Old Testament in Policymakers abroad
On Crime:
OpEd: "An eye for an eye" LIMITS punishment, not ALLOWS it
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely
response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation--a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution. Also, we might remember Jesus' explanation that Moses gave these and some other aspects
of the Torah to accommodate "the hardness of heart" of his listeners.The Bible has numerous examples of mercy as an alternative to the prescribed death sentence, as when God permitted the first known murderer, Cain, to live. In another dramatic
instance, Jesus forgave a women sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery.
It seems logical that all Christians would follow the example of Jesus Christ. In 1999 in St. Louis, the pope described capital punishment as "cruel and unnecessary."
Source: Our Endangered Values (Carter on Foreign Influence) p. 82-83
Sep 26, 2006
On Energy & Oil:
God maintains cold & hot seasons, not climate change
I take my religion seriously--I always say I'm a Jesus guy--so why wasn't I buying into what evangelists such as Rev. Richard Cizik were saying?
Cizik was being sponsored by many environmentalist groups who were pushing the idea that evangelicals were on board with global warming hysteria.Many times during my global warming fight,
I turned to Day 36 of "Promises" which features one of my favorite Bible verses, Genesis 8:22:
As long as the earth remains
There will be springtime and harvest,
Cold and heat, winter and summer,
Day and night.
And this is what a lot of alarmists forget: God is still up there, and He promised to maintain the seasons and that cold and heat would never cease as long as the earth remains.
Source: The Greatest Hoax (J.Inhofe on Foreign Influences), p. 68-71
Feb 28, 2012
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