Q for those who support the death penalty for adultery

It would have to be a nation-state called Islamia. Hinduismia or Judaistia, because in Christianity, there is no death penalty for adultery.

The goal of Christianity is repentance, not punishment.

High morals of Christianity and worldy governments/laws do not fit well. The goal of Christianity is to put the highest moral standards before us, to forgive us them and to make us better.
The goal of government/laws is to force, pusnish and imprison people who break laws. Not forgiving.

So, it was always a bad thing in history when a wordly government made Christian high morals to be physically punished crimes. People were suffering instead of spiritually evolving. Christianity is not "of this world".

I think we will all need a protest against the governors of Christiania in that case. Lest we get another dark age.
Short answer to your question: No.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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For them who have no sin, cast the first stone.

You can not be a Christian if you do not forgive adultery as Jesus told us to forgive adultery.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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Adultery was punished in the nation God had set up and was for their benefit. It was not for the world and secular peoples. So, let's say your county of Christiania had 100% believers in it, and existed in this day and age..the rule Jesus gave us is love and compassion and forgivness. He also judges us, and corrects us as needed. He also said our kingdom is NOT of this world!

In reality if we had some little county or country set up as a real Christian place, it would be destroyed probably by the world! So we can't really have such a thing until Jesus returns and takes over the world.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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Welcome to the forum.
Who would be ruling this Christiania place?
Jesus?
No?
Then there can be no such place.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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That wouldn't be a Christian community from the get go, maybe in name only but certainly not in reality. So you wouldn't find me living there much less able to judge my neighbor.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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No, because I'd know that that particular nation-state wasn't fully Christianized.

Sure, I can go with the notion that there is some place for the death-penalty, but even Paul the Apostle tempered that notion when he used the very language of the death-penalty in the Old Testament to instead support the temporary ex-communication of a person from the local church.

Thus, in a more fully Christianized society where grace, mercy, empathy and compassion have to play into the overall social equation, there may be ostracism (or ex-communication) for matters of moral misconduct, but the death-penalty would only be used for the most extreme instances of social disruption, like serial rape or murder, or for various heinous manifestations of organized crime.

From the start it goes against the word of God. Christian nation.. Christian.. where dultery is punishable by death? Like I said.. this goes against the word of God. Since the LAW of the land is not biblical in this case.. might as well head on over to IRAN find some Christian family.. now what you gonna do? LIE? Report them?

The number of posts in this thread which refuse to even accept the premise, much less answer the question directly, is a bit surprising.

Although, in some ways maybe it isn't.

Anyway. No. I wouldn't report a family member to the authorities for committing adultery. I'm not sure what good it would do anyway since eyewitness testimony probably wouldn't exist and it's unlikely much other evidence would be available either.

If it was based on the Jewish Law there is little point in reporting it unless you actually saw it occurring and were with someone else at the time. It required 2 eye witnesses.

Also one would be foolish to make claims of a crime they were not 100% sure about considering the penalty for bearing false witness.

bible_follower said:

Let’s say that there existed a Godly, well run , just Christian nation-state called Christiania and that you lived there with your family. Also, adultery is punishable by death in Christiania. Would you ever report a family member if you knew for a fact that they were committing adultery?

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Yeah, if the family member were my wife.

thecolorsblend said:

The number of posts in this thread which refuse to even accept the premise, much less answer the question directly, is a bit surprising.

Although, in some ways maybe it isn't.

Anyway. No. I wouldn't report a family member to the authorities for committing adultery. I'm not sure what good it would do anyway since eyewitness testimony probably wouldn't exist and it's unlikely much other evidence would be available either.

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I was rather happy to find that the other members wouldn't even accept the premise.

Here's why I didn't:
It would never work.
Reason: The Sin Nature in man.
We seem to mess everything up.
Even we Christians.

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I wouldn't begrudge any cheated partner for reporting their spouse in such a nation.

thecolorsblend said:

I thought it was intellectual cowardice myself but I guess there's no accounting for taste.

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That's fer sher!

Ignatius the Kiwi said:

I wouldn't begrudge any cheated partner for reporting their spouse in such a nation.

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Do you know George Orwell?
Your answer means you love the state more than your friend.

Adultery is an offense, although not a capital one, under the UCMJ.

People in the service, as a rule, do not rat out other members for adultery...

GodsGrace101 said:

Do you know George Orwell?
Your answer means you love the state more than your friend.

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What does George Orwell have to do with anything? What friend are you talking about?

Ignatius the Kiwi said:

What does George Orwell have to do with anything? What friend are you talking about?

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Je ne sais pas.