God wiped out the world and let 8 LIVE, so no.
thou shalt not commit murder.
some people need killing.
G-d knows that.
Acts have consequences.
Christianity isn’t carrying out the sentence. The State is.
It’s always the same song with these people — sympathy for the murderer but none for the victims. How is justice served in not executing these heinous criminals?
Doesn’t matter that the pope is against the death penalty. The long-standing tradition of the Church is that the death penalty is not wrong, if applied justly.
There is nothing immoral about executing murderers, however, I don’t want our government to have the power to execute people. I don’t trust prosecutors with this power. All too often they pick a vulnerable person, ram the case through, and execute him all for the higher glory of their career.
My point is many of these crimes should have been dealt with in a quick easy, efficient manner or you let lawyers and sacred bleeder advocates and anti social workers play the rehab game. I'm injured for life because of some of these evil sob's and it's no fun dealing with pain for the last seventeen years day in and day out. I'll pull the damned switch myself. Let them talk to Jesus. Forgiveness? Yes. But many of these people will kill again ...repeating but it can't be written enough.
Moses said they can flee to the City of refuge. So, they can all move t oSan Francisco and keep on murdering there.
Romans 3
For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
4 for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
I have little trouble with the death penalty, but I would trade my death penalty support with the left for their support of abortion.
In other words, I won’t support the death penalty, if they stop supporting abortion.
As the Indians would say “good trade”. (Dancing With Wolves)
Lincoln ordered the execution of 38 men at one time. The assassin gang (4) later danced on air together. Booth was already dead so missed the gig (jig).
No 25 years of appeals for them.
As the libtards like to point out, the “state” ain’t Christian.
No it’s not. God advised killing those who took lives. That’s His commandment on the issue.
6. Do Not Murder
Dennis Prager
Prager University
It is not murder to kill in battle, to kill in legitimate defence of one's own life or the life of another, or to kill those judged to be truly wicked.
In the entire history of the Church since Jesus Christ, as well as Protestant Churches after 1517, they have never denied the right of civil authorities to implement the death penalty - of course, as long as it is done justly, with great caution, and attention to any mitigating circumstances, and when evidence is without doubt.
I have no problem with execution as a punishment allowed by scripture. The Apostle Paul validates that in Romans 13.
However, I do believe an man innocent of a murder he has been charged with should not be executed.
I want all executions to have the standard of absolute proof and not just “within a reasonable doubt”.
You don’t get do-overs on executions.
I am not talking here about whether there is an argument over the classification of the type of murder, over whether it was in commission of a feloney, etc. The issue for me is simply did Charge Person A commit charged murder A.
Absolute proof is proof that allows for no other possible conclusion to be reached.
>The Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments, prescribes the death penalty as a legitimate tool of God-ordained government.
There’s the central problem with your thesis.
This is not a God-ordained government, and only a dangerously psychotic and likely criminally insane person would think it was.
Murder is what is prohibited, not killing.
Capital punishment, I do believe, is covered clearly in Romans 13:
(ESV)
Submission to the Authorities
13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. 5 Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. 6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. 7 Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
A person who kills another human being willingly does not have the right to live.
An eye for an eye.
The death penalty is not murder; it is justice.