Imagine two women; we will call the first Jill and the other Wendy. Tomorrow Jill gets so upset with Wendy she wants to kill her.

Since Jill knows she cannot personally murder someone (Rom. 13:9), she contacts a “hit man” to kill Wendy. Jill believes God will understand and accept her decision because the Bible never says “Thou shall not hire someone to commit murder for you.”

If the preceding paragraph sounds absolutely absurd and wrong, congratulations. Jill’s reasoning is wrong. The lack of a specific prohibition in the Bible does not mean something is right.

The next time someone tries to justify some idea or practice based on the claim that “the Bible does not specifically prohibit it,” remember this silly example about Wendy and Jill.