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Nick Freitas debunks the ‘you can’t be pro-life and pro-death-penalty’ argument

The failed execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike has reignited a long-standing debate over capital punishment, but BlazeTV host Nick Freitas believes the Christian case for the death penalty is often misunderstood.“From a Christian perspective — we look at things, and I’ve even said before, whenever somebody says the death penalty is inhumane,” Freitas says, “I’m like, OK, well, I’ll let the author of Leviticus know, right?” Freitas notes that “Leviticus is a book in the Bible which actually lays out the various crimes for which the death penalty is acceptable, or, in even some cases, you could argue, mandated.” “So I’ve always found it a little bit disingenuous for someone to say that the death penalty is, in and of itself, inhumane,” he says. In this particular case, Freitas says, “She lured her 19-year-old classmate to a park, tortured her, carved a pentagram into her chest, and then kept a piece of her skull as a souvenir.”“We’re talking about somebody who, again, committed an act of premeditated murder, and not just murder but torture,” he explains. “She also tried to strangle another inmate to death. So this idea that simply because someone is in prison, they no longer have the capacity to commit other crimes is, again, something that we need to take into question,” he adds. And the idea that one cannot be pro-life and pro-death-penalty, Freitas says, is “an absolutely 100% absurd argument.” “To be pro-life is to say that a baby in the womb is innocent. It is innocent human life. And the way we know it's human life is because at the moment of conception, it actually has all the necessary characteristics to be distinguished from a living entity and a non-living entity,” he explains. “And more specifically from a living human entity versus some other kind of living entity,” he says.“Now, we make distinctions between human life guilty of a crime and human life which is not guilty of a crime,” he continues. “We don’t put everybody in prison, for obvious reasons. So how do we make that distinction between guilt and innocent?” “Well, there’s the objective reality, which is to say that if someone has committed a crime, they are guilty … but in the case of a baby in the womb, they simply do not have the capacity to be guilty of a crime,” he adds.“Making the Argument with Nick Freitas” is available on BlazeTV+, YouTube, and major podcast platforms.Start watching Nick Freitas NOW at blazetv.com and use the promo code NICK for $20 off your BlazeTV+ subscription.

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by Dikaios1517 · Edited

You Shall Not Do As They Do

It can be tempting to lump the ceremonial sacrifices of Israel into the same category as that of the pagan peoples of the ancient Near East that neighbored them. In this paper, I show that the sacrifices performed by Israel were very different from their ancient pagan counterparts.

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by Dikaios1517 · Edited

Jephthah's Vow

Did Jephthah really commit such a heinous deed as literally sacrificing his daughter as a burnt offering? If he did, how then is he included in the heroes of the faith in Hebrews 11? Is there another biblically faithful interpretation, and does it get Jephthah off the hook? This paper explores the arguments put forward by scholars who hold to the figurative interpretation of this passage from Judges 11:29-40 and considers whether they are convincing.

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by Akamaister

Tithing and the New Covenant: What Scripture Actually Teaches

A clear, biblical examination of tithing in the Old and New Testaments. The tithe was an Old Covenant agricultural system tied to ancient Israel—not a binding command for Christians. The New Covenant calls us to something greater: Spirit-led generosity grounded in the truth that God owns everything, not just a percentage.

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by CIV.IQ

Open for Comment: Airworthiness Directives; Various Helicopters

Transportation Department — The FAA proposes to supersede Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2015-20-12, which applies to certain Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Model S-61A, D, E, L, N, NM serial number (S/N) 61454, R, and V; Croman Corporation Model SH-3H; Carson Helicopters, Inc., Model S-61L and SH- 3H; Glacier Helicopter, Inc., Model CH-3E; Robinson Air Crane, Inc., Model CH-3E, CH-3C, HH-3C and HH-3E; and Siller Helicopters Model CH-3E and SH-3A helicopters. AD 2015-20-12 requires calculating or recalculating the hours time-in-service (TIS) of the main rotor shaft (MRS), determining whether the MRS is repetitive external lift (REL) or non-REL, performing a nondestructive inspection (NDI) for cracks, replacing any MRS that has cracks, replacing parts before their life limits and removing from service any parts that have exceeded their life limits. This proposed AD would also require establishing retirement lives for each REL MRS, including reducing life limits and allowing for modification of life limits based on service information, and removing any MRS with oversized dowel pin bores. Since the FAA issued AD 2015-20-12, a design re-evaluation shows that the MRS on certain helicopter models requires a lower life limit. This proposed AD would retain some of the requirements of AD 2015-20-12, and would also lower the retirement life for a certain MRS installed on certain helicopters and would update the type certificate holder name for some of the affected helicopter models. The FAA is proposing this AD to address the unsafe condition on these products. (44 days remaining)

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