Ben Williams wrote:
I believe that the punishment should fit the crime.
If you steal, you should pay for what you stole.
If you kill, how is it justice to let you live?
Ben, life does not exist because of what you believe. Life does not exist because of what you do. Life is the gift of God. This subject is not about what we believe or what we would do.
The crux of the matter is this. Should a Born Again Christian minister the death penalty? Could you by proxy execute a person for thier crime against God?
Think about it? What would Jesus say to the thief today? What would He say to the Murderer? What would He say to the Adulterer?
What would He say to you?
Where would our theology be if Saul of Tarsus had got his just deserts?
Where would we be if we recieved our true deserts in this life.
Please detach this subject from final judgement. This is about the ministration of Christ in this earth. The only testimony they will have of Him today is what they get from His body. How sick we are when men can claim to be for the penalty of death and still claim knowlege of Christ.
What happens in the Texas jailhouse is no different to what happened out in the field in Genesis 4.
I hope that God will teach me the meaning mercy.
And if He does, this I know, that others will benefit from what God has done in my undeserving heart.
God bless us all
The Pilgrim