(June 26, 2013 at 4:24 am)Consilius Wrote: If capital punishment is OK for some people and not for others, then it is inconsistent.
I am of the opinion that capital punishment is okay for nobody.
Quote:Killing infants was, again, done to hostile peoples who had tried to kill Israelite infants. The Egyptians did it to the peaceful people they had enslaved.
Two wrongs make a right?
Quote:This law code was not local. It was in practice in places all over the world. It was the norm for humanity. God used the general law code of whoever he punished so that the peoples he judged would only receive what they expected to receive. People who think what they are doing is good differ from people who perform the same act that know what they are doing is bad and know the penalty they are risking. Jesus preaches about ignorance of the truth in Luke 12:47:
No law in effect, ever, allowed for eternal punishment in response for any transgression. Though I suppose some would if they could.