This guy was banned from Twitter for this tweet, fuck Twitter
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To be honest, that's one pretty bad take. I find what he says to be quite a contradiction. So he wants you to move past your sin and stop whatever wrong thing you're doing (good) so you can live, but if he finds out what you did, he wants to kill you and stop all your repentance to nothing?
Show me how this is Christian by any mean. Show me where Jesus killed someone for any sin they may have done. Show me why Paul should have been killed, instead of spreading the Word after he saw Jesus' true nature.
I agree. All he is doing is turning people away
Welcome to the end result of the pendulum swinging too far to the left.
Yeah, shit like this is the reason why a lot of people (myself included) have become disenfranchised with organized religion. You have the two-faced preachers like Ted Haggard condemning sin from one corner of his mouth because the other is too busy smoking meth, the opulent megachurches that erect a blazing middle finger to the teachings of their leader, and the prototype for what would become the Social Justice moment.
If they wanted more people to join the flock, the best way would be to live their lives by their teachings and act in a way that would inspire people.
There is an explicit offer of forgiveness in the second part of the tweet. Whether his use of "death penalty" refers to a specific government punishment, or more generally to the "wages of sin" is somewhat ambiguous (it could have been made a bit more clear if he included some "lesser" sins in there like lying/perjury, theft, or covetousness, but I can see why you wouldn't include those on a twitter post.) And if you don't believe that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment, I can find citations from the New Testament that support this as being one of the roles of government.
Irrespective, I find no contradiction between the idea that the proper government penalty for a crime should be death, and that we should offer forgiveness and a second chance to repentant souls.
No it's not, lol
You may never have heard a pastor use the words "death penalty" in reference to the just consequence of sin, but I have (multiple times from multiple pastors.) There is definitely some ambiguity in this usage.