{"id":147,"date":"2005-07-24T07:56:53","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T06:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=147"},"modified":"2005-07-24T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T06:57:05","slug":"better-to-be-killed-than-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Better to be Killed than to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are called to change ourselves and to show love. We are called to be Christ to others. We are not called to force others to behave in particular ways.<\/p>\n<p>Also, when we believe, life takes a very different context &#8211; life on this planet ceases to be all important as we see what is beyond. We also know a God who gives justice even amongst what seems to be so unfair and unjust. Ultimately justice is that God will judge us fairly &#8211; justice between people in this life takes a different place. Justice in this life is something that we should seek to provide, reflecting God&#8217;s justice.<\/p>\n<p>When we seek our own survival above the survival of others we fall back into the failed way of living, we fall back into a self centred life which doesn&#8217;t look beyond to God&#8217;s provision. Attempts at self survival are doomed &#8211; we can&#8217;t do it &#8211; only God can give us our survival as we give our lives to him.<\/p>\n<p>If we back war, police with guns or any kind of &#8216;self survival over love for our enemies&#8217; then we are reverting to (human) type and we deny Christ&#8217;s provision and Christ&#8217;s message of love. We will continue to be responsible for the circle of violence and for the death of the innocent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are called to change ourselves and to show love. We are called to be Christ to others <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}