that governments in New Testament days were justified by the Scriptures in the use of capital punishment. Governments were and are appointed to be executioners of God’s wrath upon the wrong doers. This is not to suggest that Christ was a wrong doer worthy of the capital punishment inflicted upon him, for in all honesty it must be admitted that certain innocent persons have suffered under every penal system — capital punishment or otherwise. This however does not abrogate the necessity of such punishment as deemed necessary by law, for the human element in the execution of the laws of men and God presupposes the possibility of infrequent error. These exceptions only serve to prove the rule.
Capital Punishments
There is a great variety of modes of capital punishment employed throughout the Bible. Some of these modes of punishment were decreed in ordinances of the Pentateuch while others were instituted outside of this authority. Some of these modes of capital punishment are listed below:
Execution by the sword. “… I will kill you with the sword.” (Exodus 22:24 — See also I Kings 2:25,34,46; Acts 12:2; Romans 13:4.)
Execution by burning. “… Both he and she must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.” (Leviticus 20:14 — See also Leviticus 21:9; Jeremiah 29:22; Ezekiel 23:25; Daniel 3:19-23).
Execution by stoning. “Anyone who blasphemes in the name of the Lord must be put to death. The entire assembly must stone him.” (Leviticus 24:15 — See also Leviticus 20:2,27; Numbers 14:10; 15:33-36; Deuteronomy 13:10; 17:5; 22:21,24; Joshua 7:25; I Kings 21:10: Exekiel 16:40)
Execution by hanging. “But he hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.” Genesis 40:22 (See also Joshua 8:29; 10:26; II Samuel 21:9; Ezra 6:11; Esther 7:9,10).
Execution by beheading. “He had John beheaded in prison.” (Genesis 40:22 — See also Mark 6:16,27,28).
Execution by crucifixion. ” When they had crucified him …” (Matthew 27:35 — See also Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:24,27; Luke 23).
It is therefore an established fact that there are at least six modes of execution as a means of capital punishment recorded in the Scriptures, and there are at least twenty crimes listed as deserving of the supreme penalty of the loss of life.
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