How do you know? You don't! Do you know that God is going to judge YOU the way that you judge others?
James 2:13
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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James 2:13
13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Cristo Rei
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Cristo Rei
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What do u think happens to someone who cannot afford $100,000 in legal fees?
The OT is important too. Yes, Jesus told Peter to put away his sword, because he wasn't setting up an earthly kingdom. He also said that if he were setting up an earthly kingdom his followers would fight. Whether to pick up the sword or not depends on what we are called to currently do.
God doesn't contradict what he said in the OT with what he says in the New.
OT NEVER overrules NT. Would you execute an innocent man and think that you will receive mercy on Judgment Day?
Why would I execute an innocent man? I will receive Mercy, entirely depending on whether I'm in Christ or not, not because I've lived a perfect life.
Executing an innocent person is FAR from a perfect life. That's MURDER! We will receive mercy ONLY if we are merciful! MURDER is not being merciful.
So you believe we can enter heaven based on our works?
Again, why would I execute an innocent person?
Biblically, any sin can be forgiven BTW.
Why are you defending MURDER? If someone died murdering your family would he enter into God's Kingdom? Stop playing God! You AIN'T God!
Bobby Jo
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So you don't care what the OT & NT instruct us?
And so you make EXCUSES ...
Bobby Jo
What are you screaming about?I didn't say I was God and I did not defend murder. what If I died defending my family by killing someone who was attacking them? Can I go to heaven then? Where does it say killing sends one to hell? Did David go to hell? He sure killed a lot of people.
Why don't you obey OT? It's not a smorgassboard. You don't get to pick the parts you like.
Exodus 31:15 Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Cristo Rei
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The NT doesn't condone the DP. Ur just driven by death, innocent or guilty makes no difference to you
This is the debate forum....any thread started here is open for debate...let's keep it civil.
The thing is though the 2 criminals hung beside Jesus, weren't put up on the cross by Christians.
The Wild West days though, sounded like it was pretty much an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.
I don't think it would have been a safe era for men, women, kids to live in.
And how many innocent people died in the wild west? I am not sure.
Okay, I have a question....is the main concern over the death penalty about innocent people being put to death for a crime they didn't commit or is it about punishing murderers who have no regard for human life? If the argument is strictly about innocent people then this is not a true debate about the death penalty...it is a debate about those who died innocently.
IMO your statement is exaggerated as to what the member is contending....there are laws that are written and upheld by the justice system....there are punishments written in those laws to warn the offender of what could happen if they break these laws.
I worked in a prison...and even in prison these offenders attack and kill each other.....
And some were already serving life sentences for committing murder so they don't care...what's another life sentence....only one life sentence is going to have any effect on the criminal.
Numerous criminals have been released just to go out and commit the same crimes that got them there in the first place....
It's both, I guess you could say.
As the guilty man can be forgiven and an innocent man could be incorrectly or unjustly sentenced to death in another country.
In persecuted nations Christians are falsely accused of crimes they didn't do, and some lose their lives because of it.
Christians who are martyred over their faith is written in scripture and they have a special place in heaven just for them. Jesus said we would be persecuted.....Jesus Himself was given the death penalty and Barnabus was set free...there is no rhyme or reason other than it is the work of Satan and his demons.
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