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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  God disapproves of vigilante vengeance. God doesn't disapprove of civil magistrate vengeance. In fact, in the OT, God places the land under a curse of murder goes unpunished. | Yes,Like this;Numbers35 Quote:
30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
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Hope Reformed Baptist Church:
Medford, N.Y.
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