What does the Bible say about the death penalty?

It's going to be interesting today, see where we all land,

because again, we don't really talk about these things beforehand.

It's interesting when you look at the spectrum, right?

You'll see so many people who are for death on one hand, and obviously you guys know I'm talking about abortion, but so against death when it comes to the death penalty.

I mean, the Catholic Church is a case in point in that regard. Liberals are a case in point in this regard. Again, I don't want to just say everyone who doesn't believe in the death penalty is liberal or, or theologically off. But you do see that. And I would say,

especially as it relates to liberals, it blows my mind. Ray, don't you think they're so against

depriving women to murder their babies, but they're, therefore, limiting

that.

They're violently against the death penalty. They'll kill you if you disagree with them.

But yeah, for abortion with Farisak zeal, just got to have that abortion yeah um and it's it's it's such wickedness

and then when it comes to the death sentence they're against it with just as much violence yeah

you positioned rightfully that there's sort of a conservative liberal position in regards to

the death penalty but let me take it in-house a little

bit and just recognize that Christians are, this is a tertiary issue, a secondary issue that

Christians are divided. Unless you're the person dying. Unless you're the person dying.

You are very clearly against the death penalty. But throughout church history, pre-liberalism, Augustine had argued against the death penalty. But throughout church history, pre-liberalism, Augustine, had argued against the death

penalty. That doesn't mean it's that we should be for or against it. The only point that I'm making

here is that we as Christians can have charity towards other Christians who are reading the scriptures,

thinking critically, and wanting to come

to a biblical conclusion whose convictions are falling on a different side of the aisle hill.

This is an area in which when you think charitable about other Christians, you are right.

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