": But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant,
nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates:

"11": For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the
sabbath day, and hallowed it.

"12": Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

"13": Thou shalt not kill.

There are no caveats or exemptions or dispensations or legal loopholes in
this last statement. You either abide by it, or you don't.

Wirt Atmar

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