To Kill, Murder, Murderer
See also: Massacre of the Holy Innocents.
Taking life is a sin, except when required by the duty of state (e.g., the duty of a soldier). Urging someone else to commit murder can make one more guilty than the murderer himself.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
Killing
- "You shall not kill".[1]
- Do not judge where a judgment has already been made. In the other life, one will see in Heaven many galley slaves, many who have killed and stolen, and one will see in Hell many who seem to have been stolen from or killed because in reality they were the true thieves of others' Peace, honesty, trust, the real murderers of a Heart: the pseudo-victims.[2]
- Why do you seek to kill me? And you look for excuses to do it. And you blame me for faults that are not true.[3]
- One can kill brothers in many ways, with a weapon or by word, or by a bad will.[4]
- He who is a homicide because he is ordered or forced to be, … does not have any crime on his Conscience or only the relative crime of killing one of his fellow men, but he who kills an innocent without orders and without being forced, or cooperates in his murder, goes before God with the horrible face of Cain.[5]
Being killed
Killing oneself
See also: suicide.
- It is not as if I wanted to kill myself, but it is only to obey the voice of my Father who tells me: "Go. It is time".[8]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
- "You shall not murder".[9]
- The murder of Abel.[10]
- Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.[11]
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- The fifth commandment: Respect for human life.[12]
- Respect for the dignity of persons.[13]
- The safeguarding of Peace.[14]