1. Capital Punishment
It has also been argued that Jesus was against capital punishment in the book of John when he did not call for the stoning of the woman caught in adultery. Yet, by saying " He who is without sin cast the first stone", he adjoined a conflict between the Roman law, and the Mosaic Law. If he had said to stone her he would have broken the Roman law. If he refused to allow them to stone her he would have broken the Mosaic Law. Because he did not teach that stoning was wrong it is not an abolition of the death penalty. ...
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