If you had lived back in Judea around 30 CE would you have supported it then?
2007-07-25 11:47:31 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Now now... you're just going to make a lot of people cross, with a question like that...
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2007-07-25 11:51:13 · answer #1 · answered by ಠ__ಠ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now, here is an interesting question.
I am ambivalent about the death penalty. It is terribly hard to help someone who is dead. But there are some people I'm afraid that society either cannot or should not help.
In cases of extremely violent murder, especially serial murders, or in cases of extreme cruelty, especially child abuse, I think I would support the death penalty.
But for a crazy itinerant Preacher Whose major crime is telling folks at the church to straighten up their act, and quit stealing from the people?
Ahh, no...not now...and not 2000 years ago.
2007-07-25 18:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point. I can't understand how a Christian can support it when there is such a thing as "forgiveness". How do we know if that person has truly repented and have been forgiven by God? If they have then they are washed white as snow. All of their sins are forgiven as if they never happened just like ours were. And to kill that person ............ I wouldn't want that on my conscience. That was the case with Tanya Tucker, the woman they killed on death row in Texas. She became a Christian in jail. She helped her boyfriend kill 2 people while they were high on drugs and repented. On her way to her death, all she cared about was the families of the victims. There is no forgiveness in the judicial system but that doesn't mean we have to be a part of that.
2007-07-25 18:54:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Men implement the death penalty. So there will always be mistakes. Innocents will be killed. Christians know this. Killing the innocent so you can kill the guilty is unacceptable. Any Christian who supports the death penalty is in direct opposition to Jesus. Their claims of having a personal relationship with him are bogus.
The work for themselves and Jesus' opposition.
2007-07-25 19:04:19 · answer #4 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, Jesus wasn't killed because He committed a crime but because the Jews rejected Him as telling the truth, though He was, and therefore concluded that what He was saying was blasphemy.
Nevertheless, if someone had committed a crime that justified death and a judge determined it as such, though the judge may have been wrong, I must respect the authority unless it opposes morality, such as condemning someone for a crime I did not recognize as a crime.
2007-07-25 19:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't support it. The man beside Jesus on the cross was forgiven. I believe in allot of forgiveness. Technically, I don't know if I believe in prison. All I know is I don't want to be on jury duty. Nor do I want to be president. If I was running things, I'd do worse than Bush...
2007-07-26 02:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by Charlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually
the most consequential death penalty in all of history is the second death, the lake of fire
and there is only one way out
of course, Christians wholeheartedly glorify GOd leaning on the work of Jesus on the cross, depending on His work to deliver them from the future death penalty in the lake of fire
GOd has decreed a death penalty. The wages of sin are death.... but... the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Romans 3:23,24
2007-07-25 18:53:33 · answer #7 · answered by whirlingmerc 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes most assuredely Jesus Christ was WRONGLY accused tried tortured and murdered. 99% of the vicious killers in Prison in the USA today were not.Nice try Bleeding Heart Smartey Pants.
2007-07-25 18:54:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A vast difference in the two. One was based solely on religious beliefs and the other is codified secular law. Very different situations.
Paul writing in the Book of Romans instructs us to follow and respect the laws of men, placed here by God for man's benefit, and authority is given even to men only by God. Since ultimately God instituted law and authority of men, we should obey these laws.
No one of any religion should ever be put to death for their beliefs. Also, the crucifixion of Christ was permitted by Christ. He said no one takes His life, He freely gives it up..and He has the power to take it back up again. He did this.
The crux of your question is comparing apples to oranges. One has nothing to do with the other.
2007-07-25 18:51:14 · answer #9 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why, what's the deal with 30 CE???
OUT
2007-07-25 18:58:54 · answer #10 · answered by Peter 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋