Americas Biblical Government

[1stvermont]

And the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment contradicts the many death sentences mandated by the Bible, including striking or cursing a parent (Exodus 21:15, 17), being a rebellious child (Deuteronomy 21:18-21), adultery with a married woman (Leviticus 20:10), and working on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2).

and what does the 8th sound like? Exodus 21 23-27. The crime shall fit the punishment and the punishment shall not exceed the crime. . If you believe the death penalty was outlawed in early america i suggest you are not ready to talk on this subject. The issues is with what you see as the 8th as contrary to capital punishment that the bible and founders do not. Here is a sermon on the subject from 1848

https://wallbuilders.com/sermon-execution-1848/


This thread should clear up any misconceptions on the bible and capital punishment including the passages you brought up.


Responding to Common Objections to the Bible-OT Death Penalty Laws and Similar Objections
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-OT-Death-Penalty-Laws-and-Similar-Objections

 

[Sonny Tufts]

The crime shall fit the punishment and the punishment shall not exceed the crime.

Indeed. And do you believe that working on the Sabbath deserves death? Or that death is a fitting punishment for being a rebellious child?

If you believe the death penalty was outlawed in early america i suggest you are not ready to talk on this subject.

I suggest you take a remedial reading course. Nothing I posted even remotely suggests that I'm against capital punishment or that the 8th Amendment prohibits it in all instances. The point was that the biblical admonition to kill for the specific offenses I mentioned would violate the 8th Amendment, so that the Constitution is hardly biblical.

 

[1stvermont]

Indeed. And do you believe that working on the Sabbath deserves death? Or that death is a fitting punishment for being a rebellious child?



I suggest you take a remedial reading course. Nothing I posted even remotely suggests that I'm against capital punishment or that the 8th Amendment prohibits it in all instances. The point was that the biblical admonition to kill for the specific offenses I mentioned would violate the 8th Amendment, so that the Constitution is hardly biblical.

i would rather suggest you have misunderstood the bible and its laws. please read here

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-OT-Death-Penalty-Laws-and-Similar-Objections


Understand the biblical worldview and the early america one of morals and right and wrong in many ways differs from our modern liberal view.