THESIS 14: THE PATRIARCHAL POWER OF "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT"

After the flood, the command to shed the blood of capital criminals (and not to eat blood) was given to the Family, not a "State."[51] Thus (cf. #4), even after man's Fall and expulsion from the Garden of Eden, neither a political ("State") nor an ecclesiastical ("church") institution was needed to supplement the Family.

Implications

What this Thesis means; how it should affect your life; how our lives should affect the world.

Clarifications

What this Thesis does NOT mean; how it should NOT affect your life; how the Old World distorted the truth.

Confirmations

How "mainstream" evangelical or orthodox commentators have confirmed this Thesis (without accepting the overall paradigm).

Deliberations

Readers' questions, complaints, allegations, flames, threats

         -- answered, adjusted, denied, blessed, filed.

Prooftexts

51. Genesis 9:1,4-6

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