Is Capital Punishment in the Bible? | Torah | Genesis 9:1-17
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How Do We Apply the Death Penalty?
In genesis chapter nine, he calls on human beings to admiister justice. And i think that's at least in part because god knows that we'll take a far greater interest in maintaining justice and enforcing laws if we have responsibility for the system. There'd be no heartbreak when the guilty go unpunished. So why doesn't god just punish people himself? Why delegate such an important job to an imperfect system run by imperfect people? But that's exactly what god does do. He's over seeing it, but he's given responsibility of it to us,. We are free to succeed or fail in how we administer justice. How shauld we think about applying the death penalty? Does
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