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.
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.
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.