should that be legally acceptable, and admirable?
If one of your neighbours' children disobeyed his father, what would you say if he knowingly, gave a severe punishment to the other one?
I find it abhorrent, but I do not know about you.
2007-12-23 03:37:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
can you believe people in the 2100 century believe in a god that needs blood to wash sins? it boggles the mind!
2007-12-23 03:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by stewart t 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, in this day and age I don't see another Jesus around. But values would have been very different back then.
As for the neighbours children.........it would depend of the nature of the 'severe' punishment. If you mean the father beat the heck out of them I would have to do something about it. If the you mean it was something like grounding them for a week, I wouldn't feel a need to do something about that.
2007-12-23 03:59:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You ARE a great sinner, and a very good person DID offer to be executed in your place. It is not your place to judge His behavior as legal, acceptable, or admirable. Yours is only to say Thank You and accept His love and His gift of eternal life. It's your choice, and it's OK to say No, Thanks, if you are so foolishly inclined to do so.
2007-12-23 08:44:48 · answer #3 · answered by leslie b 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in sin or good and evil,there is the capacity in every human being to do great good or great harm,some follow their lifes without regard to how others perceive them and no one has the right to judge a person based on what YOUR beliefs tell you, how you should live,as long as I don't break the civil laws what has how I lead my life got to do with anyone else,it hasn't...and I don't believe in the Jesus so the analogy is left floundering really...
2007-12-23 04:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by SkinAnInk 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you want a Biblical answer , Moses offered to be punished for the sins of his people , the Lord said that the person committing the sin is the only one who can receive the punishment.
Incidentally , this also invalidates Jesus’ death on the cross for your sins , D’oh !
2007-12-23 03:54:15 · answer #5 · answered by londonpeter2003 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Nobody is executed for sin . Sin is the breaking of a church rule or law . Executions are carried out for breaking certain civil laws .
Being in the religious section , I have to think your question referes to the execution of Jesus . If that's true , your statement about punishing the wrong person does not fit the execution of Jesus . His crime was claiming to be more powerful than the emperor , which called for the death penalty.
2007-12-23 03:50:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
What's good and what's evil? Should a person who steals to feed his child due to poverty be punished or helped?
In war, which side is the good (considering each side fights for a reason and in their mind that reason is for a good cause)?
There is no evil and no good. Therefore there is no sin.
2007-12-23 03:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
i find the whole concept of sin "abhorrent"
2007-12-23 03:42:33 · answer #8 · answered by Stormy 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about Jesus being executed in your place your analogy is a little on the poor side. There is more to it than an innocent person dieing.
2007-12-23 03:45:47 · answer #9 · answered by preacher 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
The legality comes from like for like.
Adam was perfect when he disobeyed God, therefore it took another perfect being to answer the challenge which Satan put before God.
Hence Jesus was our ransom.
2007-12-23 03:43:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋