{"id":12233,"date":"2021-07-13T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12233"},"modified":"2021-07-13T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T12:13:00","slug":"attempted-murder-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12233\/attempted-murder-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempted Murder &amp; Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hi Pastor John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">If a person attempted to murder another person but did not succeed, or that person survived, was that person guilty under the law of Moses as if he actually killed the person and was put to death?\u00a0 It seems to me the motive was there in their heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Billy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi Billy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Good question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>The motive, under the law, was not the standard for judgment.\u00a0 In the law of the Spirit\u00a0in this New Testament, on the other hand, Jesus said the motive is the standard\u00a0by which we all will be judged.\u00a0 For example,\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ve heard that it was said, \u2018You shall not commit adultery.\u2019\u00a0 But I say to you that every man who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart&#8221; (Mt. 5:27\u201328).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>The law punished a man according to what he did, not what he wanted to do.\u00a0 If a man tried to kill someone, but only wounded him, then, &#8220;And if anyone causes a blemish in his neighbor, as he did, so shall it be done to him: injury for injury, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.\u00a0 As he made a blemish in the man, so shall one be made in him&#8221; (Lev. 24:19\u201320).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks again for the question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Pastor John! If a person attempted to murder another person but did not succeed, or that person survived, was that person guilty under the law of Moses as if he actually killed the person and was put to death?\u00a0 It seems to me the motive was there in their heart. Billy ========== Hi Billy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}