THEOLOGY AND CRIME

Many people try to make excuses for the reasons crimes are committed.  The insanity plea is one such excuse, and if people think you are not in control of your actions, then you shouldn't be responsible for the crime you committed, even if it was planned out in great detail.

    The motive and cause of crime to be addressed in this paper is theology.  A definition of theology is the study of God.  Most people would never imagine someone excusing their crime by saying it was God's will, but students of the Bible will be familiar with sacrifice and sacrificial offerings.  They will also be aware that God sacrificed his only son to save the lives of us all.  He did not do it as form of murder, but out of love.  When your life is in order and you are right with Christ, then you will have no worries.

    There are many places in the Bible where it is understandable about how someone might have a theological excuse for crime.  People do, see, hear, or read something, and then go out and try to imitate what they think they understand.  The problem is that they don't really understand what they are trying to imitate.  After they copy it, they want to know why they are being penalized for what they thought was the right thing to do.  There may be few cases of criminals using the excuse "The Lord told me to do it," and it is highly unlikely such an excuse would be successful in court because every preacher and saved person in the room would protest about the real world of God.

    If you read the Bible, you will understand that God is far from promoting violence among people.  In the old days, they didn't have these huge knives and machine guns.  They didn't go around doing drive-by shootings on people.  They either talked it out or fought it out with no weapons like civilized people.  One of the Ten Commandments says "Thou shalt not kill," and this law is for everyone.  This paper will explore the possibilities of people who think they are exempt from that law, and blame their violence on God.

[Comments: I took out most of the misspelling and awkward sentences and tried to cut down on some of the "you" statements.  You're off to a late start, but have some potential here for what looks like a good paper on terrorism.]