telepathy

 I really get sick of people saying "Jesus said anger is the same as murder" or some variation of that sentence whenever the word "murder" ends up used in a sentence.  First of all, Jesus did not say that.  He simply said, in a nutshell, that you don't have any business applauding yourself for not having murdered someone, which lines up with the rest of The Bible.  The social taboo of murder is cross cultural and even if it weren't, God is the one who decreed to Jesus' audience (the descendants of Abraham and Sarah) that they should not murder and should love one another.  They probably did succeed in mastering that, inasmuch as anyone has, before or since, but there are times when a person simply ends up a violent rage and the only thing stopping them from murdering someone is the knowledge of the consequences, i.e.: public scorn, jail time and even death depending on the circumstances.  There are times also when a person might hold back strictly because they know it would grieve God, but, at least in my experience, those times are far outnumbered by the times a person holds back for the lesser reasons.  If you have not murdered, you probably still have sins in your heart, some of them may not be pressing issues that need constant scrutiny, but some of them might be, and even if there is no pressing sin that needs to be constantly battled until it is killed, A) you have no authorship over that and B) you are not exempt from the need of God and the propitiation for your occasional bouts of sin that Jesus The Christ volunteered to be so that we, all mankind, might find reconciliation with Father God and have fellowship with Him at His feet.
But murder and thinking about murder are simply not the same thing.  Murder *begins* in the heart, but it does not begin AND end there.  The seeds of murder are called malice.  Malice is malice.  Murder is murder.  The two words cannot be used interchangeably.  Scripture in some instances might use the two words interchangeably but people in the USA (and probably much of the rest of the world, I'd imagine, although I can't say I know that for a fact) don't talk with the same heavy handedness that The Bible is written with.  The Bible is constantly hammering home a point, in many cases it's hammering home more than one point at the same time.  When James says "You don't have so you murder", he's making an overall point, but he's also making a point just by use of the word "murder".  It is not a light thing to be angry at your brother or sister in Christ.  But not every word people in everyday speech say is meant to be scrutinized and double checked the way The Bible is.  If I say "murder", I mean the unjust taking of one's life.  Murder is not an act of telekinesis.