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Greg,
I suppose you can create meaning that applies to yourself and anyone who chooses to follow your teaching. In the world which we currently share, Murder means something other then killing.

Murder, under common-law jurisdiction, is the unlawful killing of another human being. Execution is the lawful killing of a human being for unlawful transgression. Under common-law, execution is undertaken by the branches of justice after careful deliberation and legal procedure. These procedures are followed so as to minimize the chances of executing anyone in error.

While killing, murdering, , warring, executing, assassinating, and slaughtering all are verbs whose result is the death of human beings, they have nuances of meaning which indicate distinctions. It is this error in distinction between killing and murder which has lead to confusion regarding the commandment given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Some translators take the Hebrew words “al tirzach”, which means “Thou shall not murder” and translate it to “Thou shall not kill”, which would, in Hebrew, be written “al ta’arog”. A commandment to not kill would negate killing anything at all and the Jews would have lived like Tibetan Buddhist Monks who take care to remove all the bugs from the ground before digging for a foundation. Clearly, the Bible has many instances in which killing was considered the correct action, not the least of which were killing for food.