You know: I'd love to give you a manly hug, talk out our differences over a beer (if only I could get across The Pond).

For a time, I thought you were winding me up (are you?), but I seem to sense your sincerity.

Physical execution is not caused by something so abstract as sin, but by human beings. Your argument, all along, has been that God commands such. But then, just now, you agreed with me that the Father is love, and that love does not destroy what it loves. If this is true (and we have agreed it is), then God could not command others to do what he himself would not, and could not, do. If he did, then he would not, could not, be love.

When someone is physically killed, of course they are destroyed...physically. We are our bodies; we are all of a piece. Jesus rose from physical death, not spiritual death. But he was reunited, as it were, with his physical body, because it was part of and remains part of him for eternity. (It is why I believe in the Real Presence.)