The death penalty
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What I get from Christians is that if I want to call myself a Christian I therefore must support the death penalty. A person who claims to be a Christian should be basing his/her life on Scripture, which, as I suspect you know, was given to Christians to guide our lives. What you wrote in your post #30, however, suggests the Christians don't have to use the Christian Bible as our ultimate source of authority:
I know many here support it because the Bible does, doesn't mean I have too. Why repay killing with more killing? Why stoop to their level?
There are people who believe in infant baptism, tithing, calvinism, the Word of Faith movement, and so on. While I disagree with people who hold these positions, if they do support(or attempt to) their views with Scripture I generally do not question their Christianity.
You, on the other hand, are seemingly tossing out the Bible and saying "I'll believe what I want from the Bible and disregard the rest". If you made an attempt to reject the death penalty and based it on Scripture and it turned out to be weak attempt it would be better than what you're doing right now.
Believe it or not, I never use the bible in counter arguments. When I'm dealing with the general public, I usually act out my faith without directly quoting the Bible. That's quite a bit different than tossing out the Bible.
Plus, innocent people have been executed later to find out to be innocent. How is that fair? Innocent people have died because of a great many things in life. Should we ban everything that kills? Cars kill. Knives kill. How is that fair?
I know many here support it because the Bible does, doesn't mean I have too. Why repay killing with more killing? Why stoop to their level?
There are people who believe in infant baptism, tithing, calvinism, the Word of Faith movement, and so on. While I disagree with people who hold these positions, if they do support(or attempt to) their views with Scripture I generally do not question their Christianity.
You, on the other hand, are seemingly tossing out the Bible and saying "I'll believe what I want from the Bible and disregard the rest". If you made an attempt to reject the death penalty and based it on Scripture and it turned out to be weak attempt it would be better than what you're doing right now.
Believe it or not, I never use the bible in counter arguments. When I'm dealing with the general public, I usually act out my faith without directly quoting the Bible. That's quite a bit different than tossing out the Bible.
Plus, innocent people have been executed later to find out to be innocent. How is that fair? Innocent people have died because of a great many things in life. Should we ban everything that kills? Cars kill. Knives kill. How is that fair?