Opinion: On why hanging all the Nuremberg violators won’t work
The Nuremberg Violations go all the way down.
Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34
From Peter’s speech at the pouring out of the Holy Spirit:
“Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know. He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of lawless men, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross. But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches… God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses. Exalted, then, to the right hand of God, He has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear…. Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!” When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” Peter said, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.” Acts 2:22-24, 36-39
The violations of the Nuremberg Code
Before I start this essay, let me ask you to suspend your disbelief if you think I am wrong and the Nuremberg code was not violated by the Covid lockdowns and vaccine coercion. I will deal with your side of that double-headed coin later.
But in my opinion, the facts are clear. I can only believe there can be no doubt the Nuremberg code was violated by the governments of Australia, Canada, England, the United States, and anywhere else where the experimental vaccines were mandated. With the boasts of Operation Warp Speed, right from the beginning, it was obvious these vaccines were experimental — ten to twelve years are required for the longitudinal trial process — and there is absolutely no doubt we were coerced to take these experimental products — the mandates were intentionally designed to be coercive — and all you need for something to be a violation of the Nuremberg code is for people to be coerced by authorities to take an experimental medication.
And so, in my opinion an honest assessment must come to the conclusion that the Nuremberg violations go all the way up and all the way down, from the Prime Minister and his advisers, who purposively and intentionally turned a blind eye to the unconstitutional State mandates (health is a federal responsibility and the constitution applies to the Federation) to the State Premiers and to the Police minister, who coerced these mandates, all the way down to the doctors who refused to give exemptions and administered the illegal product without properly informing people of the risks and the business owners who coerced their employees to take the vax.
And for Nuremberg Code violations tried in court after World War II, the sentence is death. Some were commuted to life imprisonment. Some whose actions were incidental to the main violations were imprisoned for a number of years.
So should we hang everybody?
The question becomes, should we hang everybody?
On the one hand, we simply can’t do that - there’s too many of them - I believe at least 60-80% of adult society was complicit in these crimes, one way or another.
But what does it all mean? How do we get justice?
I believe that never has it been clearer that we are all sinners who deserve to die for our sins. The just penalty for sin is death. Biblically speaking, this was the sentence for eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but it is also our own sentence, which we deserve to pay for our own sins.
And now I’m not just talking about the Nuremberg Code violators, but all of us here, including me.
I deserve the death penalty too.
It is rather surprising, the list of sins in the Old Testament that deserve the death penalty.
For it is rather long. Cursing father or mother is among them, blaspheming, anyone who entices other people to go after false gods, breaking the Sabbath, divination, muttering as a medium; I could go on and list many others, you probably know them very intimately, because you (like me) have committed some of these sins or others, sins that have awakened you at night sometimes, with agonising guilt, sins that have separated us from God.
But the great news of the gospel, fellow condemned prisoners, is that we don’t have to pay for our sins.
Jesus has already paid for these sins by dying on the cross. Yes, the solution to our sins and the sins of the whole world is quite simple: turn to Jesus and be forgiven!
Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.
What a great liberation — there is no more judgement. Judgement has been done away with. And to all who are far off: so let us not forget, Jesus has already paid for the sins of the whole world. (John 3:16)
Yes, this Jesus, on whom God set his seal by raising Him from the dead, is Lord and Christ, and now sits at the right hand of God, from whence he shall return to judge the living and the dead. But set your hope on him, and all your sins will be forgiven, and there is no more judgement.
Trying to make up for past sins
Now, of course, despite this, we see every day in the news how past sins plague a society that does not have faith: one reason so many academics and intellectuals get so screwed up in the head these days is that they are trying to make recompense for the past sins of society. We hear much about this, from reparations to slaves, to remove the statues of Confederates, to damning the memory of abusive footballers, etc etc.
But there are some problems with trying to make up for past sins.
For one thing, once you look past a few generations, you can have both oppressor and victim in the same family line. It turns out that, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a lawyer and activist who has called for reparations from slave holders’ descendants to be paid to the descendants of slaves, and reparations from those whose ancestors stole the continent from the Indians, to the Indians, had her genealogy done: her direct antecedents include colonials who travelled on the Mayflower.
This attempt to make the future pay for the sins of the past is not unique: Even God (who alone has the right to visit the sins of the fathers on the sons ) at one stage in the scriptures promises to visit the sins of the fathers on the third and fourth generation:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them (foreign gods), nor serve them; for I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me Deuteronomy 5:9
But in the end, visiting people’s sins on their descendants to the third and fourth generation was problematic even for God in his divine omniscience — even God seems to have eventually changed his mind about this — Ezekiel 18 has a different take on it1; God appears to have changed his mind:
When a righteous person turns away from doing right and does evil things, he will die. He will die because of the evil things he has done. When a wicked person turns away from the wicked things that he has done and does what is fair and right, he will live. He realised what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die
Of course, isn’t it true, though, that the children more often do what they see their parents doing, and this is how the sins of the parents are often sent down the generations?
But how is it even possible to recompense those who suffered, a hundred years later, without causing more injustice and making a mockery of the very idea of reparation?
It’s not even always possible on an individual level. In life we are all both victims and oppressors, in different situations.
When I look at my own past sins, and whether I could offer apologies and reparations, the problem is that there are some people I can’t contact to make reparations, there are some people who have since died who I can longer apologise to or try to make it up to, and there are some people who simply won’t talk to me or forgive me even when I’ve done my best to apologise.
The thief on the cross was forgiven, though, at the very last minute; he never made reparations, but was forgiven by Jesus, so on Jesus alone can I set my hope, and not on anything I can do to earn forgiveness or achieve it.
Accordingly, I try to show mercy to others, when they sin against me, for I truly need mercy.
Mercy, mercy, mercy.
This brings me to the way the government should approach the last three dreadful years: what is not going to achieve anything is an attitude of blame, of judgement, an attitude of tightening the screws even further — federal misinformation legislation, the WA Covid police legislation promising an even more catastrophically domineering approach next time we have a genetically engineered common cold spreading through the population, the continuation of blame and denial and lies, the cover-up of everything that went wrong, the Christian wife of an appointed dignitary accusing peaceful protestors of stalking — these sorts of judgemental responses will only cause God’s judgment to come down on our leaders inexorably and inevitably.
For a lack of mercy from our leaders may eventually even cause a reaction of violence from the oppressed population, or even create such disunity that a foreign takeover would be a liberation for many. Will God ignore the prayers of those who cry out?
No, he won’t; the hammer will fall on those who want to hammer others, in the end.
Those who dig a hole for others to fall into, will fall into it themselves. This is inevitable. As Longfellow put it, “Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, With exactness grinds He all.”
Restore Trust
The government should instead make the way clear for people who were fired for not being vaccinated, particularly in the health industry which still has unjust mandates, to resume their jobs — more than this, the unvaxed health workers need incentives and apologies and reassurances and ironclad contracts that say that when they do come back to work, the same thing will never happen to them again.
Trust must be restored.
There needs to be repentance and apologies and an attempt at reconciliation and an attempt to create an atmosphere of trust.
Apologies even from the successors of those who implemented the injustices (who have since resigned or been replaced) will mean something to those who were wronged.
This would forestall the judgement of God which will otherwise come upon the successive governments.
Forgiveness.
And let me add: those of us who were wronged need to forgive and thereby will be our healing from this.
For Jesus has already paid for all these sins too.
As he has paid for my sins, your sins, our sins, and the sins of our nation.
For those who think I sinned
Now, for those who have a different opinion, for those who believe I sinned by refusing the jab 1) my conscience is clear 2) I am satisfied that I caused no grandmas to die 3) events have proven me right the vax did not stop transmission or illness 4) those who got it are now more likely to catch Covid 5) but if you think I am still wrong and that I sinned it is between me and God and you ought to understand that Jesus has paid for my sins too, even unintentional sins, if it were truly so.
Mercy for everyone at the cross
Therefore, let us never forget that there is mercy for everyone, brothers and sisters, at the foot of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; for everyone, that is, who is willing to forego vengeance and show mercy to others.
But for anyone who does not accept the mercy of God through Jesus Christ our Lord (the fruit of this acceptance is in the mercy we show to others), God’s judgement will be upon that person, for his/her own words will judge him/her:
Do not judge, or you will be judged. For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you mete out, it will be measured to you. Matthew 7:1-2
REITERATING THE GOOD NEWS
Let me say again: the great news of the gospel, fellow condemned prisoners, is that we don’t have to pay for our sins.
Jesus has already paid for these sins by dying on the cross. Yes, the solution to our sins and the sins of the whole world is quite simple: turn to Jesus today and be forgiven!
Why the Nuremberg violators should not be hung
Indeed, the word of God says “Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord.” Romans 12:19
And this brings me back to the point of this article: Jesus has already paid for all their sins, and we are all sinners in need of God’s mercy. Let us pray that God has mercy on us all.
NOTES- revised a few times after emailing.
EZEKIEL 18 The Lord spoke his word to me. He said, 2 “What do you mean when you use this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘Fathers have eaten sour grapes, and their children’s teeth are set on edge’? 3 As I live, declares the Almighty Lord, you will no longer use this proverb in Israel. 4 The life of every person belongs to me. Fathers and their children belong to me. The person who sins will die.
5 “Suppose a righteous person does what is fair and right. 6 He doesn’t eat at the illegal mountain worship sites or look for help from the idols of the nation of Israel. He doesn’t dishonor his neighbor’s wife or have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is having her period. 7 He doesn’t oppress anyone. He returns what a borrower gives him as security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked. 8 He doesn’t lend money for interest or make an excessive profit. He refuses to do evil things, and he judges everyone fairly. 9 He lives by my rules and obeys my laws faithfully. This person is righteous. He will certainly live,” declares the Almighty Lord.
10 “But suppose this person has a son who robs and murders. The son does all the things 11 that his father never did. He eats at the illegal mountain worship sites. He dishonors his neighbor’s wife. 12 He oppresses the poor and needy. He robs. He doesn’t return the security for a loan. He looks to idols for help. He does disgusting things. 13 He lends money for interest and makes excessive profits. Will this person live? He will not live. He has done all these disgusting things. So he must die, and he will be responsible for his own death.
14 “But suppose this person has a son. The son sees all the sins that his father does. He is afraid, so he doesn’t do such things. 15 He doesn’t eat at the illegal mountain worship sites or look for help from the idols of the nation of Israel. He doesn’t dishonor his neighbor’s wife. 16 He doesn’t oppress anyone. He doesn’t keep the security for a loan. He doesn’t rob anyone. He gives food to people who are hungry, and he gives clothes to those who are naked. 17 He refuses to hurt the poor. He doesn’t charge interest or make excessive profits. He obeys my rules and lives by my laws. He won’t die for his father’s sins. He will certainly live. 18 But his father has oppressed others, robbed his relative, and done what is wrong among his people. So the father will die because of his sin.
19 “But you ask, ‘Why isn’t the son punished for his father’s sin?’ It is because the son has done what is fair and right. He obeyed my rules and followed them. He will certainly live. 20 The person who sins will die. A son will not be punished for his father’s sins, and a father will not be punished for his son’s sins. The righteousness of the righteous person will be his own, and the wickedness of the wicked person will be his own.
21 “But suppose a wicked person turns away from all the sins that he has done. He obeys all my laws and does what is fair and right. He will certainly live. He will not die. 22 All the rebellious things that he did will not be remembered. He will live because of the right things that he did. 23 I don’t want wicked people to die.” declares the Almighty Lord. “I want them to turn from their evil ways and live.
24 “But suppose a righteous person turns away from doing right and he does evil things. He does all the disgusting things that the wicked person did. Will he live? All the right things that he has done will not be remembered because of his unfaithfulness and because of his sin. He will die because of them.
25 “But you say, ‘The Lord’s way is unfair.’ Listen, nation of Israel, isn’t my way fair? Isn’t it your ways that are unfair? 26 When a righteous person turns away from doing right and does evil things, he will die. He will die because of the evil things he has done. 27 When a wicked person turns away from the wicked things that he has done and does what is fair and right, he will live. 28 He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.