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The Death Penalty — Civic Purposes

Equal justice is still justice, moral pollution is still moral pollution, deterrence is still needed, nations still need God’s mercy. Continue reading

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Condemnation, Why and for What?

The reason unbelievers go to Hell is not the sins they have committed. Continue reading

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Super-Prison Coming

We torture victims by our cowardice in failing to carry justice through fully. Continue reading

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Punishment, Barbarism, the god of This World, and the Gospel

Matters of justice are not a mere political battle. They are about the nature of God and about the Gospel. Continue reading

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One of the Costs of Ignoring Sin Nature

The vast majority of individuals, no matter what their socio-economic background, do not have a rap sheet 50 items long. Even if most of a person’s crimes weren’t that “serious”, that kind of criminal record reveals a person’s total disregard for law and their fellow-man. The worst offenders are people who have chosen a life of evil, of theft, of violence, and no one is stopping them. There is nothing complicated about evil. It’s what people do if there is neither internal self-discipline nor external restraint to stop them. Continue reading

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