Then you use three paragraphs to do just that. Historical context doesn’t stand with those who claim to follow Christ. No where in the New Testament is the execution of even a heretic justified. The very fact that those executions were practiced and even decreed by the Catholic Church tells me the sincerity of following Christ. The question arises that if one is filled with the Holy Spirit can a policy like that even be allowed to exist in the church being completely contrary to the New Testament.
I think this is a very important point. Could we ever imagine Jesus or his Apostles executing heretics? Saul certainly executed those he believed were heretics against the Jewish religion, but not once he was saved and became Paul. Quite a bit of the justification for such actions in the past were done because they considered anyone who drew away someone from the truth of the Gospel, was committing a type of "spiritual" murder of men's souls. This, to me, showed a serious lack of confidence in the works of the Holy Spirit in the hearts and minds of those who followed the truth.
Rather, I believe we must rebuke and correct wrong doctrine by using THE authority for truth that God has provided for us. No, it's NOT the "Church" which may or may not be at any given time in the control of Holy Spirit led believers, but by the infallible Holy Scriptures which are God-breathed by which the Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. Jesus said, "Thy word is truth." (John 17:17)