Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

At 01:44 PM 12/27/2007, drsyme@cablespeed.com wrote:

>Interestingly enough Janice was paraphrasing not JP Moreland but Ron
>Rhodes who misquoted Moreland: "Theologians J. P. Moreland and
>Norman Geisler say that "to permit murder when one could have
>prevented it is morally wrong. To allow a rape when one could have
>hindered it is an evil. To watch an act of cruelty to children
>without trying to intervene is morally inexcusable. In brief, not
>resisting evil is an evil of omission, and an evil of omission can
>be just as evil as an evil of commission. Any man who refuses to
>protect his wife and children against a violent intruder fails them
>morally." He gives no
>reference.
><http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/qselfdefense.html>http://home.earthlink.net/~ronrhodes/qselfdefense.html
>~ Jack

@ Not so.

I just did a search and found the page from where I originally saw
the quote - it was on the "Karate for Christ" page :) I just forgot
that Geisler was involved with writing that book, also:
http://www.karateforchrist.ca/EssEades.pdf

"The Life and Death Debate", co-authors J.P. Moreland and Norman Geisler wrote:

"To permit murder when one could have prevented it is morally wrong.
To allow a rape when one could have hindered it is an evil. To watch
an act of cruelty to children without trying to intervene is morally
inexcusable. In brief, not resisting evil is an omission, and an evil
of omission can be just as evil as an evil of commission. Any man who
refuses to protect his wife and children against a violent intruder
fails them morally" (Moreland & Geisler; P. 134, 135).
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Debate-Moral-Issues/dp/027593702X

~ Janice

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Received on Thu Dec 27 14:12:40 2007