How Do You Defend Your Home?

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Originally Posted by Professor S

From Exodus

True, but that's not all of it.

Originally Posted by Exodus 22:2,3

“If a thief should be found in the act of breaking in and he does get struck and die, there is no bloodguilt for him. If the sun has shone forth upon him, there is bloodguilt for him.

Only when it was dark, was the defender not guilty of bloodshed. When it was during the day, he wasn't allowed to kill him, probably because he could identify the offender and justice could be served.

Even though the old testament directly doesn't apply to us (for example, we don't kill people for fornication anymore), we can learn something from it. You are allowed to defend your life, but would you kill somebody if he only was after your possessions? Hm maybe this scripture can be interesting here, I don't know.

Originally Posted by 1 John 2:15-17

Do not be loving either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; because everything in the world—the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one’s means of life—does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world. Furthermore, the world is passing away and so is its desire, but he that does the will of God remains forever.

Anyway, I think I'm pretty much done with this discussion, but I just felt you had left something out.