To kill another human being is an indirect attack on God.
Why?
Because we were created in the image of God.
You cannot kill God. So when you take the life of the image of God, you are striking at God himself. In Genesis 9, after the flood, God speaks to Noah and says, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” (Gen 9:6)
If you kill another human being, then you deserve death, because you tried to kill God.
Today we have a major problem with our justice system. We frequently hear of death-row inmates being vindicated by DNA tests.
Some have used this as an argument against the death-penalty. It is not. It is an argument that we should be more careful in our quest for justice.
“Beyond reasonable doubt” is a lousy standard when a man’s life is on the line. You must have ironclad evidence that it was in fact this person who did it. Mistakes will be made–but if we required a higher standard of evidence, we would not kill as many innocent people.
Yes, this means that sometimes the guilty would get away with murder. But if you execute the wrong man, then you–as the jury that convicted him–and as a community that sustains a faulty justice system– are guilty of an innocent man’s blood.
But while God prescribes the death penalty for murder, there is room for leniency....
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