Here's a quick thought: Murderers wrote our Bible.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (and Job?) by Moses who killed an egyptian (that's why he ran away from egypt and ended up having the burning bush experience 40 years later)
most of Psalms by David who killed Uriah (Husband of Bathsheba)
Romans, 1&2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1&2 Thessalonians, 1&2 Timothy, Titus and Philemon (maybe Hebrews) by Paul who participated in the killing of Stephen the firsty Martyr as well as many other early christians.
So thats up to 21 of the 66 books of the Bible, and those are the big ones too. There may be more, I'm not a scholar on Obadiah's life, if you know what I mean.
what does this say about God's forgiveness?
What does this say about capital punishment?
in 1 John 3 it says we know that murderers do not have the spirit of God...but these guys obviously did, so I'd propose to call them ex-murderers. What is more true about them is that they are redeemed by Jesus' sacrifice, just like me, I'm an ex-idolater (putting stuff before God) God thinks its out of character for me when I do something like that.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
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