Re: [asa] Creation Care Magazine

From: <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
Date: Thu Dec 27 2007 - 15:39:34 EST

Ok thanks for the reference.  But again your paraphrase was inacurrate.  It was Geisler, not Moreland.  And you changed the quote: "Any man who refuses to protect his wife and children against a violent intruder with the most effective means available to him 
fails them morally."

I think Geislers point is simply to say that if you watch someone murder your family, and you choose to do nothing about it (assuming there is something that you could do about it,) is immoral.


On Thu Dec 27 14:11 , Janice Matchett sent:

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  ~ 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

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 http://www.amazon.com/Life-Death-Debate-Moral-Issues/dp/027593702X

~ Janice

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