Created to do Good Works

In my opinion, no one should be convicted of capital punishment, because they still have a purpose after committing crimes. I believe everyone has a cause and who am I to say they have already fulfilled that purpose.

In the Bible, God used murderers. Exodus 2:11,12 says, “One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.” (NIV)

At 40 years old, Moses killed someone, but his life wasn’t over. He went on to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, then guide them through the wilderness for 40 years. Moses became a patriarch of the Christian faith, appearing at Jesus transfiguration (Mark 9:4).

King David had a similar story. In 2 Samuel, Nathan the prophet rebukes David saying in 12:9, “Why did you despise the word of the Lord by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.” (NIV)

King David orchestrated the murder of the husband of the woman he committed adultery with, but God didn’t relinquish his title…