I keep seeing Christians on here saying that the God is OK with state sponsored murder.
Will this story from today change your mind on that?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_re_us/ohio_execution;_ylt=AuzvVE6RM0ECaL0WhFVMCBes0NUE
This is the third very disgusting and cruel case of state sponsored murder in the last year. God doesn't have a problem with this? Really?
2007-05-25 20:29:33 · 26 answers · asked by Perry L 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a christian, I KNOW God Almighty does NOT support the death penalty, despite what people may think. The same One who said "Thou shalt not kill" is the same one who gives life. It is not God's Will that ANYONE perish, but that "whosoever believes in Him have everlasting life".He is in the business of saving lives. Two wrongs don't make a right. Jesus said to forgive our enemies,
I know some people support this idea and it is wrong! God does not condone murdering someone, for murdering someone else. That's absurd. How does that person know that maybe given the chance, they might have got saved, or that maybe there was something else God wanted them to do while they were still alive. Who made them judge? God is the only True Judge of right & wrong, and it is HIS place to decide when a person is born and when they die, not man's.
What this man went through in this article you posted was pure torture. What REALLY bothers me, are those who actually go down there to sit and watch! Why?, are they rejoicing at this person's death? Do they get some kind of thrill out of revenge? Not only that, what about the person's family? They're mothers and fathers, children and brothers and sisters left behind, do others think that God doesn't hear their cries and their prayers at night? He hears every one of them and you can be sure, it is NOT OK with Him.
I'm glad you posted this, because it really makes me wonder, if people's hearts now days are really this calloused. As a christian, it hurts my heart when I hear of someone being put to death, and that people actually support it as "the law". I cried all day the last time I heard there one was about to take place, and I couldn't think about anything else.,
The day it happens,it seems like every where you turn on TV, there' somebody supporting it. I just pray for them and say, what Jesus said as He hung on the cross, "Forgive them Father, they know not what they do".
It's wrong, I don't care what they say, it's wrong!!
2007-05-25 21:24:05 · answer #1 · answered by cas1025 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
very solid question. permit's first hit some severe factors. The "eye for an eye fixed" element is very just about consistently completely misapplied. pass look on the Code of Hammurabi, between the earliest, if not the earliest, code of rules. many human beings will evaluate it to the Torah. The Code of Hammurabi contraptions out effects that selection because of the class of human beings (royalty,etc). The Torah would not have this point of differentiation. In an extremely actual way, grow to be a blow FOR fairness, however notably grotesque. maximum literal interpretations might ingredient to Moses' e book of Genesis 9:6, the place G-d states that because of the fact guy bears G-d's image, the murders are to pay with their blood. maximum literalist are actually not swayed by crime prevention arguments or fee arguments.
2016-10-08 03:39:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I thought a commandment of the bible was Do not murder, or something along the lines of that so No, I don't think God supports the Death penalty. I bet a lot of people are going to say about how it is the right thing to do, but I don't agree with them. I don't think God like us to judge other people and to murder them for what they've done.
2007-05-25 20:35:44 · answer #3 · answered by caroline 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is a God of life and love. It is hard to believe he supports Death Penalty when Jesus already stated it wasn't right to make a judgement on someone. As well as that, one of the commandments stated the omitting of killing. Even when Jesus disciples attacked the men the last night Jesus was betrayed, Jesus told them not to do so. If Jesus did not want them to even harm a hair on a soldier, then I think Death Penalty would be out of the question.
2007-05-25 20:42:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bible supports death penalty....eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, soul for a soul. Why? Because the justice of God is to give back what was taken...those times, God directly communicates to his people so they know if a criminal is certainly the criminal.
Today however, true Christians do not interfere with government and law....after all, no authority can really be sure how much a criminal did...worse if a person really commits the crime...
2007-05-25 20:36:15 · answer #5 · answered by Tomoyo K 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus never pleaded for the thieves to be spared their just punishment on the crosses beside him.
There is a sin unto death. -1 John 5:16. Read it in context with:
No murderer has eternal life abiding in them.-1 John 3:15.
Murder is a sin against the Spirit of God. Justice, however, is a matter of time. Oh, and Angel Diaz took twice as long to die because he was twice a murderer. (coincidence?)
2007-05-25 20:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not just State-sponsored... Christian- and Bible-sponsored:
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: (part 33) KILL UNBELIEVERS - Acts 3:23 … "And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear the prophet, shall be destroyed."
BIBLICAL DEATH PENALTY: (part 34) KILL UNBELIEVERS - 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 (NIV) … They entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul. All who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, were to be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.
2007-05-25 20:34:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God ordered the death penalty for plenty of people in the Old Testament. I don't understand why so many christians ignore this, or say it's irrelevant. It's the same god as the loving god of the new testament, the one who christians claim is eternally unchanging.
2007-05-25 20:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe God - somewhere in the 'good book' - told us that HE was the only One allowed to take a person's life. Any one that decides to play God and take another human being's life had best be prepared to answer to God once he gets up to the pearly gates. -RKO- 05/26/07
2007-05-26 02:01:27 · answer #9 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an Atheist States sponsor justice not Murder. You think killing a child molester and murderer is the same as the murderer killing the child. I say kill the bastards and don't use lethal injection to do it. Hang the bastards or the Guillotine was good. that is the proper punishment for the bastards. Kisses BB
2007-05-25 20:45:08 · answer #10 · answered by Betty Boop Oop A Doop 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋