MC: “Similarly, I don’t understand how someone can have the Holy Spirit dwelling within him and support the death penalty.”
Because they are two completely different things. Abortion is murder. The death penalty is not. Does that help you understand?
Because they are two completely different things. Abortion is murder. The death penalty is not.
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It really comes down to accountability. Capital punishment is a result of what one has done (crime). The thought, the decision, the action to carry out the crime. Capital punishment can be found in the old testatment and were part of God’s laws.
For a child in the womb, no crime has done by the child. The child cannot have a though process or commit an action to warrant a crime. In essense, the child is under the age of accountability.
It really comes down to accountability. Babies don’t have it yet.