The death penalty (justly delivered) IS pro-life.
1) To be Biblically pro-life is not to be against the taking of ANY life, but against the taking of INNOCENT life.
The Bible differentiates between “murder” (the taking of innocent life) and “killing” (the taking of any life).
It forbids murder, but sometimes COMMANDS and ALLOWS killing (just war, self-defense, death penalty).
This is why the 6th Commandment is “You shall not murder”, not “You shall not kill.” (Two different Hebrew words)
This is reaffirmed in the New Testament when Romans 13 says one role of the government is to “bear the sword” (referring to the death penalty).
2) The death penalty is extremely pro-life as it is the just consequence for murder in the Bible.
It’s practical purpose is to remove people from earth who have shown they will take innocent life, and serve as an intentionally-terrifying deterrent to onlookers, so they will never consider murder.
This is a grave thing to say, but Biblically, one reason we have so much murder is BECAUSE we don’t have enough death penalty.
On the contrary, I am for the death penalty for the same reason I’m against abortion: I value innocent life.
In Genesis 9:6, which is pre-Israel and pre-law, God demands the death penalty for murder, and He roots the command in a reason that is still true today: man is made in His image.
It is because humans are so uniquely valuable that God says the only proportionate punishment for murdering one of us is death. It is out of his great love and care for people—not cruelty—that God gives this dictate.
Even if one disagrees with the death penalty being applied in America today, saying that it is “not pro-life” is calling God not pro-life, since, at the very least, He commanded it in the Old Testament. (Romans 13 also gives the government this authority). He doesn’t change or evolve; He was just as just then as He is today.
Remember, Christian, we are not nicer than God. The most loving thing we can always do is agree with Him.
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