Show me where I said that. You can't because I didn't. No point in me answering or even reading your replies or playing your asinine game of trying to put words in my mouth and trying to get me to answer something I didn't even imply, yet somehow, you inferred.
Get it guys?
If we disagree with the consensus, we’re liberals and every other name the consensus chooses to call us.
Unlike many who claim to be well versed in the scriptures, I claim to know nothing among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
That same Jesus that was found guilty of a crime, in a legal criminal procedure and given the death penalty. They could and did kill Him but couldn’t keep Him dead. Praise God.
Now let the name calling procede, that’s always a winner!
You and your buddies appear to be saying that because Christ died for your sins that the punishment for those sins was paid on the cross so criminals should not be subject to the civil punishment for murder.
You are conflating sin with crime. Christ paid the price for our sins. He did not pay the price for our crimes.
Sins are committed against God. Crimes are committed against people.
Only those people to whom a crime has been committed can legitimately forgive the person for their transgression against them. A victim of murder has no voice in whether or not they forgive their murderer. Hence it is up to society to meet out the punishment for the crimes and the forgiveness of the sin is up to God.
Your conflating of Christ's sacrifice as a justification to eradicate the death penalty for the crime of murder has no justification either in the Bible or in Law. It is an entirely new concept brought to us by the same people who are pushing Abortion, Homosexual Marriage and social justice. It has no historical roots.
The death penalty was consistently enforced for 2000 years after the death of Christ and for 2000 years before that and yet somehow you and your friends have discovered that God prefers life in prison without parole as the biblical punishment for murder and you have the audacity to question the faith of Christians who are not in agreement with your new found biblical concepts.
If you are basing your opposition on the death penalty on the grounds that Jesus somehow paid the price for our CRIMES, then you cannot escape the reality that your position, in order to be internally consistent, would require that we do away with jails and prisons altogether.