I have hidden Thy word in my heart.
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Exodus 21. “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death. However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate. But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death” (Verses 12-14). This entire Chapter is God’s section on how to punish crimes of offense and defense. It starts in verse 1 and goes to the end of the chapter. My advice read it. After you read it ask yourself these questions. If people were punished according to God’s guidelines, would crime be the way it is today? Would people still see life as not valuable if their life was the payment for taking another’s? If we lived life God’s way would we be afraid to let our children play outside or go to public school? The world isn’t in distress because God didn’t manage properly. The world is in distress because we didn’t obey.