You put words in my mouth I didn’t say, so please stop doing that. That stuff you typed, that’s your hangup as to why you don’t believe in it. Be clear on that, and own it.
What I believe is this. I believe that when people commit murder, or attempt to commit murder, I believe they deserve to die. It’s as plain as that. And since we have an albeit flawed system of laws still in operation, and are not in a state of living where vigilantism is the only way to get such justice, jury trials comprised of everyday people deciding the evidence and determining a sentence is what we have.
And what we’ve had since the founding of this country and before. And those such people had biblical basis for setting things up this way.
I quite understood you the first time.
If you went back to a biblical legalism it might actually both disappoint and shock you.
2 witnesses would be needed to convict — and yet they could stone you for sabbath breaking.