The greatest assault against human dignity is to maliciously take a human life.

Human life is so sacred.

I will not tolerate the murdering of it.

I remember when the state of Pennsylvania was struggling over the issue of capital punishment.

And the governor of Pennsylvania had to deal with a bill that was passed by the state legislature to restore capital punishment in the state of Pennsylvania.

And the governor vetoed the bill,

and he spoke publicly on it, and he said, we will not have capital punishment in this state.

I'm vetoing this bill because God says, thou shalt not kill. And I thought that was strange,

because when God said, thou shalt not kill, he made the

provision for those who broke that commandment, for those who did murder, that God required

that the murderer be executed. Why? It says here, whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

This is not a prophecy.

This is not saying those that live by the sword will die by the sword.

That's not the point here.

God is issuing a commandment.

Why?

Because in the image of God, man is created.

That the greatest assault against human dignity is to maliciously take a human life, to murder.

We're not talking about involuntary manslaughter. We're talking about malice of forethought

first-degree murder. And God sees murder not only as an attack upon a creature who bears the

image of God, but he regards it as an attack against God himself, because God is saying, I have

put my image on every human being, and

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