{"id":212,"date":"2005-08-29T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/08\/29\/the-lectionary-and-the-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T17:54:40","slug":"the-lectionary-and-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2005\/08\/29\/the-lectionary-and-the-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lectionary and the death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lectionary text for last week and the Lectionary text for this week have a large gap of the first verses of Romans 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That section of Scripture skips the text which speaks of the government&#8217;s use of the sword as a messenger of God. These verses are a clearly support for the Death Penalty. I wonder why they are skipped in the Lectionary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is there a bias in the Lectionary against these kinds of passages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lectionary text for last week and the Lectionary text for this week have a large gap of the first verses of Romans 13. That section of Scripture skips the text which speaks of the government&#8217;s use of the sword as a messenger of God. These verses are a clearly support for the Death Penalty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}