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To: LowOiL
"Vengance is mine.. "

So save your wrath for the law, Mr. Low Oil.

Your domestic crusade is unjustified.

174 posted on 04/04/2003 8:38:59 PM PST by Jhoffa_ (Frodo sleeps with men...)
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To: Jhoffa_
"Vengance is mine.. " So save your wrath for the law, Mr. Low Oil.

"And will you profane Me among My people… killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live…?" Ezek. 13:19

"He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death." Ex.;21:12

"Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.... You shall have the same law for the [foreigner] and for one from your own country; for I am the Lord your God." Lev. 24:17-22

Vengance is the Lords, but the law is the law to be upheld by Who??????

While Paul instructs people not to seek their own revenge, but to "give place to wrath." Paul then explains that the proper channel for wrath is the "governing authorities." The government is the "place" for wrath and vengeance:

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities... For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Rom.;13:1, 3

Godly rulers are a terror to evil doers. Note that God’s two witnesses in Revelation "tormented those who dwell on the earth" (Rev.;11:10).

God through Paul specifically commands earthly governments to execute criminals with the sword:

For [the governing authority] is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Rom.;13:4

"He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." Ex.;21:15

"He who kidnaps a man... shall surely be put to death." Ex.;21:16

"He who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death." Ex.;21:17

"[If an unborn baby is killed] you shall give life for life." Ex.;21:23

181 posted on 04/04/2003 8:54:40 PM PST by LowOiL ("I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me" -Gen. Patton)
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