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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
Could you share any NT references that instruct us to do so?
We have OT references to stone adulterers but we don't stone adulterers.
There are many instructions to exact punishments in the OT that were not repeated in the NT and that we no longer fulfill.
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We're not a theocratic, nation-state like Israel was. GOD never called for the church to set up a political, national government. We have nothing in the NT that can draw up plans for this sort of system, punishments for crimes, a constitution or anything like that.
Israel had some of these things, and they were supposed to go by the book and stone certain criminals, but the NT doesn't have these things because GOD didn't intend for a Christian theocracy (and perhaps not for Christians to be involved in these forms of government).
-Bro. Alex
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