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Charlie Kirk - If someone were to murder me... · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  If someone were to murder Alex or murder mean they already
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  murdered themselves in that action, they already bestowed
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  the punishment upon themselves. We are simply completing the
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  task. When you take another person's
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  life, you already took your own life.
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  I have concerns over things like the death penalty.
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  Is it, I mean, it's one of the 10 commandments, you said no
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  murder. So it is it somehow justified
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  because they're such a horrible criminal, or are they
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  eliminating or changing the trajectory of God's plan for
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  what it was supposed to be because they murdered somebody
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  and you know, they didn't go when God was ready for them.
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  Great question. So I get the question a lot.
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  So it does say do not murder. It does not say do not kill.
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  So those are two different Hebrew words, right?
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  So to murder is a completely different thing than to kill.
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  For example, you're allowed to kill in self-defense.
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  Somebody comes into your house, you are allowed to take that
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  life if your life is being put into jeopardy.
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  In fact, to go a step further, the reason why it made sense to
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  ancient Israel, did you know that a life for a life otherwise
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  known as the death penalty is the only law that is in all five
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  books of the Torah. It's the only law.
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  Not even the Sabbath is in all five books of the Torah.
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  Now the Sabbath exists in Genesis, but it's not in all
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  five books. So this idea of taking a life,
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  if you take a life, what is it rooted in?
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  Why does it matter? Well, first of all, God is
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  communicating to us the first thing taking human life is a
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  major deal. That's God's first moral
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  teaching in the Torah, that it's not to be trivialized.
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  Let me give you another example, basic.
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  There's a there's a law of the 613 laws of Judaism of which we
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  are not bound to the civil of the ceremonial law, which is one
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  of them that if an animal takes a human life, you must kill that
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  animal. So it's like, OK, that's like
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  why do that? Well, what what are you going to
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  like have you know? Oh yeah, that's Lenny.
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  He killed my uncle and you know his say hi like you're going to
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  keep that animal around. The only punishment imaginable
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  for taking the thing that only we are made in the image of God.
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  So if you take another image bearer's life, what could
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  possibly be a just punishment for that?
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  Well, according to the economy of God, it's that you, your life
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  must also be taken. And according to on scriptural
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  theology, we are not taking that person's life.
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  When you take another person's life, you already took your own
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  life. I want you to think about that.
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  If if, if someone were to murder Alex or murder me, they already
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  murdered themselves in that action.
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  They already bestowed the punishment upon themselves.
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  We are simply completing the task.
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  And think about it. Some people will say, but
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  Charlie, you know, it's not fair because of whatever sob story
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  liberal reason. How is it?
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  You know what? And honestly, no.
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  And I'll just close with it. I'll kind of finish with this.
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  But you know who it's not fair to?
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  It's not fair to the victims. You are cheapening the lives of
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  the victims. You are basically saying the
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  victims die and you get to live. So you get to continue to live
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  even though you took the lives of others.
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  So for example, I think it's fundamentally wrong that that
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  creep who killed those 4 college kids in Mosca, Iowa, that he
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  gets to keep living. So he kills 4 college kids and
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  he keeps keeps on getting to have life and those people don't
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  in order to say that those people's lives mattered.
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  The only just thing that we can reason ourselves to is to take
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  that person's life. And that is not murder, that is
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  killing. And it's societal self-defense.