SIXTH COMMANDMENT: Thou shalt not kill.
Why does the Lord tell us not to kill? Because it will stop their progression and their learning experience here on earth. We all come for at least three reasons.
Reason One: All of His children need to come to the earth and obtain a physical body for their spirit. We are to learn how to have our spirit, who we really are, to control and train the body we have, to be subject to us and not the spirit being controlled by the body. We (the spirit) are what gives the body life, like a hand gives a glove life. That is happening now and has since Adam and Eve, who were real people and not a myth as some think.
Reason Two: We have come here to gain the experiences that Heavenly Father knows we need that we did not learn during our life in the spirit world.
Reason Three: We are here, with our memory of our former spirit life blocked by a veil of forgetfulness so that this life would be our Final Test. We would be tested in all things with the gift of Free Agency to choose, which all of us were given in the spirit world. Now, here on earth, our Father in Heaven will see how we will choose between good and evil, right and wrong.
All of Heavenly Father’s children need to go through this test.
If someone is killed, that would stop that person from being tested and it would cut short his experience or test here on earth, which would determine his eternal state in the next life. That is why murder is so bad in the sight of God.
When the Lord said that we should not kill, He was talking about taking innocent life for no reason. Once a spirit is born and obtains a body, that is their body and their time.
There is not a second chance to be re-born and start again. There is no such thing as re-incarnation. That is a doctrine of Satan telling you that you can do what you want in this life and that you will have another chance later.
The Lord told us in the Book of Mormon:
Alma 43: 45-47
45 Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.
46 And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.
47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.
The Lord has inspired His Prophet Joseph Smith to write the Articles of Faith of this worldwide church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
In the twelfth Article of Faith he told us how we should treat the government which each of us live under:
Article of Faith 12
12 We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
When it has to do with war, there is a big difference in destroying life while acting under the orders of national sovereign which we are commanded to obey.
Just wantonly killing someone on our own is our own responsibility and we will individually be judged on that act.
When we are ordered by the government, which we are powerless to resist, to kill our enemy, whatever may be wrong will be on the heads of that government.
We have brethren all over the world and under the control of different governments that hold the Melchizedek priesthood that pray to the same God and neither side cannot be completely right or wrong.
God will work it out in His own sovereign way what was right or wrong in the conflict and He will not hold our brothers in arms, which are innocent, responsible for the conflict.
God is in control of everything and only He will be able to judge right and wrong perfectly.
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