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    There's always a number of people out and about who truly believe that Christ wasn't obligated to comply with the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

    Take capital punishment for example. I encounter people all the time who sincerely believe that Christ opposed it. But were Christ to oppose capital punishment, he would incur a curse upon himself.

    †. Deut 27:26 . . Cursed be he who will not uphold the terms of this law and observe them.

    The grammatical tense of that curse is present rather than future, indicating that the curse is instant-- no delay and no waiting period.

    And then there are people who sincerely believe that Christ was a reformer; viz: his brand of religious philosophy was kinder, gentler, and more loving and understanding than the thunder and lightening of the Old Testament's God. But Christ claimed that he and God were unified.

    †. John 6:38 . . I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him who sent me

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    John 8:29 . . He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him.

    †. John 10:30 . . I and my Father are one.

    The ultimate capital punishment pending is the lake of brimstone featured at Rev 20:10-15 wherein people will undergo termination akin to a foundry worker falling into a vat of molten iron. The administrator won't be the Old Testament's thunder and lightening God, no, the administrator of that horrifying scene will be the kinder, gentler, and more loving and understanding Jesus.

    †. John 5:22 . . The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son

    †. Acts 17:31 . . He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by raising him from the dead.

    The Great White Throne event won't be a peaceful scene. People will be literally pale with terror, lips trembling, mouths too dry to speak; screaming, shrieking, bellowing, sobbing and yelping-- eyes darting about looking for something, anything, to clutch and cling to as a force they cannot resist drags them off to capital punishment in a flaming substance where their incinerated remains will be perpetual nourishment for a curious species of fire-proof worm.

    †. Isa 66:23-24 . . All humanity will come to worship Me from week to week and from month to month. And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All who pass by will view them with utter loathing.

    A worm that thrives in brimstone is pretty amazing, but not totally unreasonable. The 4-inch Pompeii worm lives in sea water temperatures of 176° F --hot enough to destroy salmonella and sanitize an egg. So I guess if God could create a worm like the Pompeii, it shouldn't be too difficult for Him to create worms that like it even warmer; and Christ fully approves because he and the Old Testament's God are unified.

    †. John 4:34 . . My food is to do the will of Him who sent me

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    An incident recorded in the 8th chapter of John is sometimes appropriated to suggest that Christ opposes capital punishment. But the incident is actually better appropriated to show that Christ is a stickler for due process.

    Long story short, a woman was brought before Christ accused of adultery; which is normally a mandatory death offense under the terms and conditions of the covenant that Yhvh's people agreed upon with God as per the Old Testament.

    †. Lev 20:10 . . And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

    However; the covenant requires that no one can be given the death penalty without the testimony of at least two witnesses.

    †. Deut 17:6-7 . . At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death. The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

    As it turned out; all the witnesses, to a man, recused themselves, leaving none with which to build a case against the woman.

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