The Death Penalty
THE DEATH PENALTY
You might wonder, since I, Eric Rose, profess to be a born-again Christian, what do I think about the death penalty?
Especially since a wrongful conviction can kill a not-guilty person?
In 2024, I had a dream, that I was a young man again.
My parents were still alive, and I was visiting them.
I dreamed that I had killed someone and was preparing to go to my execution.
Though the peripheral particulars of the dream didn't make sense,
I have felt the guilty emotions of being a killer and I felt the dread of being sentenced to die.
It is a tragedy to be executed for a crime one didn't commit.
But mathematically, invented viruses and their deadly vaccines, medical mis-practice, insurance company's greed, FEMA failures, abortion clinics, drug dealers, drunk or texting drivers - kill thousands of people every day.
A law-abiding American is more likely to be killed by an illegal immigrant
than a convicted murderer is likely to die by lethal injection.
A prison inmate is more likely to be killed by another prisoner than by execution.
In 2023, 24 inmates died by execution, 212 inmates died by inmate-murder.
Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) Data Collection | State Reported Deaths in Custody Interactive Tables | Bureau of Justice Assistance
People on Death Row live longer than the unborn in one of Cecile Richards' abortion clinics.
Most important, what does God think of the death penalty?
Well, God invented the death penalty for certain sins in the Old Testament. Fact.
Especially since a wrongful conviction can kill a not-guilty person?
In 2024, I had a dream, that I was a young man again.
My parents were still alive, and I was visiting them.
I dreamed that I had killed someone and was preparing to go to my execution.
Though the peripheral particulars of the dream didn't make sense,
I have felt the guilty emotions of being a killer and I felt the dread of being sentenced to die.
It is a tragedy to be executed for a crime one didn't commit.
But mathematically, invented viruses and their deadly vaccines, medical mis-practice, insurance company's greed, FEMA failures, abortion clinics, drug dealers, drunk or texting drivers - kill thousands of people every day.
A law-abiding American is more likely to be killed by an illegal immigrant
than a convicted murderer is likely to die by lethal injection.
A prison inmate is more likely to be killed by another prisoner than by execution.
In 2023, 24 inmates died by execution, 212 inmates died by inmate-murder.
Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) Data Collection | State Reported Deaths in Custody Interactive Tables | Bureau of Justice Assistance
People on Death Row live longer than the unborn in one of Cecile Richards' abortion clinics.
Most important, what does God think of the death penalty?
Well, God invented the death penalty for certain sins in the Old Testament. Fact.
God killed people in the New Testament when they misbehaved: Ananias and Sapphira.
He said that certain sins take away a person's right to live.
We saw no Christian-government-based executions in the New Testament because Christians
didn't have control of the government.
And consider that God Himself, imagined, designed and created Hell;
a place of eternal punishment for people who don't want Him in their lives. It's true.
He said that certain sins take away a person's right to live.
We saw no Christian-government-based executions in the New Testament because Christians
didn't have control of the government.
And consider that God Himself, imagined, designed and created Hell;
a place of eternal punishment for people who don't want Him in their lives. It's true.
Hell is not the devil's lair; it will be the devil's eternal prison. And it will be the eternal prison
for those who live without God, for no one who refuses God in this life can go to heaven.
God can cut us off if we rebel against him.
While He loves us, He also owns us,
and hating God is a form of violence that Heaven cannot tolerate.
This is a hard truth, but it is truth.
God can cut us off if we rebel against him.
While He loves us, He also owns us,
and hating God is a form of violence that Heaven cannot tolerate.
This is a hard truth, but it is truth.
THE DEATH PENALTY
Differences betweenthe Bible and the US Constitution
The US Constitution is like a set of training wheels to the Bible.
It teaches the basics of:
> recognizing the existence of God (as the basis of human rights)
> acting decently to other humans.
2) The main task of the US Constitution is to teach people
that they have a right to self-determination in daily life
provided it does not hinder those same rights in others.
3) The main task of the Bible is to teach us that God exists infinately
and that once conceived, we are also eternal and eternally subordinate to God.
If we grasp this concept and burrow into it, we can live at peace with God
and with the US Constitution.
As teens, we are told that we must obey our parents until we become legal adults,
then we can do as we please. This is not exactly true. As adults, we are turned over to the authority of the US Constitution, and also to the Bible.
There is never a time when a human is without an overseeing authority.