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To: P-Marlowe; ColdWater

P-M don’t be surprised if you asked whether you support stoning those who desecrate the Sabbath.


337 posted on 04/07/2010 9:48:48 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; ColdWater; xzins
P-M don’t be surprised if you asked whether you support stoning those who desecrate the Sabbath.

I would support stoning people who jaywalk. If that were the punishment, I don't think we'd see a lot of people crossing the middle of the street.

I doubt very seriously if many people were ever convicted of that crime and stoned to death for the reason that (because of the severe threatened penalty) most people were happy to obey the law.

Additionally based on the rigorous testimonial requirements in the Old Testament, obtaining a conviction for such a crime would be very difficult to obtain. The procedures for carrying out a death penalty were very onerous on the Judges and the rules for testimony required the uncontradicted testimony of several witnesses. If one man's testimony contradicted another man's testimony, the testimony of both would be thrown out.

FWIW, there were about 50 violations of those procedures that occurred in the various trials of Jesus. If they had followed their own laws, they would not have been able to convict Jesus and sentence him to death.

For instance Jesus did not argue that the woman who committed adultery should not have been stoned. But for the mob to stone her would have violated the Law as much, if not more than the adultery itself. Indeed, anyone who would have thrown a stone would have been guilty of murder, since the woman had not been tried under the law, but she was being dragged off to be stoned by a vigilante mob.

338 posted on 04/07/2010 10:01:21 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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