I had a thought this morning that I need some feedback on. I need some discussion and debate. I need to figure out what reactions to it make sense to me, and what reactions I find silly. Because this thought made my head spin around a little and I want to get it set back on. Here it is:
As Christians we believe that God's ultimate gift to us, the key to our redemption from sin and eternal life in the presence of God came in the form of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It came in the form of the brutal, agonizing, cruel and unusual Roman form of capital punishment exhibited on the most innocent man in the history of the universe. The cross was the Roman electric chair. It was the Roman lethal injection. Only it was so much more agonizing, bloody, and brutal than either of those. We are saved by the blood shed via the capital punishment of a completely innocent man. No Roman capital punishment = no Crucifixion
So how should Christians feel about the government practicing capital punishment on men tried and proven guilty of heinous crimes?
Does thinking about the Crucifixion as capital punishment change how you think about it?
What do you think?
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First,about 18 percent of people killed by the death penalty are innocent. Second, the killing of christ by the roman form of the death penalty only proves how primative this practice actually is. Just my two cents.
I guess I don't get the link between Christ's suffering and the link to current-day capital punishment Because I don't think my salvation is tied to cross at all...it's tied to the fact that Christ rose again! The resurrection is where our salvation hinges, not the suffering.
That being said, by his stripes we are healed, because He rose again. That makes Christ's work on the cross permanently separate from the doings of the current justice system. There's just not a link there, in a general sense.
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