The Biblical Case Against the Death Penalty

Christ's death on the cross ended the need for blood recompense and blood sacrifice. That is, the sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God, replaced animal sacrifice ...

(PDF) Capital Punishment, Covenant Justice, and the Cross of Christ

8:7). Here Jesus is implicitly invoking the requirement of the Law that the ones to initiate an execution be the witnesses against the accused (Deut. 17:7) ...

What Does the Bible Say About the Death Penalty? - Beliefnet

“Consider this,” argues Reagan: “The Mosaic Law very strongly supported the death penalty and Jesus never once disobeyed the law or taught against it. He said, ...

Capital Punishment Defended | The Reformed Conservative

This article gives a Biblical case favoring capital punishment with a response to three of the most utilized arguments against the doctrine of capital ...

What Does the Bible Say About the Death Penalty? - YouTube

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What does God say about the death penalty and capital punishment?

Kidnapping resulting in death, bearing false witness to a capital crime, murder, rape of children, terrorism and mass murder, treason, espionage ...

Should Christians Support the Death Penalty? - Hal Chaffee Ministries

With this in mind we can understand the death penalty within a Christian framework. Under God's law, because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus ...

Death Penalty • GBCS - General Board of Church and Society

The death penalty denies the power of Christ to redeem, restore, and transform all human beings. United Methodist Social Principles, ¶164.G. Jesus took that ...

Did Jesus Abolish the Death Penalty in the Sermon on the Mount?

This is the retributive principle of the Law. Justice sets a penalty equal to the harm done, and this is a major underpinning of capital ...

Dr. Robert Jeffress: Christian Perspective On Death Penalty | 3-31-19

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in belie ... capital punishment against murderers. And you know some people try ...

20th WCP: A Non-Pacifist Argument Against Capital Punishment

Oddly, the moral argument against capital punishment has not been effective in the United States despite the biblical injunction against killing. Religious ...

What Does the Bible Teach Regarding Capital Punishment?

When a person intentionally puts to death another human being who is made in the image of God, that intention represents high treason against ...

The death penalty goes against the teachings of Jesus

I have stated countless times that even if you believe Scripture justifies capital punishment, we cannot carry it out justly. Especially because there are other ...

What the Bible Says About the Death Penalty for Murderers, Rapists ...

That's not terribly surprising since God's Law is seldom taught in our churches. What I said was this: “I don't believe rapists and child ...

Hell and the death penalty - Favs News

Christians who still find this to be morally contestable find themselves in a dilemma. Curiously, the Bible depicts God as not only in favor of ...

Capital Punishment, Covenant Justice, and the Cross of Christ:

Indeed, had Jesus been claiming his equality with God, he would have handed the scribes and Pharisees grounds for a charge of blasphemy against him and so given ...

Did Jesus Support Capital Punishment? | 933 FM The Fish

Many Christians believe that faithfulness to the ministry of Jesus requires them to oppose capital punishment. Though they acknowledge that the Old Testament ...

The Death Penalty–WDJB, Not WWJD! - Answers in Genesis

Some Christians claim that the death penalty was voided by New Testament teaching. They point out that Christ came to make us free from the law of Moses ...

The Gospel of Life and the Sentence of Death: Catholic Teaching on ...

Despite this, God occasionally calls for restraint and mercy. As He says to Ezekiel: "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn ...

Christians, Crime and the Death Penalty - CultureWatch

The New Testament views capital punishment in much the same way as it does slavery – it doesn't endorse it, it merely gives instruction because ...