Knowing what awaits me without the mercy of God, I don't hate even unbelieving democrats not to tell them they can have it as well. Honestly, for a group that loves free things so much, one would think they'd want it twice!
That being said, I, too, am grateful for the quality, and ... consistent ..thoughts you and many of other like minded intelligent individuals post that mesh so helpfully into the quirkiness in my thought processes which allow me to entertain us on occasion.😌🤭👍
Punishment for crimes committed is a form of justice. Justice allows a group of people to coexist at a level above kill or be killed. God is about love and justice, but society is against a theocracy so using "Christianity" to argue against justice? Poorly thought out critique against holding people accountable. We are seeing a group of people that the evidence coming out shows that they committed crimes. That, in a non totalitarian government, requires punishment. You disagree they committed a crime or feel they were justified in committing the crime(s)? This is why they aren't summarily lined up against a wall and playing dodge bullet in a system that wants justice. They still could be if found guilty. Oh, and as a Follower and One that trusts in the saving grace offered by God through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross which will allow me to live in His Presence forever in His Kingdom and thereby being completely absolved from His Justice that I have earned many times over. I am mandated to forgive someone that commits a crime against me but that doesn't absolve them of their crime. Justice is forcing them to pay the debt they accrued against society. God will also hold each of us accountable for the crimes we commit. His punishment is much more final.
Agreed. It was not what God wanted and Satan does use death and the fear of it to silence the believers from sharing the good news. Satan thought he was defeating God's promise by silencing Jesus on the cross. To a lesser extent, he thought he was silencing Charlie Kirk and stopping his influence upon the culture, another miscalculation. He can't defeat God, but he can hurt God's creation, but because of the eternal separation from God our current bodies cannot last forever anyway. I'd prefer to not suffer the loss of family and friends or the innocent at any stage of development. I look at this life, for the believer, as time spent in heaven's womb. Our soul grows, fed by God and His word and when God says, "It's time" we slide into eternity in a body designed to live in the everlasting relationship we were always designed to have.
