(November 15, 2015 at 10:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You're confusing legality with morality. People are convicted of crimes, they are not convicted for being "bad people". Being a "bad person" is not a crime, and doing a "bad thing" is not, as much as we may want it to be, illegal.
Are you down to arguing semantics? Is a rapist a good person, yes or no? Is a murderer a good person, yes or no? Is a thief a good person, yes or no?
(November 15, 2015 at 10:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Here, in our country, no lie I might have ever told is enough to warrant the sentence your god has decreed - because we, as reasonable and compassionate beings...have determined that the punishment must fit the crime. Your god is neither reasonable nor compassionate, and obviously this "punishment befitting the crime" business is nonsense to him. It;s just blood, blood, blood, and more blood, no matter what. Go, be with him, move to his country, where he writes the laws...stop dawdling around here...if you think that he has a better thing going. Why are we even having this discussion, and why are you still here?
Really? What about the guy that got a life sentence for stealing a donut? Does that punishment fit the crime? Reason and compassion have nothing to do with the law, which is why it's depicted as wearing a blindfold, it's impartial.
how many tames have you heard a Judge say that their hands were tied because the law demanded a certain sentence?
The same goes for the law of God, there is no compassion, only justice. If the penalty for sin is death, then his hands are tied, if you commit sin, you die, period.
But through the grace of Jesus Christ you are exempted from the penalty of death.
