BrownEyedBoy said:Yes, but this isn't about neighbor to neighbor relationships in which you are asked to forgive and to love.
This is more of a father/son (state/person under the law) relationshipl; the kind that Proverbs asked that a Father should be strict in punishing and creating discipline in his child.
You said "an eye for an eye." I found an indisputable quote that revokes it from the NT.
As I've said before, Christians of all stripes pick and choose. Even the "fundamentalists."
Melon