Issues: Crime and Punishment

IN SUMMARY

• Christians believe that the Government of a country has a God-given right to punish.
• Christians believe it is always possible for the criminal to repent and change his/her ways.
• Jesus rules out revenge/retaliation as a motivation for punishing criminals.
• Punishment should allow for the possibility that the prisoner might reform his ways.
• Christians should not be judgmental.
• Christians should forgive those who wrong them.