It’s not that I think it’s an unfair comparison, it’s two different concepts...
One has hundreds of years of law going back to common English law and before and the other is a biblical text not updated in 2,000 years...nor should it...
Apples and oranges...
This is the post I was responding to from post 38 ...
The Bible clearly supports the death penalty
The concept is that and institution (death penalty) should be allowed because the Bible supports it. That's all. My point is that if Biblical support is the yardstick, then we can measure other things with that yardstick.
Yes! I am perfectly willing to concede that the western legal tradition, among other things, have allowed us to improve on the moral framework laid out in the Bible.