Would Jesus condone capital punishment?

Answer 1

No, Christ was all about forgiveness.

Remember he rescued a woman who was sentenced to death by stoning.

He said let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Christ was all about forgiveness, and transforming one's life to a better one.

Answer 2

In his written Word, God does not indicate that capital punishment is wrong. At Genesis 9:6, God said: Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image he made man.” So He authorized capital punishment in the case of murderers.
At Acts 25:10, 11“Paul said: ‘I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also are finding out quite well. If, on the one hand, I am really a wrongdoer and have committed anything deserving of death, I do not beg off from dying; if, on the other hand, none of those things exists of which these men accuse me, no man can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to Caesar!’” Paul, standing before a duly constituted authority, admitted that Caesar had the right to punish wrongdoers, even to execute them. He did not object to punishment in his case if he were guilty.
Admitedly human court systems are not perfect. Many innocent persons have been cinvicted and punished. This was certainly the case with Jesus. Even Pilate said about Jesus: “I found nothing deserving of death in him..." Even though the governmental authority admitted that Jesus was innocent, this innocent man was executed.—Luke 23:22-25.
Such injustices did not move Paul to argue that capital punishment is fundamentally immoral. Rather, God’s thought on the matter is that as long as the superior authorities of Caesar exist, they ‘bear the sword to express wrath upon the ones practicing what is bad.’ That includes applying the sword in the sense of employing capital punishment. (Romans 13:1-4)

Answer 3

He said to keep the laws written down by Moses. There is a lot of capital punishment in that.

Answer 4

It no longer purely condones it, it *demands* it. sure, it fairly is in many situations interior the previous testomony (yet no longer entirely)...whether this is the comparable god in the two testaments, acceptable? Or is it? in case you're saying the bible does not condone or call for the dying penalty, then you could forget approximately another "regulation" or command interior the previous testomony -- such via fact the ten commandments, the prohibitions against homosexuality, and each thing else. if so, purely the "regulation" interior the recent testomony applies...and because there is for all functional purpose no "regulation" interior the recent testomony, all the arguments approximately christian "morality" bypass bye-bye. you won't be in a position to have it the two strategies... Peace.

Answer 5

I don't know if Jesus would condone it,I don't know much about religion.I'm a human being and I condamn it.One more reason why some Europeans look down upon America!The right to live is human right.How can you deny somebody their right to live.It's barbarian.

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Answer 6

I don't know. He never really said. I do wonder, though, with the part when the Pharisees were going to stone that woman, and Jesus stopped them, saying that if any of them were without sin, they should be the one to cast the first stone.

I don't know if that was about their hypocrisy, or about the death penalty.

So again, I don't know if He would or not. Why don't you ask Him?

Answer 7

Mike, bold warrior, Jesus, bless his heart, isn't in a position to 'condone' much of anything. Wherever in Israel they are, the fellow's remains don't amount to much more now than a bone or two and possibly a tad of rotting cloth. As to the death penalty, it is important to remember that, among the developed countries on the planet only one still executes its wayward citizens. Guess who.

Answer 8

He doesn't condone capital punishment, but we do.

Answer 9

NO! Read the account ao the woman caught in adultry. I believe He knows more about that than us. We that call ourselves christian, seem to look for, an excuse, or justification for vengance etc. You might want to read about King David, also. Man human nature is (something else)! But as God has it written 'My ways are NOT your eays' Consider, GRACE, % FORGIVENESS, then US.

Answer 10

I doubt it, Mike. "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." But, then again, there are a lot of death penalties in the Old Testament. But, then again again, Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament and created a new one.