Saturday, September 24, 2011
Jesus wasn't a Southern Baptist
And would probably abjure most of what those poor benighted souls believe. As if to emphasize that point, Albert Mohler a leading SoBap theologian has put forth a cutious idea regarding capitol punishment.
A Southern Baptist seminary president says that according to the Bible, capital punishment is pro-life. “The death penalty is not about retribution,” Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, said in a podcast Sept. 22. “It is first of all about underlining the importance of every single human life.”Despite these remarks being prompted by the uproar over Troy Davis, Mohler never addressed the question of how execution squares with an innocent man. I do not know if Troy Davis was innocent but from what little was made public in the MSM, there was more than room enough for a reasonable doubt. I would like to hear Mohler's position on the death penalty when the question of guilt is not certain.
Mohler, who has a Ph.D. in theology, said in Genesis 9, where capital punishment is mandated for murder, “it is precisely because the taking of one human life by another means that the murderer has effectively, morally and theologically, forfeited his own right to live.” “The death penalty is intended to affirm the value [and] sanctity of every single human life, and thus by the extremity of the penalty to make that visible and apparent to all,” Mohler said.
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