Some people might want to ask this question does
Stoning has been done away? insight study about stoning and scripture evidence
and put this understand clear.
Stoning or lapidation is not done away,
it
is a form of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until the person dies.
The written Torah sentences death by stoning for the following:
- Touching Mount Sinai while Elohim was giving Mosheh the Ten Commandments (Shemot 19:13)
- An ox that gores someone to death should be stoned (Shemot 21:28)
- Breaking the Shabbat (Numbers 15:32-36)
- Giving one's "seed" (presumably one's offspring) "to Molech" (Vayikra 20:2-5)
- Having a "familiar spirit" (or being a necromancer) or being a "wizard" (Vayikra 20:27)
- Cursing or blasphemer Elohim (Lev. 24:10-16)
- Engaging in idolatry (Devarim 17:2-7) or seducing others to do so (Deut. 13:7-12)
- "Rebellion" against parents (Deut. 21,18-21)
- Getting married as though a virgin, when not a virgin (Deut. 22:13-21)
- Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman engaged to another man (both should be stoned, Devarim 22:23-24)
Mishna
The Mishna gives the following list of persons who should be stoned.
"To the following sinners stoning applies – אלו הן הנסקלין
- one who has had connection with his mother – הבא על האם
- with his father's wife – ועל אשת האב
- with his daughter-in-law – ועל הכלה
- with a human male – ועל הזכור
- or with cattle – ועל הבהמה
- and the same is the case with a woman who uncovers herself before cattle – והאשה המביאה את הבהמה
- with a blasphemer – והמגדף
- an idolater – והעובד עבודת כוכבים
- he who sacrifices one of his children to Molech – והנותן מזרעו למולך
- one that occupies himself with familiar spirits – ובעל אוב
- a wizard – וידעוני
- one who violates the Sabbath – והמחלל את השבת
- one who curses his father or mother – והמקלל אביו ואמו
- one who has assaulted a betrothed damsel – והבא על נערה המאורסה
- a seducer who has seduced men to worship idols – והמסית
- and the one who misleads a whole town – והמדיח
- a witch (male or female) – והמכשף
- a stubborn and rebellious son – ובן סורר ומורה"
In the Tanakh:
In the Brit Hadashah:
In the Talmud
People who were almost stoned in religious texts
In the Tanakh:
In the Brit Hadashah - Renewed Covenant:
- The good news of Yoachanan chapter 8 gives the story of Yeshua and the woman taken in adultery, in which people wanted to stone the woman.
- Yeshua (Yoachanan 10:31)
- The captain of the Temple and his officers (Acts 5:26)
- Paulos of Tarsus, stoned at Lystra at the instigation of Yehudim. He was left for dead, but then revived. (Acts 14:19)
The criteria for death
by stoning are not met such without temple, so the Sanhedrin cannot implement.
Stoning is death sentence, however at present moment it is not practice.
Possible fact that the Torah stoning can only be enforce in the Land of Yisrael
and at present moment there is no temple. For death sentence to be carried out
in accordance to Torah guidelines, there has to be a Sanhedrin and the Sanhedrin has to be seated in a chamber on the Temple mount to hand down a verdict. Once the Temple fell in 70 CE there was no more
death sentence executed by Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin cannot carry out such
sentence. Only the Sanhedrin is authorised to pass a death sentence verdict
by means of stoning.
However at the time of Yeshua, the Romans took
away the authority power of the Sanhedrin to execute death sentence. That is
why we can see the trial had to hand over to Pontos Pilate the authority to
execute the death sentence.
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