Thursday, August 20, 2020

Bob Sayre: God Demands Capital Punishment for All Murders!


  
 But Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel
hacked Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
- I Samuel 15:33 (NKJV)
Samuel kills Agag
Artist: MERIAN, Matthaeus the Elder
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God Demands Capital Punishment for All Murders!

  • There is a big difference between “murder” and “killing.”
  • The Bible actually says: "You shall not murder.”
  • God commanded His people to kill His enemies and purge evil/sin.
  • The government has the God given right to execute a murder.
  • Check it out as the Bereans did after Paul’s teaching.
Contrary to what many Christians believe, the Bible clearly states that anyone who murders another person must forfeit their life. However, there is a big difference between “murder” and “killing” someone. Webster defines murder as: “the crime of unlawfully killing a person esp. with malice aforethought.” Kill is defined as: “to deprive of life.”

Killing in wartime and for self-defense has been accepted throughout history. God has commanded killing in order purge evil from the land.

The Bible actually says: Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder.” However, God’s commandment distinguishes between killing and murder.  In all Bible translations except for the “King James Version” They use the word murder rather than kill. The Roman Catholics church and some Christian denominations still teach that the commandment means to not kill any human being. Killing in wartime and for self-defense has been accepted throughout history. God has commanded killing in order purge evil from the land.

Throughout the Old Testament, God commanded His people to kill His enemies and purge evil/sin from the land. This included the killing of men, women and children that He wanted eliminated from the earth:
  1. Deuteronomy 20:16-17 “However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 
  2. 1 Samuel 2-3 “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys”. 
  3. 1st Samuel 15:19 “And he sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.’”
C.S. Lewis had the best explanation of killing in war vs. murder. “Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment—even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is, therefore, in my opinion, perfectly right for a Christian judge to sentence a man to death or a Christian soldier to kill an enemy. I always have thought so, ever since I became a Christian, and long before the war, and I think so now that we are at peace. It is no good quoting ‘thou shall not kill.’ There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and the word to murder. And when Christ quotes that commandment He uses the murder one in all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. … All killing is not murder any more that all sexual intercourse is adultery.     
          
Jesus never suggested that serving in the military was against God’s will.

Jesus never suggested that serving in the military was against God’s will. When a Roman Centurion came to him for healing of one of his servants, Jesus healed the servant and praised him because of his faith. Matthew 8:10 “When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.” Later Cornelius, another Roman Centurion, was greeted by an angle who praised Cornelius. Peter visited his home and witnessed the Holy Spirit being poured out on Cornelius’ family. Acts 10:22 The men replied, “We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.” 

The Bible is clearly in favor of taking the life of a murderer:
  1. Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
  2. Exodus 21:12 “Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death.
  3. Numbers 35:16 “If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
  4. Romans 13:1 “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.”
  5. Romans 13:3-4 For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and he will commend you. 4For he is God’s servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
  6. 1st Peter 2:3 “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every authority instituted among men: whether to the king, as the supreme authority”
Based on the above Scripter, how can any Bible believing Christian deny that God is in favor of capital punishment? God’s Word makes it clear that the government has the God given right to execute a murder or for any other serious crime that the state feels is justified for the offence. The only exception to the government using capital punishment is when it comes into direct conflict with God’s Word. I don’t believe God approves of abortion even though our government makes taking the life of an unborn child legal.

If any reader disagrees with my conclusion of capital punishment based on the Bible, please check it out as the Bereans did after Paul’s teaching. :Acts 17:11“Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.”

Bob Sayre

Robert (Bob) W. Sayre, Sr. grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University. Later he was an executive in several independent distributors. He resides now in St Charles, MO. Prior to retiring, Robert owned three remodeling companies. After he retired, he volunteered at Salvation Army, Oasis Food Pantry, “Jobs for Life” and helping the homeless. He also wrote a book: “The Truth Will Set You Free, Eleven Myths Satan Uses to Deceive Man”. He is now the CEO at Developing Our World.  
http://www.satansliescankillyou.info

  
While the thief on the cross found pardon in the sight of God - ‘Today you will be with Me in Paradise’ - that pardon did not extend to eliminating the consequences of his crime - ‘We are being justly punished, for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds.’ (Luke 23:39-43)". Neither God nor Jesus nor the Holy Spirit nor the prophets nor the apostles ever spoke out against the civil authorities’ use of executions in deserving cases - not even at the very time of Jesus’ own execution when He pardoned the sins of the thief, who was being crucified alongside Him. Indeed, quite the opposite. Their biblical support for capital punishment is consistent and overwhelming. Furthermore, Jesus never confuses the requirements of civil justice with those of either eternal justice or personal relations. 
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