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To: Craftmore

God forgave David for that little plot to off Uriah. He could have easily sent a priest with a sword. As it turned out David did suffer, but didn’t die for it.

Carrying this over to what governments in gentile society ought to do is an area that the bible does not touch on very much. My read for what it is worth is that capital punishment is permissible and expected to be normative for certain crimes, but not an absolute in-every-case requirement. Others differ and this gets into gnatty areas that are beyond my scope. The country would do well to have a mass remembering of God and that would weigh almost infinitely more than details of civil discipline.


278 posted on 05/19/2013 8:47:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Carrying this over to what governments in gentile society ought to do is an area that the bible does not touch on very much. My read for what it is worth is that capital punishment is permissible and expected to be normative for certain crimes, but not an absolute in-every-case requirement. Others differ and this gets into gnatty areas that are beyond my scope. The country would do well to have a mass remembering of God and that would weigh almost infinitely more than details of civil discipline.

Blood is required; if you recall the infant son died, that was the penalty.
297 posted on 05/19/2013 9:20:19 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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