If murder is a sin and our government executes criminals, aren't we all guilty of murder?
2007-01-07 08:21:31 · 6 answers · asked by williamsj822000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The government is ran mostly by christians. I'm 100% against the death penalty and i'm atheist. It is one of the most inhumane ways of dying. Stoning would acutally be better than lethal injection.
2007-01-07 08:34:36 · update #1
I do not believe that there should be a death sentence! That is Gods judgment to make.
2007-01-07 08:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death penalty is not murder. The Bible clearly allows for the death penalty (they even had stonings!). The Bible does prohibit "murder" but not "killing." The Greek and Hebrew translations are important there. The Catholic Church essentially prohibited the death penalty relatively recently. But that is more a sign of caving into liberal European pressure than theological purity. Christianity sees the death penalty as a punishement of a murderer--not murder in and of itself. Christianity stands for INNOCENT life--not a murderer's life.
2007-01-07 16:26:49 · answer #2 · answered by YourMom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we are only guilty of sins WE commit ourselves. We are to pay our taxes, "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" If "Caesar" sins with it, thats on him, not you or I. If you gave someone a car, and that person went out drinking and driving and plowed into a school bus and killed the kids, you would not be held accountable for it by God, of course, the lawyers might want to blame you for it but, it was the other persons doing, not yours.
2007-01-07 16:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man, do not take it out on the people. The people of America did not create Bush. Bush should go to the place where the sun don't shine. He is not exactly popular north of the border, where beavers live in igloos with Pamela Anderson and freshly released axe-murderers who sell pot along with American Vietnam draft dodgers in their sixties.
2007-01-07 16:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course not, render unto Cesar,etc...-------I'm against the death penalty, too.
2007-01-07 16:25:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not necessarily. we may be doing all those bad things... but what other choice do we have? if we dont have law and order, this world be outta control. i understand what ya saying... ask God this hard question.
2007-01-07 16:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sharon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋