Please explain why that is acceptable...does not captial punishment qualitfy to be covered by the law... "Thou shall not kill"? Wouldn't advocates for Captial Punishment then be guilty of breaking one of the very Laws they profess to follow?
2007-03-21 04:44:50 · 16 answers · asked by buttercup 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes you are absolutely entirely correct.
Not everyone believes in the 10 commandments and not everyone is forgiving. Jesus challenges us to be that way.
Most people want revenge at times and some examples are; when driving and someone is going slow, when someone gossips about us and we gossip about them, when someone hits us and we hit them (double) back, when we sue someone because we put a cup of hot coffee in our laps when driving, when the store cheats us for a five cent error and we don't return the $5 advantage to us when THEY make a mistake, etc.
For Society and the lawmakers, they sometimes use God's gift of life and use it opposite. The intent is to send a message to anyone else that may go against them and the law and that they hold the power to take someone's life. The other reason is prisioners are costly for the budget. Death sentences are cheaper.
So cheap wins! But God holds the value of all human beings as priceless. Until we hold others as valuable we will not see peace because the world learns from example.
Jesus is my example of forgiveness and I will try to keep that in my heart.
2007-03-21 05:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by hot wheels 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah... not really. Read where God gives Israel those laws. Not long afterwards, God himself tells Moses to go to another nation and kill everyone and everything except the virgins. Plus, all of the other laws laid out in the Old Test shows God doesn't mind Capital Punishment at all. Besides, Capital Punishment is a form of Punishment whereas that commandment is actually "thou shalt not murder". If it were "kill", then anyone who ever bought meat at the market would be held accountable for the animals death.
2007-03-21 05:08:21 · answer #2 · answered by riverstorm13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reading some answers, I'm getting the same Christian "I interpret the Bible in anyway that suits with my lifestyle" argument. I understand your question though and it makes sense. Some argue that justifiable killing is okay. Others say that in the OT the death penalty was advocated. I agree with another answer though that the Ten Commandments survived, the others didn't, thus it should be "turn the other cheek" not "eye for an eye". It is an anomaly, I'll grant you that. I'm an advocate of the death penalty. I however am not a Christian and I only follow the Ten Commandments in the sense that I think they are a good code to live by, seeing as how the applicable ones are morality "rights".
2007-03-21 04:52:13 · answer #3 · answered by eastchic2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically, the TC condemns murder, but the rest of Jewish law books condone public captial punishment. So this argument is worthless. HOWEVER, Jesus told his followers to turn the other cheek, which would have eliminated the 'eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth' law any ways.
Matt5:24
2007-03-21 04:48:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, Not really. I would refer you to the book of Leviticus chapter 20 which prescribes punishments for sin. The commandment you are refering to is better translated as "Thou Shall Not Commit Murder".
Taking a life in the course of war or carrying out the punishment for a crime is not considered murder. It is considered justice/self defense.
2007-03-21 05:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a word, no.
The Commandment does not include justifiable killings - such as killing in self-defense and killing as punishment for crime. After all, throughout the books of the Old Testament, the law prescribes death as punishment for many things.
2007-03-21 04:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word for kill in Deuteronomy in Hebrew is murder. So the commandment reads thou shalt not murder. Murder is differnt than capital punishment. Capital punishment brings justice- it is taking the life of someone who illegaly ends the life of another.
2007-03-21 04:50:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of you would be hard-pressed to teach God antagonistic capital punishment. have you ever examine the Bible? you relatively might desire to, in case you assume the commandment "thou shalt not kill" applies to capital punishment. At any value, God ordains human government and fees government with the job of transforming into regulations and punishing incorrect-doers. i might in no way vote for a candidate totally in this venture interior the 1st place.
2016-11-27 19:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by chitty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very acceptable and christians should line up to throw the switch. Executing a murder is not killing. What they do is evil. And God Himself is for the death penelty. Read Numbers 35:16. The muderer is worthey of death.
2007-03-21 05:20:26 · answer #9 · answered by dispesational7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exodus 22:2-3 Says that self defense killing (at night) is justifiable and not murder. Murder is different than capital punishment, I agree with everyone here...
2007-03-21 04:54:42 · answer #10 · answered by Clamps 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋