Is Jesus pro-death or pro-life?
Jesus says in Matthew 15:4 "Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death"
he was even mad at Jews in 15:7 because they didn't murder their children. "You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:"
I'm pretty sure Palin would legalize the death penalty for bad teenagers to please the lord!
Update:Liberals are a disgrace- If I hate Christians because I hate Christianity then you hate Muslims because you hate Islam.
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Not sure what you're getting at.... Like most topics, you can find Biblical support for either side if you look hard enough. As Shakespeare once wrote, “the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
There are just as many (if not more) NT verses that are ANTI-death penalty. For example:
- Matthew 5:7 (Jesus praises mercy)
- Matthew 5:38-39 (Jesus rejects "an eye for an eye")
- James 4:12 (GOD is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice)
- Romans 12:17-21 (do not answer evil with evil; God will see to justice in the afterlife)
- John 8:7 (all humans are imperfect, and thus unqualified to decide whether someone lives or dies)
- James 1:20 (my personal favorite: "For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.")
There are many, many practical problems with capital punishment (that I won't get into here), but purely from a moral standpoint, it is pretty clear that Jesus did not support it. True CHRISTians shouldn’t, either.
you left out the first half of the verse
1Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, 2"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
3Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
(heres the key you left out)
: 4 For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death"
look at this :verse;
5But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,' 6 he is not to 'honor his father with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
He was quoting the LAWS that the Pharisees lived by as a example of how they did not honor their mom & dad yet made a big deal about washing of the hands ritual,
twisting Gods word like you are doing is the first sign of greed and self agends
Jesus was like me, he hated abortion with a passion, and supported the death penalty to deal with the criminals that don't deserve life because they have taken someone else's personally I think death row is a good place for abortion doctors and patients alike.
Palin/Beck 2012
Mr little muhamad, your hate for Jesus and Christians is so evident in your mis-interpretation of the "real" Holy Scriptures, I will be wasting my time with you if I try to convince you that Jesus is not what you accuse him of being, but nevertheless He gave his life for you, He died in your place so you could live forever(that is, if you accept Him as your savior)
It doesn't do you any favors to take Jesus out of context without reading His whole message to the world. It is worse than being semi-informed about a topic but talking on it like an expert. It is pitiful.
Is the death penalty pro life?
Dudley Sharp
First, the "pro life" term was, originally, identified with the anti abortion movement, which still seems the most appropriate context.
Secondly, in the context of the facts, yes, of course you can be pro life and pro death penalty. There is no contradicition.
All sanctions are given because we value what is being taken away.
Whether is be fines, freedom or lives, in every case we take things away, as legal sanction, it is because we value that which is taken away.
How can it be a sanction, if we do not value that which is taken away? It can't.
In addition, more innocent lives are saved when we use the death penalty, thereby a pro life benefit.
Deterrence
All prospects of a negative outcome deter some. It is a truism. The death penalty, the most severe of criminal sanctions, is the least likely of all criminal sanctions to violate that truism.
"The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-...
25 recent studies finding for deterrence, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation,
http://www.cjlf.org/deathpenalty/DPDeterrence.htm
"Deterrence and the Death Penalty: A Reply to Radelet and Lacock"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/02/deterrence...
"Death Penalty, Deterrence & Murder Rates: Let's be clear"
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/03/death-penalt...
We have great care for innocents
In at least three ways, innocents are more protected with the death penalty, than with lesser sanctions. Another pro life consideration.
"The Death Penalty: More Protection for Innocents"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/05/the-death-...
The false innocence claims by anti death penalty activists are legendary. Some examples:
"The Innocent Executed: Deception & Death Penalty Opponents"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/10/08/the-innoce...
The 130 (now 139) death row "innocents" scam
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/03/04/fact-check...
"A Death Penalty Red Herring: The Inanity and Hypocrisy of Perfection", Lester Jackson Ph.D.,
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102909A
The moral and religious arguments, in support of the death penalty, all have a foundation in respecting innocent life, therefore, when it is wrongly taken away, the highest form of sanction is provided.
As in:
Genesis 9:5-6: "For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning.... Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image."
Chapter V:The Sanctity of Life, "Principles of Conduct: Aspects of Biblical Ethics" By John Murray, 1991 (first published 1957) by Wm. B. Eerdmans http://tiny.cc/4SFBY
"Death Penalty Support: Religious and Secular Scholars"
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/07/death-penalt...
"Pope John Paul II: Prudential Judgement and the death penalty"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2007/07/23/pope-john-...
Other issues:
"The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/07/20/the-death-...
"Killing equals Killing: The Amoral Confusion of Death Penalty Opponents"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2009/02/01/murder-and...
"The Death Penalty: Not a Human Rights Violation"
http://homicidesurvivors.com/2006/03/20/the-death-...
"Physicians & The State Execution of Murderers: No Ethical/Medical Dilemma"
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2009/10/physicians-s...
Well Jesuses kingdom is in the next world, therefore he is pro-afterlife
Matthew 25
31"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
37"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
He was "pro-justice". Additionally, he was questioning their right to call themselves Jews.
It is written: He is the God, of the living .....I set before you life and death, "CHOOSE LIFE". The wages of sin is death ...but the gift of God, is eternal LIFE.