Theme E: Religion, crime and punishment(part 2)
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- Created on: 11-05-18 00:42
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- Religion and Punishment
- Aims of punishment
- retribution= making the Criminal pay for what they have done
- ‘Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth’ Old Testament
- ‘I will punish transgressions with the rod’ Psalm 89
- deterrence= punishment designed to put other criminals off from committing the crime
- The Ten Commandments are laws that guide behaviour
- reformation= to try and change the criminal, so they no longer commit the crime
- ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked but rather that they turn away from their ways’ Old Testament
- Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
- retribution= making the Criminal pay for what they have done
- Treatment of criminals
- prison
- Christians support prison reform that has tried to improve conditions inside prisons and give prisoners better opportunities to gain education and qualifications
- “He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free.” – Luke 4:18
- community service
- For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him
- Proverbs 19:17 If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord and He will repay you
- prison
- Forgiveness
- “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.
- forgive us are trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us
- “O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
- The death penalty= capital punishment: punishment in which a criminal is put to death
- for
- "Take not life, which God has made sacred, except by way of justice and law. Thus does He command you, so that you may learn wisdom."-Qur'an
- against
- They believe that only Allah has the right to take life, and therefore carrying out the death penalty is 'playing God' and committing the sin of shirk.
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- Aims of punishment
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