Today,
reply is on mankind’s
need for fixed carnal, material, social, and spiritual boundaries set
by divinity that include government, law, judgment, and death. Many
forward-looking statements have been provided from divinity to guide
and instruct the living that are in the form of verbal utterances and
not legislation. Included are cautions, covenants, proclamations,
prohibitions, prophecies, promises, sacred law, and testimony. It is
written: Galatians 5: 19-23, KJV: 19 Now the works of the flesh
are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such
like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo!
Answers” forum on Religion & Spirituality who uses the ID
“Anonymous” (no profile information shown) posted the following:
Christian
Question?
Why
are some Christians against the death penalty when the Bible seems to
spell it very clear in terms of society?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: I will walk before the LORD in the
land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was
greatly afflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
What shall I render unto the LORD for all
his benefits toward me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call
upon the name of the LORD. I will pay my vows
unto the LORD now in the presence of all his
people. Precious in the sight of the LORD is
the death of his saints. (Psalms 116: 9-15, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Eternal Judgment With Mercy (11/19/2019); The
Perfection Of Divinity (09/17/2019); The Penalty of Death?
(04/26/2019); Sacred Judges and Laws? (01/23/2017); The Death
Penalty? (10/08/2015); The Death Penalty for Sins? (11/30/2014); A
Dispensation To Benefit (12/01/2014)
“Anonymous”,
many do not understand (and properly respect) the guidance that comes
to Christian believers regarding the divine use of death that
expresses wrath against sin. In the holy writings, death first
appears as a tool used by divine fullness (we say, divinity; the
Godhead; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) during Creation.
The male who was formed using substance from the earth also received
life essence (breath; spirit; word) imparted from the makeup
of GOD. The new relationship of Creator and the created required
that mankind have ability to communicate; have coherence,
completeness and self-will (willpower); have a consciousness of
divinity that would be ongoing and uninterrupted; and that man would
resemble, reflect, and reveal the character and nature of GOD to all
other beings in existence. The creation of a female, who would be
formed using blood and bone taken from the male, required that he
“sleep” (i.e., endure death) throughout the necessary operations
of GOD.
Death
as mortality and separation from the living was introduced as a
sanction within the law(s) provided for government of heaven and
earth, and were presented to Adam (the divine name for the first
pair) in the form of admonition and warning, rather than ordinances
and statutes. The authority and power over the universe (we say,
dominion; ownership; rule) exercised by GOD, who is immortal,
invisible and incorruptible, are to be perpetual and unchanging. The
sanctions were forward-looking statements to describe consequences
for acknowledgment or transgression of agreements, commandments,
covenants, rules, and standards that express divine expectation,
prerogative, eternal purpose, and the sovereign will of GOD.
Consequences and results proclaimed through the statement of law
therefore include examination of the living for their content of
substance imparted from divinity; the loss of dominion by mankind;
the loss of fellowship with divinity; the loss of sacred attributes
by mankind; and the second death.
Sin
has not been created or put forth by divinity; sin opposes the
continued existence of divine order and sacred law, the Lawgiver, and
the platforms of creation; and sin has no divine content or sacred
substance. Even so, sin may dominate awareness and self-will within
the living. Sin promotes nonexistence and return to the conditions
of chaos, confusion, and streams of substance lacking direction (we
say, preexistence) that were in place before GOD imposed divine
order. Where the living become corrupted by the operations of sin,
no longer respond to divine will, and can not be recovered through
fresh endowments of inseparable spirit content from the makeup of
GOD, they display iniquity (are incorrigible), and they must be
eliminated permanently from the divine presence. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Hezekiah Walker:
(1.)
Genesis 9: 5-7, King James Version (KJV):
5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of
every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
every man’s brother will I
require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man’s
blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made
he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth
abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
(2.)
Deuteronomy 21: 18-21, KJV: 18 If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the
voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him,
will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother
lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and
unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of
his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not
obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all
the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so
shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear.
(3.)
Genesis 18: 20-28, KJV: 20 And the LORD
said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because
their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether
they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come
unto me; and if not, I will know. 22 And the men turned their faces
from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the
LORD.
23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the
righteous with the wicked? 24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous
within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for
the fifty righteous that are
therein? 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay
the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as
the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right? 26 And the LORD
said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will
spare all the place for their sakes. 27 And Abraham answered and
said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD,
which am but
dust and ashes: 28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack
of five? And he said, If I find
there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
(4.)
Romans 8: 5-9, KJV: 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is
enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please
God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that
the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of
Christ, he is none of his.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (5.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMcJL_UDAvw.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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