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"Thou shall not kill". I know they were just doing their jobs. I know that the criminals probably deserved to die. It is still a violation of the 6th commandment.
Same goes for the guy who shot Osama Bin Laden. He was following orders, and Osama surely had it coming. Still a sin.
Sometimes we have to choose the lesser of two evils. Allowing terrorists to run around unpunished would be a greater evil than killing them. It doesn't change the fact that killing the terrorist is a sin that requires repentance.
Just wanted to ask what you all think about that. Would God look favorably upon them?
There is a Bible Rule: DO NOT KILL. But does it apply only to murder or to killing in the war and executing people?
Some think it's ok and some think that God will consider that a sin (war killing and executing people). And if you sin, the only way to go to heaven is to repent.
But "repent" doesn't mean "saying the words". Repent means to truly feel remorse about your actions. So from this perspective, IF it was a sin in the first place, and those people came to believe that and started to feel truly sorry, God could forgive them and take them to heaven.
But maybe it's not a sin.... Or maybe those people don't believe that it's a sin, so they wouldn't feel remorseful...(and from a certain perspective then they won't repent and won't go to heaven)
Heaven doesn't exist just because people want it to or because someone claims it does. So I would not expect executioners to have an easier or harder time than the next person. In fact I would go so far as to say they will have as easy of a time as I will coping with oblivion.
It may be that you expect to go to heaven and are troubled at the prospect of sharing it with executioners. A version of that was problematic with the evangelical crowd that I came of age with. One time a guest speaker was invited to speak to the student body of the Bible Institute I attended, in a chapel service. He ran an inner city ministry of some kind and so was more "street" than most in our crowd, despite being quite old. He said many of us would be surprised and perhaps dismayed at the people who we will find to be in heaven when we get there. Presbyterians, Methodists, even some Catholics. You should have seen the president of the school squirm in his seat on the stage -- no doubt anxious about the slippery slope towards the sin of ecumenism that the speaker's view entailed. That guy was never invited back, I can assure you.
Just wanted to ask what you all think about that. Would God look favorably upon them?
Does God look favorably upon the people who are pro-death penalty?
In this country the guy who flips the switch does it because of capital punishment statutes/laws. Two years ago California voters voted against a measure that would have repealed capital punishment. Can those voters go to heaven?
And, yes, I believe people who hold a job to carry out a lawful endeavor have just as much chance of going to Heaven as anyone else. Repent? I don't think those people that are doing evil deeds can truly ever be sorry with their heart, maybe in their head but that won't get the job done. They can chant holy words until the cows come home but it will amount to nothing.
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