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 Does Jesus Agree with the Death Penalty ?

The question isn't what you think or what I think. The question is: what does Jesus Christ think ? The reason that Christians cannot go along with the death penalty is that we claim to be the followers of someone who did not go along with the death penalty. Instead, he let himself be executed as the substitute for all of us whose sins have earned us the death penalty, because the wages of sin is death. (Rom 6.23) I won't argue that this is the clear teaching of Jesus Christ. But it was the clear teaching of Jesus Christ before the apostate church of the Roman Empire did its best to obscure this and other early Christian beliefs.