Why "Ahnold" is in Trouble

The Europeans are mad at him. The Catholic Church is mad at him. Liberals are mad at him. The world is mad at Arnold Schwarzenegger because he upheld the law. What did they expect? Clemency? They expected him to behave as good, civilized people of the world do. Not as Conan the barbarian American. He did his duty. He executed the letter of the law.

American law is largely based on the Law of the Bible; The Old Testament or the Torah. America is still predominately Christian and we still have capital punishment in the United States. Post Christian Europe and many secular Americans probably don't know what the Bible says about the death penalty.

This is what the Bible says about capital punishment:

"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has man been made" (Genesis 9:6)
"Whoever strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death" (Exodus 21:12).
"Take him even from My altar and put him death" (Exodus 21:14).

This is what the Bible says about the authority of government:

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:
For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to [execute] wrath upon him that doeth evil. Romans 13:3&4

This is what Jesus said about the Law:

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. Mathew 5:17 "

Arguments against the death penalty are nothing more than the age old battle that mankind wages against God.