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Was all of the Law done away with in Christ, Rom. 10:4 Bible
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I want to tell you that I was tempted to title this teaching “Understanding Torah.” “Torah” is normally translated “Law,” and sometimes in English it is pronounced Torah, but the more proper Hebrew pronunciation is Torah. Understanding Torah or understanding what we normally say is Law, should really be translated as instruction. You will see where we are going as we get into this teaching.
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What does the Bible [God's Word] say about war?
(1885 Reads)
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I know some Christians who say they are “pacifists,” and that war is always wrong. Some go so far as to say they would not defend themselves even if someone tried to kill them. One called me a “militant” Christian because I said I would. What does the Bible say about war?
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Watch a Teaching on Moses & Mt Sinai [The giving of the Ten Commandments]
(1010 Reads)
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The following video has been converted from VHS format.
Moses & Mt. Sinai (About the Ten Commandments)
It is a low quality recording of our Free Indeed series taught by John Schoenheit.
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Watch a six part Bible-study video series on The Old Testament [Civil] Law
(1671 Reads)
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The following videos have been converted from VHS format.
The Old Testament (Civil) Law (Parts 1-6)
They are low quality recordings of our Free Indeed series taught by John Schoenheit.
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Bible study Romans 13 Bible and Civil Law. How God intended Government...
(8952 Reads)
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[This is an edited transcription of our Mar/Apr 1990 audio tape, “The Bible and Civil Law” by John W. Schoenheit.]
There certainly is a need in today’s society for an understanding of how to properly order a society so that it can be a godly society where people can live a peaceable life and a profitable life. There is a large criminal element in our society and a lack of...
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The Ten Commandments. How they are relevant to us and the New Testament.
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This is an edited transcription of our very popular audio teaching on The Ten Commandments by John Schoenheit. We hope this article will become one of your all time favorites because of how it covers so many practical issues and helps to clear up and address many difficult subjects.
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Booklet: The Death Penalty. Shows how God commands it for violent crimes
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This booklet also explains the verses that are often used against the death penalty, such as "turn the other cheek" and "overcome evil with good." It shows that the Bible has a consistent message from Genesis to Revelation-the death penalty is part of God's solution to the problem of evil.
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Bible verses used to say the Death Penalty is wrong. Matt. 7:1, Luke 6:29...
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Through the years many people have tried to prove that the Death Penalty is wrong by using the Bible, especially the New Testament. Sister Helen Prejean, author of the book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, is a chief proponent of this idea. In her arguments, she has used some of the verses listed in this article.
Click on the verses in this article to see why they do not actually support this idea.
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Ratsach, Hebrew word mistranslated kill in Sixth Commandment, Bible study
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The most common reason why people believe the Bible does not support the death penalty is because the King James Version and the versions of the Bible read by most Roman Catholics give the Sixth commandment in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 as, “Thou shalt not kill.” The Hebrew word translated “kill” in the Sixth Commandment is ratsach, and it can mean “kill” or “slay,” either on purpose or accidentally.
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Genesis 9:6 The Death Penalty is man's responsibility to enforce. Per the Bible
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A man does have the right, and even the responsibility, to execute murderers. God gave us that right and responsibility, and He will not “take it back” just because it is distasteful to us. God gave man the wisdom and ability to take care of his own society and its problems. People today are busy and overburdened, yet God is not running around among us mowing lawns, fixing broken appliances in the home, driving the kids around from place to place, and people do not expect Him to.
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Exodus 21:12-14 The Bible [God] says a murderer is to get the death penalty
(3619 Reads)
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We have now seen that the five books of Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy, all prescribe the death penalty. It should be abundantly clear that anyone who reasons that the Bible does not support the death penalty because a few translations say, “You shall not kill,” is misunderstanding and misapplying Scripture.
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God says a kidnapper gets the death penalty Exodus 21:16 Deuteronomy 24:7
(2001 Reads)
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Murder is not the only crime that God commands be punished by the death penalty. God also commanded that kidnappers should be executed. The psychological and often physical damage done to individuals who are kidnapped, and the terror and grief to families, friends and communities of the one kidnapped, is well documented.
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What God [the Bible] says about perjury - Deuteronomy 19:16, 19 and 21
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History reveals that when an innocent man is given the death penalty, perjury is often involved. Furthermore, a study of the cases in which a “guilty” person was later found to be innocent shows that, to get the conviction, evidence was often withheld or tampered with, or witnesses lied.
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God's [Bible's] view on the reckless disregard for human life. Exodus 21:28-29
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It is important to realize that the examples God uses in the Bible are to be a guide to help us understand what His justice is and how to administer it. There is no way God could write out specific laws for every circumstance, so He gave us examples to learn from. This is actually clear in the word Torah itself.
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Death penalty, capital punishment: Does Bible / New Testament support it
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It is clear that the Apostle Paul did not consider the death penalty an ungodly thing. When he was on trial for supposedly causing riots across the Roman world (Acts 24:5), he made the following statement: “If I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I refuse not to die” (Acts 25:11). It can hardly be imagined that Paul would say such a thing to a Roman governor if in his heart he felt the death penalty was wrong.
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The death penalty and 1 Samuel 26:8-11 Touch not the Lord’s anointed
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Understanding 1 Samuel 26:8-11...
1 Samuel 26:8-11 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(Touch not the Lord’s anointed)
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The death penalty and Matthew 7:1 Do not judge, or you too will be judged
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Matthew 7:1 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(Do not judge, or you too will be judged.)
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The death penalty and Luke 6:29 If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn...
(2861 Reads)
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Luke 6:29 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn the other to him.)
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The death penalty and Matthew 26:52 Put your sword back in its place. All who
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Matthew 26:52 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.)
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The death penalty and John 8:1-11 The record of the woman caught in adultery
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John 8:1-11 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(The record of the woman caught in adultery.)
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The death penalty and Romans 12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome
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Romans 12:21 has often been misused in an attempt to say that God and the Bible are against the death penalty.
(Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.)
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How can the death penalty be love if we are to love our enemies Matthew 5:44
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We are not loving God or people if we refuse to justly deal with criminals who will harm others. It is not loving people to allow an unsafe society to continue simply because we find it difficult to obey God’s laws. We are not really being loving if we allow murderers to go unpunished. The Bible says if there is no godly punishment of the wicked, then people who would not otherwise sin may be led into temptation, and that is clearly true. Just and quick punishments are a deterrent to evil behavior.
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Biblical examples of godly men like Moses who carried out the death penalty
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In Leviticus 24:10-23, Moses oversaw the execution of a man who had blasphemed. In Numbers 15:32-36, a man was executed for violating the Sabbath. In Exodus 32:25-29 and Numbers 25:1-15, people were executed for idolatry, etc.
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Is it ever ok for Christians to take the death penalty into their own hands?
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Christians are to obey the laws of the land, and other people become distrusting of them when they do not. A good example is those who say they are Christians and kill abortion doctors or bomb abortion clinics. Christians should be the most trustworthy of people, yet society as a whole is suspicious of them because of the few who break the law and some others who then hail these people as some kind of heroes.
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Bible study: Verses that support killing in self-defense, personal national war
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The Bible does allow for killing in self-defense. In a sense, there are different kinds of self-defense. There is personal self-defense, self-defense of the society (“social self-defense”) and there is national self-defense, which we call “war.” In all of these cases, the taking of another human life is allowed for by God.
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Old Testament Biblical verses capital crimes, offenses: murder, kidnapping
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The Christian needs to take to heart the fact that all the commandments of God are important and none of them should be taken lightly. God created people, and the Old Testament Law was His wisdom as to how ancient Israel should be run as a society. There is a tendency today to either ignore the Laws we think are outmoded or offensive, or worse, to try to use them to “prove” that the Bible is not a good or godly book but instead the writing of a few prejudiced people.
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Further study on Civil Government [books, audio teachings, and videos]
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For further study on Civil Government, we recommend the following items...
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Bible Study of Romans 12:17-13:7 Civil Government: God's Design for Justice
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Ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, peace, justice, and security have been very scarce upon this earth. Adam and Eve had not been out of Eden for long when “Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him” (Gen. 4:8). Six thousand years later, this earth is still a very dangerous place.
Is peace and justice now impossible?
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