For this reason, Creach justifies violence as a tool for God’s purpose alone. “If Scripture declared only that God shows compassion but did not also declare that God is involved in vengeance, it would then portray God as inept in expressing compassion in concrete ways.” While it may seem as if God’s nature of vengeance is contradictory to His nature of compassion, the two qualities actually go hand in hand. “God acts destructively in order to restore or preserve the order God intends; that means, then, that such activity is God’s exclusive prerogative. Human violence is rendered inappropriate.” Capital punishment gives humans the right to determine whether or not someone deserves death, when God would rather have a change in heart than a change
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Such a phrase should not be used as a copout to separate the sinner from the sin. The dichotomy of whether it is the Christian’s duty to evangelize and transform evil or give up on a hope for transformation and instead turn to eradication of the issue is displayed through both the extermination of foreign wives in Ezra 10 as well as the point of the death penalty today. If a felon has committed a heinous enough crime to be sentenced to death row, this person certainly has not accepted the guidance of the Holy Spirit that leads to the eternal salvation of following Jesus Christ. Therefore, would the person who executes this criminal guarantee that this unsaved soul is damned to Hell? Or, could it be as Creach implies that there is an opportunity after death to respond to God’s call to faithfulness? Perhaps there is some truth in the statement that John Coffey makes in the novel The Green Mile when he says, “Sometimes there is absolutely no difference between salvation and
Such a phrase should not be used as a copout to separate the sinner from the sin. The dichotomy of whether it is the Christian’s duty to evangelize and transform evil or give up on a hope for transformation and instead turn to eradication of the issue is displayed through both the extermination of foreign wives in Ezra 10 as well as the point of the death penalty today. If a felon has committed a heinous enough crime to be sentenced to death row, this person certainly has not accepted the guidance of the Holy Spirit that leads to the eternal salvation of following Jesus Christ. Therefore, would the person who executes this criminal guarantee that this unsaved soul is damned to Hell? Or, could it be as Creach implies that there is an opportunity after death to respond to God’s call to faithfulness? Perhaps there is some truth in the statement that John Coffey makes in the novel The Green Mile when he says, “Sometimes there is absolutely no difference between salvation and