So, an unborn baby’s life is equal to a convicted felon’s life? Do you people listen to yourselves?
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Glad you pointed that out. Those are things God has done. We are not God, they are not our creation. Thou shalt not kill. Seems pretty easy to understand.
If there us a place in the Bible where it implicity states killing is ok. I really want to read it.
“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind” Genesis 9:6 NIV
I dont understand how than means its ok to kill people for breaking the law. It doesnt exactly state who can do it. That feels like a stretch to me to go from shed blood to kill.
We arent talking about jaywalking. We are talking about murderers.
Just FYI - The proper translation is "Thou shalt not murder' (not 'kill').
There is a time for killing (the guilty), but never for murdering (the innocent).
Thanks for adding that, I deleted mine as soon as I saw someone else put the correct translation. Thou shalt not kill is entirely ambiguous, and people love to quote that, especially the anti capital punishment types. I will add though if there was an accidental death, this invoked the cities of refuge use. This protected the one who accidentally killed another, but it protected the relatives of the slain ones as well. It kept them from becoming murders while seeking revenge for the one lost.
In the King James version, "kill" equates to "murder" and "smote" equates to "manslaughter." In some cases, "smote" is a bad thing, but in other cases, it equates to "justifiable homicide."
Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy all call for capital punishment for various crimes including murder, rape, kidnapping, and adultery.
https://www.gotquestions.org/death-penalty.html
In that very link it says God deomstrates his love for us by not condeming us. How does it make sense for us to condem each other? Even after Jesus has taught us to love one another?
Did you read any of the verses linked in the article?
God gave mankind the authority to carry out capital punishment for the most evil crimes. That's confirmed actually from Genesis all the way through Romans in the New Testament.
There are 2 types of condemnation. There's condemnation here on the Earth by human governments when people commit crimes. But there's also eternal condemnation for sinners, which by the way is every person. The Gospel message is that while we are all sinners, if we confess our sins, ask for forgiveness, accept Jesus' death on the cross as payment for our sins, and believe in His resurrection from the grave then God forgives us and spares us from eternity in hell and instead we get to join Him in heaven.
Now the murderer sitting on death row may accept Jesus, or he may not, and that determines his eternal destiny. In either case he still receives capital punishment here on Earth by the government, and God finds no fault in the government for carrying it out. That's justice.
You can't have a theology that's all love and no wrath. In that case, anyone can live however they please and there's no penalties. Likewise, you can't have a theology that's all wrath and no love, because then you end up like the Pharisees with their hundreds of rules for living and no grace. There has to be a balance, because God shows a balance between the two. But in that balance, God is clear and unwavering: capital punishment is just and appropriate for the most evil crimes.
If you want a real-world example of why we need the death penalty look at Anders Breivik in Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik He detonated a van in Oslo killing 8 people and then dressed like a police officer to take a ferry to an island where there was a camp for liberal youth where he spent over an hour gunning down 69 kids. 319 people were injured. Some of the kids actually ran toward him thinking he was a police officer there to help them. He was given Norway's maximum sentence of 21 years in prison with the possibility of parole after 10 years. This man killed 77 people because he didn't like their politics, and his actions affected the lives of all of his victims' friends and family. He has shown no remorse for what he has done. And while he did not get paroled after 10 years, he will be a free man around the age of 55 to live out the rest of his life.
I believe men such as this should receive the death penalty, and it would be acceptable to God. But Norway abolished that punishment.
Romans - Speaking about government
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.