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| Q: | In a recent response to a queston of torture, the answer was that the Bible does not deal directly with the issue. The response finished with a paragraph asking the questioner to balance the welfare of ten million innocent people against the civil rights of a terrorist. 1. Is torture being presented as an adiaphoron? 2. Is the Christian pragmatic or idealistic? 3. What is an innocent person? | ||||||||
| A: | 1. The question has already been answered three times: the Bible does not address the issue. 2. Neither, exclusively. He is guided by God's law where it makes a statement. In other cases, he may use his judgment and both idealism and pragmatism may be factors. Your question is not strictly relevant to the issue, because we are not talking about the standards of Christian sanctification or what an individual Christian should do. We are talking about the standards for government action. The government pragmatically allows many things that do not meet the standards of sanctification. For example, permitting divorce for unscriptural reasons. The Bible does not set a standard or provide a rule book for the U.S. government on this issue. 3. A person who has not done anything to provoke the attack; for example, a Muslim riding on a London subway on his way to a mosque in London, when the bomb goes off. | ||||||||
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