God allows us to kill only certain things. Yes to kill, to commit murder of certain things in our lives.
We read here in Colossians 3:
[5]So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).
[6]It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will),
[8]But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips!
[9]Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices,
Certain things have to die in us and for them to die we have to kill them or deprive them of power. No excuses on this one or any second guessing.

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