(March 4, 2015 at 9:21 am)Norman Humann Wrote:(March 4, 2015 at 9:13 am)Huggy74 Wrote: I guess you're not familiar with the idea of capital punishment.
Care to elaborate on why you made that comparison? I'm not going to pretend I read more of the bible than you. What was Er's offense? Who did he murder?
The idea of capital punishment, which I'm mostly opposed to, is not murdering people because we see them as bad, it's a legal consequence of breaking the law, reserved for the heaviest crimes. Save for the countries that execute it for nonsensical offenses, like homosexuality for example, which incidentally happen to be heavily religious states.
The Bible doesn't say what he did, just that he was "wicked". You'd have to do something pretty egregious to be referred to as wicked. Also I don't think anyone is against a proven murder getting the death penalty, it's just that a lot of errors are made in our human-run justice system, God's justice is perfect.
