Re: This is feeling.
Keeping in step with a NEW covenant, NEW life, etc., there is also a new way to resolve AND END crime/conflict/offenses...
If there is only ONE WORD to describe the true love for the LORD AND HIS WAYS, that word is JUSTICE...
Rev 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
Rev 18:5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed.
You know as well as I do that the FORGIVENESS thing that was told to the Jews does not put an end to misdeed/iniquitous behavior.
"Forgiveness" CONTINUES iniquitous behavior (it is a perversion of justice).
The way of the old west when everyone carried a gun, was not IDEAL, but it DID prevent repeated violations of civilized behavior.
Only judges can "FORGIVE",.... will you set yourself up as "JUDGE"?.