Posted on 03/13/2020 11:18:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” (Ecclesiastes 8:11, New King James Version).
The other side of that coin states: How you be pro-abortion and be against capital punishment?
My first thought was, what the heck?!?
What junior rocket scientist would even question this. It's a question of innocence versus guilt isn't it? You kill a man and we kill you back. You kill an unborn, we still should kill you back. And no, I didn't read this, why should I?
As I was once corrected, the actual quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson (and made all the more appropriate by the correction) is:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
Never more true than it is today...
Check the Bible, plenty of retribution there.
For sure it does! Spells out many of the death penalty crimes in Leviticus!
And make attribution?
Thete is no comparison between killing an innocent baby for the sake of convenience and the execution of a particularly heinous criminal who has been accorded extensive protections of due process and been ajudicated deserving of the death penalty.
What is the baby’s crime? Causing syretch marks? Prompting a hiatus in the mother’s career plans or party schedule?
EASY!!! One is INNOCENT and one is GUILTY of a SERIOUS CRIME!
Thank you for this post. I’m Catholic and never had Rom. 13:4 explained to me. It all makes sense now. Even at 58, I am still learning.
Because the Word of God endorses it.
Genesis 9.6 and Romans 13 are very specific on the subject.
What is the new testament scripture that appears to stand against it?
The first Verse that came to my mind is St. Paul’s letter to the Romans regarding the power given to the government by God:
“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, 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.”
- Romans 13:3-4
i dont think the bible is understood without the inner understanding given by the Holy Spirit.. without, there are what seems to be, contradictions .
did you ever text someone and they took all your words in the
wrong direction? the mind translates
Exactly. Capital punishment exists to respect the lives of the INNOCENT. Jesus had plenty of opportunity to rail against capital punishment, but he didn't, even though he was an innocent victim of capital punishment himself.
Though I pray that God leads me in every facet of my life, my opposition to abortion does not rest on religious grounds.
My very hard core stance originated in the first ultrasound taken of my first child, my son. He was as alive at 7 weeks gestation as he is today. Killing him then would have removed him from our world as surely as killing him now.
There is no argument that justifies the systematic taking of lives. There is no argument that justifies the assassination of children. And that is EXACTLY what abortion is. The woman literally pays someone to kill her undesired offspring. It is murder, it is assassination. It is wrong, it is unjust, and it is amoral.
Good grief. Line up the murderers. Show us the crimes, and many of us could push the button easily. For those of you so called Christians who can’t tell the difference between innocent life, taking innocent life, murder, punishment, and abortion, you should love contemporary society. The only ones dying are crime victims and the unborn.
Without capital punishment, Jesus would not have been sent to the cross. The Lamb of God would not have been sacrificed for the sins of the world. In that case, God used it as a tool to save the world.
However, there are many places in scripture that detail God’s view of evildoers and His judgements upon them, including death.
Do you see that verse as vindicating capital punishment, or opposing it???
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