Capital punishment
153A New Law (Part 2)
16 Jan 2023
12:19¶ 49
“You mentioned capital punishment. This is obviously going to be a point of contention when Christians talk to non-Christians. Non-Christians generally do not think…”
12:32¶ 51
“Exactly, glad you heard the capitals in there. They would argue that it is unloving, unkind, and does not accomplish anything because the murderer…”
12:47¶ 52
“There are all kinds of arguments you could make, and some of them have a plausible sound, and yet God, with regard at least…”
132You'll Know It When you See It
22 Aug 2022
31:41¶ 122
“I don’t know how many TV shows I’ve seen where someone is hanging by their fingertips from a ledge of a very tall building,…”
32:32¶ 123
“There’s a question of authority here, but the question of whether or not this man, being a mass murderer many times over and it…”
34:07¶ 126
“And on the flip side, no temporal judgment is directly equated to God’s judgment. If you repent and are a Christian and find refuge…”
106To Kill A King
21 Feb 2022
16:39¶ 67
“Among the many side issues, I’ll just throw this out. I don’t know that we need to expand upon it, but there are those,…”
17:09¶ 69
“The thing is that capital punishment is kind of permanent, is the argument. We can punish them other ways, so we just took 20…”
17:22¶ 71
“We’ll say we’re sorry. If you’re going to inflict consequences you can’t call them back, and David here seems to at least suspect or…”
53The Right to Punishment
3 Jan 2021
36:11¶ 116
“First, justice is always fallible, and although this is an extreme case, courts always make mistakes. They do so very often. That’s the reality.…”
36:41¶ 117
“We can look at God and say, “God, how dare you!” Well, because this earthly life is not all there is, when we execute…”
19:15¶ 67
“Again we’re back to “life for a life” being the one thing that does not seem to be figurative, because we have plenty of…”
42The Metaphysics of Life
18 Oct 2020
32:19¶ 104
“But again we have to reckon with God’s justice and God’s righteousness. The God who said, “Thou shalt not kill,” is the God who…”
31:44¶ 103
“Capital punishment tends to kill people. There was a book awhile back by a gentleman who I will not name, but who made a…”
31:43¶ 102
“Capital punishment.”
34The Right to Imperfect Justice
23 Aug 2020
5:39¶ 15
“Someone throws out, “Well, capital punishment means that some innocent people might be executed,” and he says, “And that, of course, is the prima…”
5:57¶ 17
“You know, when God instituted capital punishment, he knew that, and that’s something that we, both as Americans and as Christian Americans, really struggle…”
6:20¶ 18
“There’s a number of answers to that, one being, “Well, God says so.” Another is, “But you’re going to endorse a judicial system that…”