Greg,
In reply to:
since you believe people who masturbate should be put to death, will you be the first one to cast the stone?

You are once again attempting to justify your own self-centered pleasure by twisting the clear teaching of the Holy Scripture. Your cavilling at the phrase "those who do such things deserve death" demonstrates your refusal to believe that ALL SIN DESERVES DEATH, for that phrase follows the Holy Spirit's catalog of DEATH-DESERVING SINS in Romans 1:18-31:

suppression of truth by wickedness
refusal to glorify God
refusal to thank God
claiming to be wise while becoming foolish
exchanging the glory of God for images
sexual impurity
degradation of bodies with one another
exchanging the truth of God for a lie
worshipping and serving created things
not worshipping and serving the Creator
exchanging natural relations for unnatural
commission of indecent acts with the same gender
inflammation with lust for one another
not retaining the knowledge of God
doing what ought not be done
becoming filled with every kind of wickedness
becoming filled with every kind of evil
becoming filled with every kind of greed
becoming filled with every kind of depravity
becoming full of envy
becoming full of murder
becoming full of strife
becoming full of deceit
becoming full of malice
being gossips
being slanderers
being God-haters
being insolent
being arrogant
being boastful
inventing ways of doing evil
disobeying their parents
being senseless
being faithless
being heartless
being ruthless


Since all of these types of sins deserve death, yet only a portion of the catalog lists sins which are to punished by the sword, the phrase deserve death clearly refers to the outpouring of God's wrath upon ALL SIN, both temporally and eternally, rather than simply the God-ordained measures granted the civil authorities for certain extreme public crimes. As you have done with other passages brought to your attention in this thread, you have once again blatantly turned the Scripture on its head. Your question unjustly accuses me of calling for a civil execution. You alone know whether your intent was to draw attention away from your redefinition (calling evil good) of sexual immorality as a profitable pursuit--"did God really say?"--or whether you are simply so ignorant of the Word of God that you feel compelled to reject whatever you do not understand. Either way, your question deserves no answer.

What I pray will be profitable to you, Greg, is to look at the end of the passage you quoted, and believe Him who spoke it, and obey:


Go now and leave your life of sin. (John 8:11)


In Christ,
Paul S