Subject: Death penalty Biblical? |
Bible Note: I apologize, I am new at writing 'arguments'. I beleive I have found the answer. Matt 9:17 "Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved." 6 Mark 2:22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." 7 Luke 5:37 "And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. 8 Luke 5:38 "But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. The Old Testament laws are not to be mixed with the new tetament laws, or else the skin will break, and nothing will work. The old Testament was the law of death and the new testament the law of life. In the early days, people were put to death for adultery, for going against their parents and being stupid, or for getting married saying you were a virgin, and your'e not. If your bull killed someone, you were put to death. This is in Leviticus and Exodus. I have not searched anywhere else. The two parts of the bible represent 2 seperate beliefs, or covenants. One brings death, the other life. If the new covenant brings life, why demand that what it says must be supported in the old covenant of death? Jesus came to release us from the bondage to the old law, which results in death. We are told to forgive sinners in the new covenant, but, in the old, we are told to kill sinners. How can we expect to answer wether or not one should kill sinners, if we must put our faith in both the old covenant and the new one? Jesus clearly set a new law, a new standard, and taught that we are to follow him. The old covenant is defunct. We cannot put the new in the old. So we want to answer wether or not there should still be a death penalty, but the rule is we have to agree with both the old teachings and the new teachings. The bag will split. If we believe in Jesus' teachings, we cannot also hope that Moses agrees we shouldn't kill sinners. Moses has always thought sinners should die. No matter how many times we pick up the bible, Moses is going to say, "so and so should be put to death". It's not going to change. Neither will Jesus' teachings. Moses would say we need to kill someone if their ox got out and killed someone. Moses said eveyone who practices witchcraft needs to be killed. Moses said If a son is not listening to his parents and being stubborn, drinking and such, (like teenagers often do) they should bring him to be killed. This is in Leviticus. Jesus is not ever going to agree with Moses, and Moses will always be for capital punishment. So if you want both salvation and death, you have it, right in the bible. That is not to say that you can actually have both; so you might as well stop asking for an agreement in the matter. Jesus came to change things. Otherwise, he would not have come at all. As an aside, I am reading the book of Genesis right now and I am getting a lot from it. When I say it is the law of death, I am referring to that no one is righteous, and no one can therefore succeed in being accepted by God under the first covenant; but will feel guilt because they can't be righteous and perfect. All would be put to death under the first covenant. I am new to this, and this is just my understanding; I am not claiming that I am right. (I cannot say I know this to be true, because I have not taken the time to read the whole bible, and besides, I am still learning. But I will say what I think anyway. There are verses to back this up, but I am too tired right now to do it.) |