Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?

[Greatest I am]

Is God’s justice close to an eye for an eye?

There are many references in scripture that indicate that an eye for an eye is good justice. This notion that a penalty should fit the crime has even been adopted by most legal system in the world.

Leviticus 24:20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

This rather good policy is often contradicted in other scriptures that call for death to sinners who have done much less in terms of harm or sin than causing a death. We are told to stone unruly children, fornicators, witches and so on to a rather long list.

God himself has either killed or had killed many, even children and babies who in no way could have killed anyone.

Scripture tells us to revere life yet God and many of the laws attributed to him seem to ignore completely any reverence to life. In fact, to me, scriptures seem to make life an extremely cheap commodity even as it shows how important we are supposed to be to God. His greatest achievement in fact that even angels are to bow before.

Should an eye for an eye be re-written by God and the bible to read ------ an eye for whatever the hell God, Jesus and the scriptures say?

This immoral killing goes right back to Eden with God killing Adam and Eve for following scripture and emulating God.

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

When they did as asked, and this was recognized by God himself; Gen 3: 22 Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: He killed them by withholding the tree of life.

This issue of indiscriminate killing is an important contradiction in scriptures.
What do you think God’s law is?

An eye for an eye or the punishment should fit the sin; or, kill even if the victim to be has not come anywhere near killing?

Regards
DL

http://www.youtube.com/user/TurpisHaereticus#p/u/4/0ny-CDU4EFs

http://www.evilbible.com/god's not pro-life.htm

 

[wellwisher]

One way to look at this are the laws in the bible are spread out over thousands of years, with changes in the philosophy of the law reflecting advancement within human nature. An analogy would be children can't drink alcohol until a certain age. After that that prohibition get loosened or the law changes.

The childhood of civilized humanity, say 6000 years ago, started out with wild humans who needed tough laws since they were a notch above beasts. Giving a hardened semi-civilized criminal a time out will not have the same impact as an eye for an eye. You needed to get their attention.

As time goes on, humans nature progresses and the law of the bible also change. By the time of Christ the childhood of humanity is over and it was time to remove many of the old time laws.

When people read the bible, in one sitting, they forget it is a compilation over thousands of years and a not book written all at once.

 

[kx000]

An eye for a eye. Thou shall not judge, les ye be judged. About the witnesses of Revelation. If someone is to hurt them, then in that way they must be killed. God isn't exactly sensitive to life, being a death and all, especially in defense of his prophets.