Ep. 342 - What Does the Bible Say About the Death Penalty?

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar discuss the controversial topic of capital punishment, highlighting its complexity and the wide spectrum of beliefs among Christians. While some believers stand firmly for the death penalty, others oppose it with equal conviction. Christians are called to seek biblical truth with humility, not pride, even in secondary issues where disagreement is allowed. Jesus often responded to difficult questions with another question, inviting deeper thought rather than debate. ...

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0:00.0	I'm definitely for the death penalty, but I'm against it.
0:03.2	And let me tell you why I'm of two minds.
0:05.1	The Geronomy 176, whoever is deserving of death,
0:08.1	shall be put to death on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
0:12.4	It shall not be put to death on the testimony of one witness.
0:14.7	And this is why I'm of two minds.
0:16.4	You can see in scripture where there were a lot of false witnesses.
0:19.4	Like you've got Jezebel, she got
0:22.4	false witnesses to testify against Naboth and had him killed. And Acts 16, verse 13, Acts 6 verse 13,
0:30.7	Stephen, false witnesses testifying against Neb was put to death. And with Jesus, false witnesses.
0:36.9	Matthew 26, 59, is 60, came and he was put to death. And with Jesus, false witnesses. Matthew 26, 59, to 60 came and he was put to death.
0:40.4	And that's my concern.
0:42.2	I believe in the death penalty, but a lot of people have been put to death who were innocent.
0:46.6	I took the time to go to Wikipedia and it just about made me cry.
0:51.4	So many people have been put to death.
0:53.5	And afterwards, someone came forward and said,
0:55.4	I did it. Yep. He didn't do it. That has happened. And you can imagine being on death
1:00.5	wrong. I'm innocent. They say, everybody says that. Everybody says that. And it'd be so easy nowadays
1:07.7	to set someone up as a scapegoat. You want someone murdered, so you set someone
1:12.7	up. You drug them, you put him by the body, you put fingerprints on the gun, you go to his
1:17.2	computer, you hack into it and search how to kill somebody. And so when he wakes up, all
1:23.4	the evidence is against him. And then you can even bribe the jury, say, there's money for you or we're going to kill your kids.
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