Should Murderers Be Stoned to Death?
There is a lot of truth in theonomy. But things have changed since the time of Moses. At that point, the church and state were basically one.
After the exile, things were different. The role of the Jews was to be priests within the Gentile state. They no longer had the right to administer capital punishment. When they witnessed faithfully, there was a Jew at the emperor’s right hand, steering the empire for God’s people and their stand for the truth.