It's gray out there...

Someone recently asked me about what I think about the death penalty -- I haven't thought about the death penalty for a while, but I think there are at least a few reasons why I have not been totally opposed to it 1) People that get the death penalty know beforehand that their crime is a crime that will be punished - if death is the punishment, and they commited the crime knowing that they could be sentence to death... 2) Death row inmantes have time to repent (they have a lot of time on death row to get right with God). 3) I've heard that places that have the death penalty have a much lower crime rate... if the citizens know that they could be sentenced to death for their crimes, and as a result they do crime less, that seems like a pretty smart system to me.

However, because our judges aren't omniscient like the True Judge (God), I'm not crazy about the idea that there are innocent people who get sentenced to death sometimes. SO, I'm not crazy about it, but not against it either...

I have a feeling that if you brought this issue up with Jesus, just like the issue of war and any other gray area, he'd tell us to not divide over this issue, but come together on spreading the good news!