Why not listen to him, since he's infallible?
2007-05-25 07:17:36 · 15 answers · asked by razzthedestroyer 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Protestants know that a couple of hail mary's won't stop killers from doing their thing.
2007-05-25 07:23:44 · answer #1 · answered by Captain 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If one supports the death penalty because it is supported in the Old Testament then should that person also support the death penalty for the crimes deserving of the death penalty in the Old Testament?
In the Bible the following crimes deserved the death penalty:
+ Murder (Gen 9:6, Ex 21:12, Numb 35:16-21).
+ Abuse of father or mother (Ex 21:15).
+ Speaking a curse over parents (Ex 21:17).
+ Blasphemy against God (Lev 24:14-16,23).
+ Breaking the Sabbath (Ex 31:14, Numb 15:32-36).
+ Practicing magic (Ex 22:18).
+ Fortune telling and practicing sorcery (Lev 20:27).
+ Religious people who mislead others to fall away (Deut 13:1-5, 18:20).
+ Adultery and fornication (Lev 20:10-12, Deut 22:22).
+ If a woman has intercourse before marriage (Deut 22:20-21).
+ If two people have intercourse when one of them is engaged. (Deut 22:23-24).
+ The daughter of a priest practicing prostitution (Lev 21:9).
+ Rape of someone who is engaged (Deut 22:25).
+ Having intercourse with animals (Ex 22:19).
+ Worshipping idols (Ex 22:20, Lev 20:1-5, Deut 17:2-7).
+ Incest (Lev 20:11-12, 14, 19-21).
+ Homosexuality (Lev 20:13).
+ Kidnapping (Ex 21:16).
+ To bear false testimony at a trial (Deut 19:16, 19).
+ Contempt of court (Deut 17:8-13).
The biblically approved methods of execution in the Old Testament are stoning, burning, using a sword, spear or arrow (Lev 20:27, 21:9, Ex 19:13, 32:27, Numb 25:7-8).
From a Catholic point of view:
Jesus, in John 8:1-11, spares a women guilty of adultery whom the Mosaic Law said should be stoned to death.
If the guilty person's identity and responsibility has been fully determined then non-lethal means to defend and protect the people's safety from the aggressor are more in keeping with the common good and the dignity of the human person.
The Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives.
However in today's modern society, the capability of rendering the offender incapable of doing harm - without definitively taking away from him the possibility of redeeming himself - the cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity are very rare, if not practically non-existent.
With love in Christ.
2007-05-26 20:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The death penalty is murder and not forgiveness. The pope has made the right call as every man has the right to be forgiven even if he can' t be relaesed back into the general population.
I think it's appalling for a so called Christian nation to be doing that act and I am a protestant.
The pope is said to be infaliable but only Christ was that!
2007-05-25 14:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew Payne 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I consider myself to be a Christian, rather that belonging to a denomination, but I believe in the death penalty because God says "THOU SHALL NOT MURDER", not "thou shall not kill" and if somebody has intentionally / maliciously taken a life (or several lives), then it is a just form of punishment. I don't understand why Charles Manson hasn't received it!
BTW...the Pope is JUST A MAN. He bleeds, he burps, he sh****, etc. He is NOT God....he is not infallible.
2007-05-25 14:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Romans 8:28 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the pope is not infallible... birth control.... protecting pedophiles.... women continued to be second class citizens... sounds like the pope lacks both commons sense and a conscience.
2007-05-27 12:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like asking "Why do Christians believe in the divinity of Christ, when Islam says he was just a man".
Protestants don't believe in organized religion as defined by the Catholic Church. They don't believe that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, so what he says is not regarded as Canon, and he is not considered "infallible".
Also, depending on which version of the Bible you read, the commandment is not "Thou shalt not kill", but "Thou shalt not murder". Exacting justice is not murder. Killing in self-defense, in just cause, is not murder. Conducting war, in a just cause, is not murder, either.
2007-05-25 14:59:28 · answer #6 · answered by LT Dan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No Catholic ever said the Pope is infallible. Why do you?
2007-05-25 14:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
They should because the Pope is right on this issue.
2007-05-25 14:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they don't follow the catholic church's teachings so therefore they don't follow anything the pope says. and the pope isn't perfect. I don't support it at all.
2007-05-25 14:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The bible says eye for an eye, so the pope is wrong.
Catholics don't follow the bible. That's why there are protestants.
2007-05-25 14:20:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋