I have to agree with you. And not death by lethal injection. Too me, that is the easy way out. Hanging in public, with no sack over the head and no quick drop from a platform. Maybe this is harsh, but I stand by my opinion.
No it doesn’t This is use as a proof text, thst is , taking three words away from the context and giving it a meaning not intended by the author. The context of the verse is not the death penalty and was not intended to be used as such by Paul.
The condemned have plenty of time to repent. In fact, the prospect of having to face execution itself can be motivation to repent. There is no evidence that life in prison makes one more likely to repent “in time.” And I agree with another poster that you are taking Scripture out of context. In fact, you show that you have no familiarity with Scripture at all.
Not from what my parents taught me. My mom said that people earmarked for death row NEVER repent. She also said that eve Timmy MC Veigh (who wasn’t Scottish), never repented @ ALL, nor showed any remorse, right up to when he met The Angel Of Death. Ditto for Ted Bundy.
Was there a Gallup poll on that?
If anyone was taking Scripture out of context, that would be my family. Yet everyone’s got a matter of interpetation. However, did we ever stop to think that not even the death penalty can last eternally? In the book of Apocolypse (pardon the spelling), St John said that there would be no death, no pain and no tears. So, we can guess that when the time comes, death will be ancient history when a new earth comes into play. P.S.: Like I said, there is quite a huge amount of supporters in favor of life with no parole on the poll.Just my 2 cents worth, eh?
Truth is not decided by majority vote. I don’t care how many persons voted for life without parole. The death penalty, war, and all other such things of this life will end when Christ returns to establish his Kingdom. But until then, God has established the secular order to keep peace and promote justice so that we can live reasonably well.
I’ll have a tough time trying to explain that to my family.
I voted for Prison. I don’t believe that killing is right except for the cases in which I have been told the Church allows. (such as in self defense and what-not)
I guess it depends on how you define “murder.” I define murder as the killing of innocent life. This would exclude murderers, those killed trying to commit a crime, and those killed on the battlefield during war.
Okay, so you’ve given me two quotes from two persons who think that the death penalty is murder. So what? When my undergraduates do this in their papers, I penalize them severely for not making an actual argument. I can find a list of famous people to support just about anything I want. That doesn’t prove anything. Also, the claim that justice is never advanced by taking human life is simply not true. I would say that defeating the Nazis in World War II and liberating the concentration camps was advancing justice. That necessarily involved taking many human lives.