Why People Kill

     Killing another person is the second greatest sin that one can do. It seems like it would be the worst, but there is a greater sin! What could be worse than killing? What could be worse than killing God? Taking His death as without purpose. Jesus was born to die, and to reject his reason for dying is the utmost sin!
     I looked for scripture which revealed Jesus's purpose in life. There are many things which he purposed. However, the best verse for Jesus's purpose doesn't have the word "purpose" in it! John 3:16 which everyone should be able to at least misquote:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

    Jesus's purpose was to be sacrificed, not in vain, but for a reason: that the world (anyone and everyone) not perish. Why would God do that to his only Son? Because he so loves everyone! Jesus's purpose was dying so that mankind could, if he chooses, live forever. Thus, God gifted His only Son to die in each of our places. Because mankind deserves to die because of sin, and Jesus was without sin, his purpose was to be the vicarious sacrifice because men are wicked. John 3:16 is the epitome of grace: getting a gift undeservedly!
     Jesus could have suspended the plot to kill him at any time. In his agony, Jesus asked that God take his "cup" from him, and obviously pass it along to someone else (Mark 14:36). We know what that "cup" was because the psalmist defined it thousands of years before:

Psalm 116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

     The "cup" is salvation.  Jesus's purpose was to be the cup of salvation:

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

     Jesus was born to die so that mankind could be saved. That is the purpose of Jesus. Joseph knew that since ever since the angel appeared to him:

Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

     It was revealed to Joseph the purpose of Jesus. Jesus was to be the "cup" or the Way to salvation. The worst sin of all is rejecting Jesus's purpose - his death for each of us. If Jesus's purpose for living is rejected, his purpose for dying is as well. When Jesus died his last breath released his spirit from his dead flesh:

Mark 15:37 And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

     Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when he was baptized by John. When he died, Jesus gave up the "ghost". By experiencing death, the King James translators rightfully transformed the Spirit of God into the Ghost of Jesus - the Holy Ghost -  which is the disembodied Spirit of Jesus. There is not a Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost but God's Spirit who experienced death on the cross as Jesus. Jesus gave up his soul for mankind, taking away all sins of everyone on the journey to Sheol to dump them on Satan to whom they belonged! (Ephes 4:8-10 & 1 Pet 3:18-20). Some believe that Jesus suffered in Hell, but it makes more sense that he suffered in the world when he cried out to his Father for seemingly forsaking him (Mat 27:46). Of course, God never leaves nor forsakes anyone (Heb 13:5).
     Jesus didn't go to Hell to suffer but to deliver our sins in person! From the time Jesus agonized about his purpose until he gave up the  Ghost, was his life's purpose. Therefore, the greatest sin is rejecting Jesus's purpose - his transition from the Son of Man to Holy Ghost by dying. The unpardonable sin is rejection of Jesus's purpose which is called "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost" (Mat 12:31).
     That sin was not a new one. There was a command thousands of years before:

Exod 3:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

     That is the Third Commandment, albeit one through four are all ways to love God which is The Greatest Commandment. They are how to revere God. The Third Commandment is not to be irreverent - taking His Name (Jesus) in vain. Remembering that Jesus's purpose was to die for mankind, that commandment is to not to belittle Jesus's purpose - that Jesus death was to no avail; that his death was not saving; that he gave up his Ghost for naught! That is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which is the unpardonable sin. Examine the consequences of taking the Lord's Name in vain: those will be guilty! Guilty of blasphemy it seems.
     Not accepting Jesus's gift - his "cup" is the greatest sin! If the cup of salvation is received and is without utility (never drank from), it is just as crucifying (killing) Jesus all over again!

Heb 6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

    What is worse than killing God once is killing God again - taking His cup and not drinking from it. That is being born-again but eventually becoming unwilling to obey. Obedience is how love is operationalized (John 14:15). Those who understand Jesus's purpose, but fail to show gratitude, kill the Lord a second time if they endeavor to be born-again, again! Of course that can't happen, and the iniquitous person becomes reprobate. It seems that those who are born-again but fail to obey kill their own souls forever! Why would they do that? Because temporal pleasure and pride is more important than God's will. It is easy to love oneself, but difficult to be meek and hard to love others. That's why people kill God by living such that the Lord agonizes over those who minimize Him.
     People kill for their god. That is the other god in God's face (The First Commandment). We were created in the image of God; we worship our own "faces" of selves. (The Hebrew word is transliterated better as "face" rather than "before.)
     People "kill" God because of themselves. People kill others because of themselves! David killed Uriah, Bathsheba's husband, because of lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh. The Jews killed Jesus out of pride. He claimed to be God, and with their limited knowledge, refused to believe it (they knew not what they do)! People kill other people because of those three things: (1) lust of the eyes, (2) lust of the flesh, and (3) the pride of life (1 John 2:16) - all sins of Adam.
     Adam killed God. His sin brought agony to God. Adam became "as god" in God's face. Of course the Lord didn't die right then, but Adam finally killed him through mankind. We all vicariously killed Jesus because  the time was not ready for Adam to do that himself. God died because of Adam!

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

     Adam's purpose was to love and honor God (dress and keep Him). Because of sin, Jesus died. Sin killed God! People kill because they pleasure themselves. Hating others is murderous (1 John 3:15). People kill because they have hatred. Hatred for others is merely loving ourselves more! We are to love others as much as we do ourselves. We don't! That's just too hard to do. People kill because they are hateful and unloving of others. God's creatures get in the way of our self-god. God died because we love ourselves so much. Others die because we love ourselves so much! People kill because they have not love!
     People kill to be emancipated from God because rather than looking forward to the prize, they fear the punishment. Just as I said when a child, "I wish Daddy was dead so that I can do what I want to do," sinners think the same way. How childish!