Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to […]
Posts Tagged ‘capital punishment’
“Redeeming” Christ From Those Who Would Make Him a Sinner, Pt. 2
Posted: 1st October 2015 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: adultery, antinomians, capital punishment, clean hands doctrine, commandments statutes and judgments, death penalty, John 8, kingdom, pronomians, two or more witnesses, woman caught in adultery
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19) Even if your theology does not recognize the kingdom as […]
Swallowing Camels… Pt. 10
Posted: 5th July 2013 by Ted Weiland in UncategorizedTags: Amendment 8, Bible's civil judgments, capital punishment, constitution, cruel and unusual punishment, death penalty, humanism, living document, righteous judgments, stoining, Supreme Court
In this concluding article, I address another of the Constitution’s more serious “camels”—which Christians should be choking on instead of swallowing. Amendment 8’s Denunciation of Cruel and Unusual Punishments Amendment 8 prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. But what did the framers mean by “cruel and unusual”? No one knows because the framers never defined this […]