 “Kill” or “Murder?” Jesus Fulfilled
the Law and Deepened the Teaching
Even though the adversary of God managed to fundamentally falsify the words of the prophet Moses, the words of the Ten Commandments – which are an excerpt of the eternal and absolute law of the heavens – have remained mostly untouched down to our time.
The fifth commandment reads and has always read: You shall not kill.
But, in a new 1985 unity translation of the German New Jerusalem Bible it says: You shall not murder. This version should be attributed to the God of the spirit-of-the-times. It represents an attenuation of the encompassing statement “You shall not kill.” In His Sermon on the Mount, Jesus even said: You have heard that it was said to the men of old, ‘You shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that every one who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother shall be liable to the council, and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to the hell of fire. (Mt. 5:21-22)
Jesus did not qualify the absolute statement “You shall not kill.” He did not restrict its meaning to specific cases: on the contrary, Jesus deepened it. He taught that against-the-neighbor not only lies in the accomplished act of killing, but is already contained in hurtful or pejorative words, and the feelings and sensations that lie in them. He called our attention to the fact that every fine stirring of rejection of neighbor, perhaps of our animal brothers and sisters, our second neighbors, as well, is a sin before God. In this way, Jesus called on us to sensitize our conscience.
And Jesus explicitly spoke of “killing,” not “murder.”
Jeremiah had already told the people about the falsification of “the scriptures.” In Jeremiah 8:8 he spoke of “the false pen of the scribes” who have made the law of the Lord “into a lie.”
Whose “false pen” has now again falsified the word of God through Moses? Whom do those serve who would do such a thing? What should be justified by the statement “You shall not murder?” Is this statement again meant to appease the conscience of people, so that they will not react when injustice is being done?
The un-spirit of the Old Testament prepared the way and demonstrated the method; and in the New Testament the falsifications were successfully carried through until today, using a clear method, plan and purpose. Under the eyes of many millions of people gifted with a thinking mind – abracadabra! – white turns into black. Are these the miracles of today?
Anyone indifferent to the radical divergence between these two statements, killing and murder, sits on two chairs and tries to serve two masters: the spirit of the cruel “God” of the “Books of Moses,” and thus the institutional churches, and on the other hand a little bit of Jesus, the Christ, who taught the God of merciful love.
Jesus said in the following sense: My Father and I are one. Where two are one, they speak the same language. May the one who has ears to hear, listen!
What did Jesus teach in His Sermon on the Mount? Anyone who simply gets angry with his neighbor will be liable to the court. And whoever insults another will be liable to the council. (Mt. 5-22) May the one who has ears to hear, listen! And the one who has a conscience will follow Jesus, the Christ, and will do what is written in the Revelation of John: Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues … (Rev. 18:4)
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