Granted they are both OT, but Genesis is before the law was given. Numbers gives the reason why God instituted the death penalty. What was an abomination with God then is still one now. Romans 1 lists a sin that is "worthy of death", though it does not outright call for the perpetrator's execution. Indeed, Christ's blood can cleanse of murder, adultery, you name it. I can't recall any Paulist references to capital punishment off the top of my head, so I won't agree or disagree. Granted that grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, but God said that blood defiles the land, and that Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that the Lord would not pardon it, that tells me that God still takes murder very seriously.Both of your scriptural references are taken from the Old Testament -- which describes far more of a "contractual" relationship between humankind and the Almighty. Given the general sense among Christians that the New Testament supersedes the old when the two speak at cross purposes
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