What is your opinion about Double Jeopardy?

Question

It has been bothering me for quite some time. How is it possible that a person who is guilty of say murder, and have been acquited then at a later stage be found guilty but cannot be tried again. The Bible is very clear on this in that it say "The wages of Sin is Death" So, the Lord will forgive the sinner, He loves the sinner but hates the sin. For what happened with the consequance? If this person is then free what happened with his concious and where does he then pay for his wrong? I want to know WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CONSEQUANCE AND DO YOU THINK THAT THE LORD WILL FOGIVE SUCH A PERSON IF THERE IS STILL PUNISHMENT OUTSTANDING.ACCIRDUBG TO THE ABOVE SCRIPTURE THERE IS NO FORGIVENESS FOR SUCH A PERSON UNLESS HE GOES BACK AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HE IS GUILTY AND SEEK PUNISHMENT, THEN THE LORD CAN FORGIVE HIM FOR HE HAS THEN BEEN PUNISHED HERE ON EARTH AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE PUNISHMENT (HELL) FOR SUCH A PERSON. PLEASE HELP FOR I NEED TO KNOW THE FACTS AND NOT MERELY OPINIONS.

Answer 1

The law of man and the law of God are not the same.
The penalty on the law of man on civil law, criminal law or any law of man imposed by the govbernment is not the same punishment given by God to the sinners against God.

On the law of man Double Jeopardy means - you can no longer be tried on the offense where you have been declared guilty for the same offense which was committed by you in the same place and in the same time,from the same person and the same offense.

In God punishing the sinner, it is not the same as in the law of man.
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Answer 2

Double Jeopardy was a very neccessary law 800 years ago to prevent abuse from the King's prosecutor.
However there has been a lot of water under the bridge since then and today a prosecutor does not have the arbitrary power to send someone for trial.
Criminal trials are very public affairs and if a prosecutor got a reputation for hounding apparently innocent people he'd either be voted out of office or otherwise removed for poltical reasons in short time.
Why should we tolerate a system where if a jury finds someone guilty that decision, subject to an appeal, might be wrong, but if they find someone not guilty, that decision cannot be wrong????

Answer 3

Do you think that sitting in a jail matches up with divine sin?
Earthly justice doesn't match up with divine justice; they are two completely different things.

Double Jeopardy only counts in ONE instance in the Bible; If you accept Christ, His life is given to you, and the punishment He bore for you is placed over you.
So when you get to heaven, the penalty for your sin is null and void by the Double Jeopardy rule - so you are no longer condemmed to hell.

This has NOTHING TO DO with a jail cell on earth.
"The wages of Sin is DEATH"
Sin= murder, slander, gossip, envy, malice, lust, hatred of fellow humans, the occult (including horoscopes), adultery, debauchery, drunkenness, stealing, lying (and that means ANYTHING that isn't 100% truth). So I'd say we're all screwed.
And just to put icing on the cake;
James 4:17 "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."

So every time you go 2 over the speed limit, you better turn yourself in at the nearest police station to be booked...
Sounds... well, wrong.

Sin is not the action. Sin is the state of being. One of the words translated as "sin" is about a bias, like in lawn bowls. Always going off the line. This is what we are all like, and this is what hell is punishment for. God is offering an olive branch to bridge this gap, and restore the rift.

The rest is about building on that restoration. That is where accepting the consequences and confessing for sins comes in.

BUT ONCE SAVED IT HAS NO EFFECT ON ETERNAL SALVATION.

Romans 9:38-39
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
That includes what we do after we are bound to that love.

Answer 4

Double jeopardy prevents abuse at the hands of the judicial system. During the colonial era, if the government wanted you out of the way, all they had to do was keep trying the same charges until they found a jury willing to convict. You always have to look at every law from the negative angle - how can it be abused? Yes, we would be able to convict a bunch of criminals who managed to get off the first time around. But we would also end up with many, many innocents who were incarcerated awaiting multiple trials, and who end up receiving convictions as soon as jury is willing to convict.

Answer 5

It is a check to prevent government going after innocent people repeatedly. It sucks that guilty people get to walk, but I think (out of ignorance of facts) that the OJ case is a rarity and should not be used as an example to do away with the laws on double jeopardy.

Answer 6

Well, your question was quite incoherant, so I didn't get much out of it. I think you're asking why we must follow a government rule that contradicts the bible.

Here is why.

"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer. Therefore, it is necessary to submit to the authorities, not only because of possible punishment but also because of conscience.

This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor."

Romans 13:1-7

So the Bible says to do what the government says, even when it contradicts the Bible. All of our leaders and members of the judiciary were chosen by God, an arguing with the government is a sin.

Answer 7

I thought if new and convincing evidence is brought forward the case could be re-opened...

Earthy punishment/consequences have nothing to do with Divine Justice, except maybe the example parallel.

In an earthly court, the lawyer argues in your behalf. In the courts of Heaven, your advocate is Jesus (if you want Him) and He simply said, "Yes, Father, this man is guilty and he admits it, but I will pay for His crime. Take me to the cross."

Answer 8

I think it should work the same way it does if definitive evidence is found of a persons innocence. A new trial can be ordered for people found guilty previously.

Answer 9

God's grace is deeper than justice. As a human, we want justice, we want vengeance. Someone murders a loved one and we want that person to pay for our pain. We want them to suffer as we will suffer because of our loss.

Have you examined that verse, "for the wages of sin is death"? Sin is anything bad for your body, mind and/or soul. Do something bad for your body - like drink alcohol continuously - and you will earn the "wage" of death. You will die of liver disease, or in a car accident while driving drunk, from lung cancer, or whatever. That is what that verse means.

God may forgive you for that sin, but you will still die from it. A murderer may or may not receive punishment in this life, but God will judge him after he dies. God's justice has no correlation to man's law. God's grace is deeper than man's justice, no matter which way it goes.

Answer 10

You can not be retried for the same crime. It is that simple. If you have been found guilty or not there are appea; processes. If you can not be charged with that offence over again how can you say that the person was later proved guilty. You are not making sense.

AND SHOUTING DOES NOT MAKE YOU MORE SENSIBLE!!!