Ten Commandments (1972)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

"The Sixth Commandment 93
many to other forms of murder. Thousands of young
women each year are committing a crime against God and
man which is far greater than most of them have perhaps
realized. In their desire to evade responsibility or to cover
up shame, they are willfully taking the lives of unborn
babies still carried in their wombs! This practice is called
abortion - and it is clearly MURDER in the sight of the
Almighty God who gave these little lives!
So-called "mercy killing" is simply the revival of an
ancient pagan practice! It advocates the medical "murder"
of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in
great pain.
But, once again, men who advocate such practices
have left GOD completely out of the picture! They don't
think of God as REAL. They forget that God GAVE life ­
and that he alone has the right to take it away. And in
many cases they are ignorant of His divine POWER to heal
any kind of disease or sickness - no matter what the
medical science of the moment might be able to do.
God has NEVER given the right to puny, mortal men
to carryon such a so-called practice as "mercy killing." Its
practitioners will stand guilty before His judgment for
MURDER!
There is another species of murder that uses the
tongue as its instrument. This is the case of a man so
reviling, condemning and scandalizing his fellow human
being as to lead him to physical and mental sickness ­
and possibly death or suicide.
The Apostle Paul describes the attitude of these men
who have forgotten God: "Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness;
full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity;
whisperers, backbiters ..." (Rom. 1:29-30). Paul says the
judgment of God indicates that such men "are worthy of
death" (verse 32).
Those who revile or scandalize their fellow man to
the point of misery and distraction are GUILTY of the spirit
of murder - and perhaps literal murder if such action
leads to the death of a fellow human being!