To: xzins
If Christ was against the death penalty, why didn't He stop His?
6 posted on
12/15/2004 2:30:34 PM PST by
Sybeck1
("gun control is when you hit what you shoot at")
To: Sybeck1
"If no crime deserves the death penalty, then it is hard to see why it was fitting that Christ be put to death for our sins and crucified among thieves. St. Thomas Aquinas quotes a gloss of St. Jerome on Matthew 27: As Christ became accursed of the cross for us, for our salvation He was crucified as a guilty one among the guilty. That Christ be put to death as a guilty person, presupposes that death is a fitting punishment for those who are guilty." Prof. Michael Pakaluk, The Death Penalty: An Opposing Viewpoints Series Book, Greenhaven Press, (hereafter TDP:OVS), 1991
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