Shalom, I'm not arguing about the current system.
As for eyewitnesses, God's way avoids the problem you mentioned of lying eyewitnesses. Gods word says the eyewitnesses are the ones who should be cross examined, independently of each other, and that their testimony should only be accepted if it agrees. If any of the eyewitnesses is lying, his or her testimony would be shown to be untrue.
"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." -One of the Ten Commandments.
Read more about it in Deut. 19:16-20. The penalty for being a false witness is made clear in those verses. In the case of one who bore false witness against someone accused of murder, the false witness would be subject to the death penalty.
The multitude of doctrines in our justice system that "justify" a system of justice that dilutes and frustrates and corrupts the purpose and perfect design of God's law is, (and I'm trying to be polite) a whited sepulchre.
If those who enforce the law, loved God's law, so much that they meditated on it day and night, as the psalmist says (119:97), we would have no need for prisons. The murder rate would drop drastically.
It is a relatively moot point, Shalom, because the den of iniquity that this whole world is will only be cleaned up after Jesus returns.
John |
