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Originally Posted by SRoper Labeling a person a sex offender is much like a permanent disability inflicted on the individual. I don't think that's necessarily an unjust punishment as there is at least one crime in the OT that is punished by cutting off the offender's hand. | I'm unfamiliar with the hand cut off; can you elaborate? Is that the one where the two guys fight and the wifey steps in to "help"?  | I think so (Deut. 25:11), though I'm not trying to answer SRoper's question. But just a thought: If hand amputation is specifically prescribed as a punishment for one crime, doesn't that exclude it for other crimes, for which it is not prescribed? And -- maybe this is a stretch? -- by analogy, does it mean that crimes without permanent punishment in OT law should not be given permanent punishment under our law? I am not sure. | One of the points that Rutherford (if I'm not mistaken) made about the judicial laws is that they restrain the magistrate, as well as direct him. In other words, the judicials stop the cruelty as well as the false "mercy" that magistrates tend toward without the light of Scripture. For instance, you may not execute a horse thief; 3 or 4-fold restitution is the only just punishment. Anywho, this is one of the basic problem with not accepting the judicials: it leads to tyranny.
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Adam B., Livermore, California
Grace Church of Pleasanton, PCA
He who was punishable by death under the judicial law, is punishable by death still; and he who was not punished by death then, is not to be punished by death now.
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