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106: Can Christians Kill People? Answers from Thomas Aquinas [Podcast]

Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast

Dr. Taylor Marshall

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Taylor Marshall Show episode 106 answering the question,

0:04.6

can Christians kill other humans? We're going to look at the book of Genesis, but also

0:10.4

St Thomas Aquinas in the Sumetail O.

0:13.0

Secundi, question 64, in particular, Article 2 and Article 7 on self-defense. It's about to get real.

0:24.0

Howdy and thank you for tuning in the Taylor Marshall Show. This is the

0:35.0

podcast for everyone who wants to create daily habits and learn enough theology

0:39.7

to take their faith to the next level.

0:42.6

My goal this week is to talk to you about the Catholic tradition

0:48.0

of just killing and just war theory. Let's get started.

0:56.0

Well, good morning, good afternoon, and good evening to all of you wherever you are in the world and welcome back to the show.

1:03.2

Today we take on a reader, not a reader, a listener question from a lady named

1:09.8

Lindsay Autumn and Lindsay asked if I could do a podcast on this topic.

1:16.6

She's a listener so shout out to Lindsay.

1:18.8

Thanks so much for recommending this and we're going to handle this question

1:21.9

about Christians killing other people because you

1:24.3

know our Lord Jesus Christ tells us to turn their cheek and there are those in the

1:28.0

Christian tradition who believe that Jesus of Nazareth was a pacifist, 100% pacifist. And so we're going to look at not just the New Testament,

1:37.8

we're going to look at the whole scope of the Bible. We're going to, in particular, look at the Noeic Covenant. This is the covenant that God made with

1:46.0

Noah and this is where biblical scholars and the fathers see the founding of secular government of the civil state.

1:57.1

So we'll see that in Genesis.

1:58.6

And then we'll also jump into the Sumetay Logier,

2:01.5

which I love to do, as I mentioned in the intro.

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