So your solution is to propose (or defend) a less trustworthy court system?Which would be fine, of course, if the court system could be trusted.
The biblical standard is not reasonable doubt but reasonable evidence. The reasonable doubt standard, along with trial by committee, is what has given us tens of thousands of murder victims every year for the last several decades (in the U.S. alone).Death for perjury in a capital case would be very serious to someone who told the truth and then three people were bribed to testify he was not telling the truth. No lie detector is infallible, and death penalty cases should only exist for cases proven beyond all shadow of a doubt...not just one witness' sworn testimony.
And no one is convicted on the testimony of a single witness. The very same chapter (one single verse prior actually) that gives the law which you are arguing against gives a direct answer to your exact argument.
Deuteronomy 19:15 “One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.
As I've said before, the biblical criminal justice system would not create a panacea but rather it is simply the best possible system.
Beyond the pale?That's why these calls for the death penalty for moral crimes are so beyond the pale.
Do you know where that expression comes from? It is a shortened version of, "Beyond the pale of orthodoxy." and it was used to refer to heresy - doctrinal heresy.
I have proposed nothing here that doesn't come straight out of God's own mouth via the pages of His word as written down by Moses.
No business? According to who, you?There are those who are too quick to call for vengeance for offenses that have no business being decided by the criminal justice system.
Is it your position that when God said to execute murderers, adulterers, rapists, kidnappers and sexual perverts that He was unjust for doing so?
Is that really what you are suggesting?
"Will you profane Me among My people...., killing people who should not die, and keeping people alive who should not live..." Ezekiel 13:19
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