Why It Is Not Too Late To Repent And Turn To Christ

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This is true, but they never represented the burning as a good act for the earthly life of the person being burnt. It was always a punishment, or a defense against something, never like "ooh, lucky you, being thrown into the fire!"

They did recognize it was bad, which was why they were doing it at all.

Yeah but they thought it was good and that's why they did it. They thought it was justice.
And the idea of justice changed because opinions about justice changed.
But they are still opinions.

Yeah, it's called learning.

I never said people perfectly execute on any given objective moral standard, just that they are present in certain moral situations. Of course you're going to find situations in which mistakes are made, but we've since learned that they were mistakes, using argument and evidence, yes?