Stoning a Man to Death for Blasphemy Was “Right and Proper,” With “No Apologies”
He got a just penalty for his crime, and it was right and proper for the Israelites to stone him.
In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2023, from Mere Christendom, cited to the source.
First, the executed man there was not a victim of injustice. He got a just penalty for his crime, and it was right and proper for the Israelites to stone him. No apologies here for Leviticus. God told them directly to execute him. How could it not be just? The Mosaic law as given to Israel in the wilderness was holiness in a kit. […] That law was, pure and simple, rough-cut justice. It was capable of killing blasphemers, which was right and good, but was still not capable of ending blasphemy.