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To: BlatherNaut
If the death penalty was just some "rule" people invented, it might be okay to change it, but it was GOD who set that up - He said repeatedly:

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man.

Exodus 21:12
"Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17-22
"Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death. Anyone who takes the life of someone’s animal must make restitution—life for life. Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The one who has inflicted the injury must suffer the same injury. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a human being is to be put to death. You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the Lord your God.’

Numbers 35:33
"'Do not pollute the land where you are. Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood has been shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Deuteronomy 5:17
"You shall not murder.

8 posted on 10/25/2014 8:54:19 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

All well and good.

“Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.”

“Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.”

And Christ gave us :

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
Then Peter came and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his slaves.…


10 posted on 10/25/2014 9:11:51 PM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: boatbums

Which goes to show once again that this pope is not Christian and oddly enough, not Catholic. He is becoming the anti-pope.


18 posted on 10/26/2014 4:38:03 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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