“Moses told you ‘an eye for an eye’, but I tell you do not be angry with your brother.”
And I tell you, there is a huge difference between how I should relate PERSONALLY to someone, and how GOVERNMENT should treat them!
If someone murdered my child, I should forgive them. Government should not. I am called to try to show Christ’s love. Government?
“For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.”
And what of all of the recent overturned convictions based on DNA evidence decades later?