3 — God's existence is withheld from us out of love so that we do not run into the risk of violating the eternal death
penalty of blasphemy.
But now if we know Jesus, we know the Father, and we can receive the Holy Spirit through Jesus without risking the eternal
penalty of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Not exact matches
(WWM) One
of today's most prominent persecuted Christians has been allowed to appeal her death
penalty for
blasphemy to Pakistan's highest court.
If they desist not from their word (
of blasphemy), verily a grievous
penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.
Good in theory, but now resulting in manufactured revenge accusations against minority communities where a
blasphemy charge is hard to prove, frequently goes the way
of the mob, is used to settle old grudges and I believe carries the death
penalty.
Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host
of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry,
blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death
penalty trial.
He also tells us that
blasphemy was punished by death, and while in the Manual
of Discipline the
penalty is excommunication, in the Zadokite Document it is also death.
In 1819, the government introduced harsh new laws, the «Six Acts», which prohibited possession
of weapons by civilians, introduced wide search and seizure powers, restricted public meetings, increased
penalties for
blasphemy and sedition, and imposed swingeing taxes on pamphlets and periodicals.