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Subject: Re: Abortion and Capital Punishment
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Re Biblical grounds for capital punishment:

Cain understood it - he feared he would be killed for murdering Abel.
(Gen 4:14)

After the Flood, when God first allows for man to eat flesh, He also
institutes capital punishment. (Gen 9:5,6) This is the standard
reference, for it preceded the Abrahamic, Mosaic, and Christ covenants,
and has not been annulled.

The Law of Moses contains many references to capital crimes. Worthy of
note is that none of the capital crimes were violations of the
*ceremonial* laws - the maximum penalty for that was to be cut off from
the people. The capital crimes were abominations against God Himnself
(contrary to what Boswell/Rizzo says).
-- 
		The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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