Death Penalty and Life in Prison

The Trinity; There is only one true God, and He has eternally existed in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1: 26; 3:22; 11:7)

Other attributes are that God is Holy, unchangeable and cannot lie. Isaiah 6:3 attests of God’s Holiness and that glory of God satisfies the whole earth. Because of God’s Holiness, it is impossible for God to lie as this goes against His nature, “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character to his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, so that by two unchangeable thins, in which it is impossible for God to lie”, (Hebrews 6:17-18, ESV). The Christian worldview doesn’t stop there. Christians contend that their God is alive and will never leave them. God is alive to every believer through His word (John 1:14 NASB), and the Bible, “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than a two-edged sword”, (Hebrews 4:12, ESV). It is comforting that not only does God have a relationship by loving man that hat he will never leave the believer, “because God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you”, (Hebrews 13:5, NIV). These mentioned descriptions don’t include the more popular characteristics in which God is all knowing (omniscience), all powerful (omnipotence)

The first four chapters of Genesis indicate that God is the eternal Creator the universe; that God communicates with His creation and evaluates his own work, and that God is sovereign, exercising “supreme authority and absolute power over all things” (Lecture 2, para. 5). There is but one true God, who exists as a Triune Being and is three Persons in one essence; a Divine essence which exists wholly, invisibly, simultaneously and eternally, within three members of the one Godhead—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Lecture 2, para. 7). Harmoniously linked, “each divine figure of the Trinity exercises dominion over creation and is involved in the biblical narrative in its own unique, yet cooperative, way” (Johnson, p. 178). The unity of the Trinity not only illustrates the full divinity of God, the immeasurable power, benevolence, wisdom and omnipresence distinctly setting Him apart from His creation, but also shows that He is the source of all that is good, true, beautiful, loving, just, and

God is an amazing and awesome God; he is the one who gave us life. God is always here for us and carries us through our hard times. God does tell us to follow his ten

When you look around and gaze at the beautiful creation before you, do you reflect on how amazing God is? God made the creation, man, and everything surrounding the two. There are many different worldviews. This paper will focus on the Christian worldview. The Christian worldview involves God, humanity, Jesus, and restoration.

This God however does take on three forms known as The Trinity. The Christian doctrine states that God exists as God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

The one thing that we know about God is that he is perfect and does not lie to us. Jesus implores us in Matthew 5:48 to “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (ESV). Numbers also tells us in chapter 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not fulfill it?” Knowing that our God is perfect, his words are also perfect and

In Genesis, God is portrayed as the Creator of the world and of man and woman, and as a strict enforcer of justice ("Because you have done this, Curse are you above all livestock and wild animals") (Gen. 3:14), ("If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?") (Gen. 4:6). God destroys what is wicked, as is seen from the flood, but saves what is good, as is seen in the case of Noah. Following the flood, God makes a covenant with Noah, which shows another side of God's "personality" that He insists on establishing a "bond" between Himself and mankind, i.e., a religion. Several covenants will be established over time, all of them culminating in the one set by Christ, who really shows the personality of God.

In order to solve this issue other philosophers hold that God is everlasting, instead of eternal, he, like humans, is a temporal being who exists within time and has a past present and future

This statement is what brought about the debate over Jesus’ divinity that has plagued Christianity since the beginning. To bring this to a decision, in 325 Constantine called for Christian bishops to convene at the Council of Nicea and discuss the “raging debate about the equality of Jesus Christ with God” (Cunningham, 51). Following this first ecumenical council, Tertullian, a North African Christian, coined the term “trintas” which translates to the idea of three persons making up one divine reality. (p. 51) This idea stated that Jesus Christ was one divine being made up of three separate persons: Father, Son, and Holy

As such, He is the true God. This is confirmed from the book of Jeremiah Chapter 10 verse 10. It says that God is the true God and the eternal King. The verse confirms the fact that God exists and He is a true God. There have been several debates about the existence of God.

Num 23:19 (KJV) God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

We see the promises that He made to Abraham and to other men, and then we see that He always kept those promises. God has never failed to keep His word, and He never will. Because He has confirmed Jesus, we can be anchored by our hope in Him, without wavering!”

God is infinite, everlasting, and never-changing. God set the laws of the land therefore I must abide by what is determined by God as right and wrong. God has revealed this truth through his creation and revelation. God is absolute.

I began my research by looking into the death penalty or also known as capital punishment. The death penalty is the action of executing a person who has committed an illegal act equivalent to death. Crimes punishable by death vary depending on the state; some include murder, sexual assault, treason, and other serious capital crimes (“Crimes Punishable”, 2011). There are many different outlooks on the death penalty; some in favor of the death penalty believe it is the ultimate balance between good and evil and they often use the phrase, “an eye, for an eye.” By using death as punishment they can assure society