So, uh, and besides that, okay, no one was ever stoned to death for lusting after a woman
in their heart or for getting divorced and remarried.
That's ridiculous.
Obviously, when the Bible puts the death penalty on adultery in Leviticus chapter 20 verse
10, it's talking about a very specific situation, and let me read the verse for you.
The Bible says,
And the man that commiteth adultery with another man's wife, even he that commiteth adultery
with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulterous shall surely be put to death.
So what that says there is redundant, because it actually repeats the first part.
The man that commiteth adultery with another man's wife, even he that commiteth adultery
with his neighbor's wife.
So the reason that that's being repeated is because that's the exact scenario where someone
should be put to death.
I absolutely believe that if a man lies with his neighbor's wife, if someone goes to bed
with a married woman, that that person should be put to death and the married woman should
be put to death.
That is what the Bible clearly states.
And I believe Leviticus 20 10, and I believe that adultery should be against the law even
today in the United States of America, that it should be a criminal offense and that if
it fits the criteria of this verse, that people who engage in it should be put to death.
So trying to come up with the stupid straw man of saying, Oh, well, if you lost after
a woman in your heart, you're gonna be put to death.
All Jesus is teaching there in the Sermon on the Mount is just that none of us is sinless.
And so if you lost in your heart, you've committed sin.
If you get divorced and remarried, that's a sin.
But it doesn't mean that you've actually committed the physical, literal act of adultery.
Just like if you hate someone in your heart, the Bible says you're a murderer.
If you hate your brother in your heart, you're a murderer, right?
But here's the thing.
That doesn't mean that, you know, we're gonna round up all the hateful people and put them
to death because we believe in the death penalty for murder.
That's foolishness.
But there are just a lot of stupid people in the world today.
And so they come up with these dumb arguments like, Oh, well, are you gonna execute people
who hate their brother in their heart?
Obviously, the Bible is condemning sins in our heart.
But, you know, the literal act is what gets you put to death, whether it be first degree
murder or this act of adultery that's described, etc.