Do You Feel That People Who Commit Violent Crimes Are Irredeemable? Or Do You Feel That They Can Change??

Question

This is part 3 of the Capital Punishment questions I've been asking today. If you would like to answer the others, I value your opinion.

Please elaborate. These are your opinions, and all are equally valid.

Thank You.

Good to see you again, Kingreef.


Thanks to all of you for your time. I appreciate it.

Answer 1

Everyone of us has the right to change.. One must not deprive herself/himself for changes. GOD is so forgiving that whatever sin we commited, HE is always forgiving and will never ever forsake us. We must only sincerely REPENT from our sins...

Answer 2

First for a short analysis, i feel ashamed and guilty for the small bad thing i did some time back ( it happens for lot of times )., also try to analyse why did i do that. I have not committed an big crime or bad thing which affected others worse. I have a doubht that, i will have the same feeling if a bigger crime committed. Apart from that if i did that crime for a Revenge, initially i should feel happy for the crime committed, may be maybe may be i will feel guilty or ashamed after some time.
so i feel we should take a clear survey with the persons who committed voilent crimes and then amend the laws if required. More over the capital punishments should not be taken off, but should be executed after two/ three years of Jail ( in occordance to the survey where we could analyse when the person feels for the crime he did ) and then avoid capital punishment by his conduct but jailed for a more period.

oh oh, as i start analysing more, oh god this subject seems tooooooooo big to give my opinion......... coz i have conflicts about each points i think. needs a deep study.

Answer 3

isnt it unusual Moses, David and Paul all commit murder and all found forgiven...keep in mind however God did not want David to build His temple for prayer and worship because David was a man of war

violent crimes are indeed awful, God said it was as if Abel's blood was screaming from the gound about what Cain did

I have had at least three people from Vietnam and other situations ask if they can ever be forgiven because they shot someone and the Bible says clearly

"The blood of Jesus speaks better than the blood of Abel" in Hebrews.. The screams of injustice and the ugliness of the act might inddeed be true... but the mercy in Jesus is deeper and wider...

and just as Paul was killing Christians as a Pharisee, God made him a trphy of mercy, a billboard as it were that he can forgive 'the chief of sinners' and make him a very special instrument of grace

Jesus did talk about an unforgivable sin... and clearly everything else is forgivable...and Jesus explicitly said ALL OTHER SINS CAN BE FORGIVEN violent ugly and evil though it may be... but every sin that isnt forgiven before you die becomes an unforgivable sin if not dealt with in life...don't wait today is the day of salvation.... today is the opportunity for God to use the guilt as a way to move you into his mercy and grace through Jesus work on the cross

Answer 4

Yes, I think they can change.

But I still think they should pay the penalty. If I decide to steal my neighbor's car, I can give it back and apologize, and offer to make payment. If I decide to kill someone, there is no return or payment that will restore the person to life. There is no undoing a rape, a violent robbery, an assault.

I think they can and should change, but their reward for changing must be intrinsic if it is to be during this lifetime. I would pray for their souls, that they might be rewarded for their change in the hereafter.

I support rule of law. If the law says life imprisonment, and the criminal knows that is the penalty and commits the crime anyway, he should get life imprisonment. If the penalty is execution and the criminal knows of this, he should get what is proscribed.

Answer 5

All things through God are possible. But I think it highly improbable because someone who is so evil hearted as to commit violent crimes will probably never be redeemed because they do not see things the way a normal person would. They see people as nothing more than cattle, expendable science projects that they can work on while perfecting their technique for whatever crime they commit.

Answer 6

I think it depends on the individual and on the crime committed.
I am against any capital punishment tough.

For people that committed horrible crimes like serial killers, those evil child molesters or authors (behind horrible crimes) like that Manson monster: a life sentence of forced very hard labor, with no reward no privileges until they die of natural cause or they can choose to be executed themselves.

I don't believe these people are redeemable at all. maybe I am wrong, but that's what I think!

This execution thing is a very touchy subject.

Answer 7

It depends on the violent crime, actually.

Crimes of passion, in the heat of the moment, without forethought - Yes, I think these people can change. They didn't mean for it to happen, they just lost control for a moment and are probably feeling guilty.

Premediated murder? No. These crimes take though, planning, and the person knows what they are doing is wrong. I don't think if you can sit and plan a murder you have the good will to change.

Answer 8

Everyone is a human being, even those that commit the most heinous crimes. Sometimes these people need to be kept out of society, for society's and their own sakes. But I feel each human being is worthy and if they want to change, they can.

I knew a murderer once, a woman who murdered a man who was abusing her son. She was a kind and broken hearted person. I felt great sympathy for her. She shed an ocean of tears every day of her life.

Answer 9

Mr. Duchovny,
"Do You Feel That People Who Commit Violent Crimes Are Irredeemable?"
In a spiritual sense, no. They are as redeemable as I am.

In a worldly sense, I think that they are to be kept away from doing harm to any, whether in the public, or in the prisons. Prisoners that execute prisoners should be executed as well.

EDIT: Same here.

Answer 10

People who commit violent crimes do it because they are afraid.

Frightened people make bad choices. Remember, we have all done it at one point or other in our lives. Maybe not murder or assault but nasty and hateful.

The intent is the same even if we were in control enough to not let things get out of hand.

All people are basically good and try to be loving. Some have had situations in their lives that scared them so badly that they are constantly living in a state of fear. This state can make some very poor choices seem logical, or even make them appear as the only possible option.

In retrospect this is always seen as untrue, but to the frightened mind logic is not always available.

I understand your views about God and I respect them. The events of my life led me to a different conclusion. All of my former doubts about God have been answered. My God makes no mistakes.

She/he makes no bad people. Sometimes they make negative choices, but at there core they all want to give and receive love.

There is nothing bad about that.

Love and blessings Spooky.

Your brother Don

Answer 11

Nobody can really understand what occurs in another human being's mind. But Life belongs to God alone. No human is ever authorised to end a life, no matter what the Torah might say about shedding blood and eye for an eye. Human morality can no more accept that kind of thing as truth than it can accept a literal 'seven days of creation'.