'...he is to be handed over to Satan so that his sensual body may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord'. (1 Corinthians 5:5)
'The devil is your father, and you prefer to do what your father wants. He was a murderer from the start; he was never grounded in the truth;
there is no truth in him at all...' (John 8:44)
We see St. Paul, as driven by the Holy Spirit in his mission to the gentiles, speaks of leaving someone in Satan's domain.
This equates to a total casting out from the community of such an individual, going by Christ's words.
[ At this point, to avoid conversations over Scripture being erroneous and which I won't enter into, to get the subject out the way, we hark back to medieval days, let's take England,
when people were tortured to keep them from Hell, these abominable acts in some cases at least a misinterpretation of St. Paul's instruction, that sinners could be delivered by means
of suffering from their worldly passions and indeed from Hell during their captivity and all which comes with it. Obviously, we know that kings and queens used religion for their own proliferations
and were highly immoral and so that takes care of that... ]
However, Satan is evil. So, this means putting a person into the hands of Evil. A murderer of the soul. And oppressor of the spirit. And his puppets.
Where does this leave the subject of law-enforcement?
True justice is based on protection for the community from the violent-minded and dangerous, yet the torturous behaviour of jailors and fellow prisoners is surely to extend the subject of evil to those who
do the arresting?
In countries where totalitarianism is on the rise, Satan's dominion very clearly extends in subject to them (extreme examples, the Nazis and the SS), without deliberation, while on a general level, can we always say, along with the
well-known understanding that 'the devil is the accuser', that the police are and always have been controlled by the devil. But then...if the police are serving God albeit in a punitive way, how can they be?
My opinion, is that at certain times during history, law enforcement has been orchestrated by Satan. And this was then the case during St. Paul's life. The Romans inflicted terror, ergo the devil.
[ Of course, even during more pleasant eras in some countries, there can be elements of law-enforcement which require change, e.g. the death penalty as opposed to blanket pre-arrest execution ('a take down') and which I believe is more merciful. ]
This would then smooth out the subject of there being occasions where law-enforcement is Just and so of God, though sometimes under the supervision of Satan, but which according to St. Paul doesn't rule out the necessity of an evil ill-willed person having to undergo punitive correction and which under a Just government would primarily be concerned with 'correction' as the intended purpose and which poses itself as a second question:
1. Is law enforcement of the devil only at certain points in history?
2. Is the difference between law enforcement being good or evil, the premise of 'punitive measure' to 'correction'?
With the above in mind, and affirmatives, then law enforcement under Satan would take a different title to 'law enforcement' as Satan is not lawful and so making St. Paul's words as having been expressed exactly as they should have been: a handing over to Satan.
'The devil is your father, and you prefer to do what your father wants. He was a murderer from the start; he was never grounded in the truth;
there is no truth in him at all...' (John 8:44)
We see St. Paul, as driven by the Holy Spirit in his mission to the gentiles, speaks of leaving someone in Satan's domain.
This equates to a total casting out from the community of such an individual, going by Christ's words.
[ At this point, to avoid conversations over Scripture being erroneous and which I won't enter into, to get the subject out the way, we hark back to medieval days, let's take England,
when people were tortured to keep them from Hell, these abominable acts in some cases at least a misinterpretation of St. Paul's instruction, that sinners could be delivered by means
of suffering from their worldly passions and indeed from Hell during their captivity and all which comes with it. Obviously, we know that kings and queens used religion for their own proliferations
and were highly immoral and so that takes care of that... ]
However, Satan is evil. So, this means putting a person into the hands of Evil. A murderer of the soul. And oppressor of the spirit. And his puppets.
Where does this leave the subject of law-enforcement?
True justice is based on protection for the community from the violent-minded and dangerous, yet the torturous behaviour of jailors and fellow prisoners is surely to extend the subject of evil to those who
do the arresting?
In countries where totalitarianism is on the rise, Satan's dominion very clearly extends in subject to them (extreme examples, the Nazis and the SS), without deliberation, while on a general level, can we always say, along with the
well-known understanding that 'the devil is the accuser', that the police are and always have been controlled by the devil. But then...if the police are serving God albeit in a punitive way, how can they be?
My opinion, is that at certain times during history, law enforcement has been orchestrated by Satan. And this was then the case during St. Paul's life. The Romans inflicted terror, ergo the devil.
[ Of course, even during more pleasant eras in some countries, there can be elements of law-enforcement which require change, e.g. the death penalty as opposed to blanket pre-arrest execution ('a take down') and which I believe is more merciful. ]
This would then smooth out the subject of there being occasions where law-enforcement is Just and so of God, though sometimes under the supervision of Satan, but which according to St. Paul doesn't rule out the necessity of an evil ill-willed person having to undergo punitive correction and which under a Just government would primarily be concerned with 'correction' as the intended purpose and which poses itself as a second question:
1. Is law enforcement of the devil only at certain points in history?
2. Is the difference between law enforcement being good or evil, the premise of 'punitive measure' to 'correction'?
With the above in mind, and affirmatives, then law enforcement under Satan would take a different title to 'law enforcement' as Satan is not lawful and so making St. Paul's words as having been expressed exactly as they should have been: a handing over to Satan.