Has God Given You the Right to Own a Gun?

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Is the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution a God -given right? Let's be more specific.

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Has God given you the right to own a gun? Now obviously there are no guns in the Bible, so you won't find a verse that says,

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Thou shalt own a gun. Yeah, there's that verse in Luke where Jesus says to buy a sword, but that's not saying you have the right to own a gun.

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Let's look into God's law, where in Exodus 22 -2 we read the following, If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no blood guilt for him.

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So God has given you the right to defend yourself. But defend yourself with what? The word for struck in Hebrew is the verb nekal, which means to smite.

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So when a thief is struck, it does not mean that he was just punched in the face or knocked in the head and accidentally dies.

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The thief was struck so as to be killed, and he could be struck with anything, even a sword or a spear.

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Now, if we gave that law a modern application, we might understand it like this. If a thief is found breaking in and is shot so that he dies, the person who shot him is not guilty of wrongdoing.

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Notice that the passage is not merely about defending one's own life. This is about defending one's property.

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You have a God -given right to defend yourself and your family and what you own.

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If you kill a thief who breaks into your house at night, you're not guilty. And if thieves are known to break in with guns, it's probably a good idea that you own a gun.