Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Is capital punishment a crime against Gods will?
ume first that a person has committed a heinous crime against man and his government. For sake of discussion let's ume a triple homicide where someone broke into a house with the intent to commit murder and did so in a state where 1st degree murder can and will (in this case) be subject to the death penalty. According to both the Ten Commandments and the New Testament, the taking of another life is considered wrong. Therefore the judge who hands down the sentence of death and the jailer who ultimately carries it out would be considered accessories to murder themselves. As much as our society would (probably) agree with the terms of the sentence, it could still be considered fundamentally flawed from a strictly religious standpoint. It may be Gods wish to (unbeknownst to us) ultimately spare the life of the criminal for judgment in heaven and punishment on Gods own terms. In uming the role of executioner and deciding on who lives and who dies, are we not usurping Gods role in final judgment.
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