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To: gerard mangiardi who wrote (365455)	3/3/2003 2:40:29 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

But you said that even though Christians shouldn't seek punishment (its Gods job) they should obey a government that does because the govenments power is derived from God. Indeed. I should not seek revenge for one who has wronged me because God Himself will avenge me far better than I could. God often uses civil governments as His avengers, as the Scriptures declare in Romans 13. In a democracy [government gets its power] from the governed. Well. The fact is, nothing on earth is powered of its own. It all is powered by God. Even so, should someone wrong me and I do not take revenge, I do a good thing. But should I support the civil government's desire to mete out justice in my case, this, to preserve civil order, that is also good because (as you have learned) God uses civil governments to avenge evil. There is a contradiction here that you don't want to address. There is absolutely no contradiction at all. You simply have had your fantasy erased that Christians are being unChristian for supporting the death penalty, and now you are hurting because you see that you are wrong and have been wrong for so long.