Is it biblical for a believer to agree to the death penalty?
In Genesis 9: 6, God establishes that he who spills the blood of another should have his blood spilled as well. Even so, within the Christian world, there is a division between two groups that understand this verse in different ways. One group says that the death penalty should not continue today in the light of the New Testament principles of grace, mercy and forgiveness. These people also point out that the law of Moses was fulfilled by Christ. On the other side of the debate is another group that understands that the death penalty should prevail because Genesis 9: 6 was not part of the law of Moses, so that when the law of Moses was left behind, those principles that formed the laws of Moses creation remained in force. Likewise, Romans 13 tells us that the government is a minister of God to avenge the wrong done and that it does not carry the sword in vain. This sword can be seen as a symbol of justice, but, at the same time, it is a representative of God to avenge the wrong done. If we understand the high value that God gives to human life, we could better understand the death penalty. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Our generation has lost sensitivity to human life; We live in the midst of a generation that has approved abortion and has seen so many movies where so many deaths occur that subconsciously we are being desensitized to all that is the loss of human life. Even the newspapers and the media report the news in such a graphic way that we see that death no longer impacts us. Even hearing of a murder no longer has the weight or impact it once had on people of our generation. Consequentially, for having lost value to human life and the understanding of the seriousness of committing the crime of murdering another person, the death penalty horrifies us. This even though, unlike the time of Moses where there were more than thirty sins that could lead to the death penalty, getting to the death penalty today requires substantial evidence of a crime.
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We should so value human life that those who willfully take the life of another human should pay the ultimate price for murder. Which is execution.
It's bizarre to me that people who are against the death penalty for murder are typically in favor of the murder of the unborn simply because their mother considers their lives to be inconvenient.
Conservatives are typical pro-life and pro-death penalty.
Liberals are typically pro-abortion and anti-death penalty.