Matthew 16:26 (KJV) “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
I believe the connotation is that a man’s soul is more important than all the riches of the world. The question was “What will a man exchange for”, and put in what ever subject one wants.
So then I ask; why would a truly in Christ, in the body of Christ, a sealed believer support capital punishment? Is not any persons eternal destination worth keeping open until God puts it to an end. Let's take Jeffery Dahmer, the Milwaukee Cannibal. Sure what he did was horrific, no excuse, but was his life of so little value that the death sentence should have been given. Does not that one on death row needs the opportunity to come to Christ. What is the cost in relation to the curse of eternal separation from God for all eternity?
Don’t confuse the issue, lock them up till they die in confinement of natural causes, sure its a drain on society. But compared to eternity is it all that long? I’m not condoning letting them off, but when executed its over for ever. What does that say of those of us who are in Christ? Does it not say that we think we are more than they? That we deserved salvation but they deserve eternal separation from God.
God is surely merciful to mankind in that we are unable to comprehend eternity. If a pear could understand eternity, comprehend no end, truly that would scare one most possibly to death. So if that was the case would that then be believing God and taking Him at His Word? That wouldn’t be salvation by grace but by fear.
But we fellow Christians are most negligent in that we by faith do know and remain mostly quite, shame on us. Could that lack of testifying as Paul showed: “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” 2 Corinthians 5:18-19, be one of our judgements spoken of in: “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10, I think so.
Sidebar: In that passage 2 Corinthians 5:10, try reading apart from the italics. “For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ; that everyone man receive the things in body, according to that he hath done, whether good or bad.” That word “body is multi-faceted; Strong’s #4983. Where it speaks this: “(IV) Spoken figuratively for a body, meaning whole, aggregate, collective mass, as spoken of the Christian Church, the whole body of Christians collectively, of which Christ is the head.” Is then what I give a possibility as to the “body” being such?
One will have to make up their own minds: “ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:12-13. “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
Galatians 6:10. Keep professing the Gospel that men may come to God, Jesus for life. What is that gospel? “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
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