From 2010 to 2024, 5,074 murders were committed in Trinidad & Tobago. This country has a population of 1.4 million. T&T’s murder rate has placed it among the highest in the Caribbean and, by extension, the world. In 2022 & 2024, the murder rate exceeded 600. An article in the Trinidad Guardian in April, 2023, stated that T&T is ranked as the 6th most criminal country in the world.

While there is an outcry among citizens about this high murder rate, virtually nothing is said about abortions, medical malpractice, and road accidents, to name a few. The Guttmacher Institute reported that in 2015 – 2019, there were 29,700 unintended pregnancies in T&T.  And from this number, 17,100 ended in abortion. In other words, during those few years 17,100 babies were murdered in this country. This country is soaked in the blood of murder that has polluted and cursed the land.

Murder is one of the most heinous sins that can be committed. It is the sin that attacks God directly because it attacks the image of God in men. The key verse here is  Gen.9:5-6.  The context of these verses is the covenant God made with Noah. God, beginning afresh with Noah after the flood, reaffirmed the creation commands, changed man’s diet (vs.3), and then spoke of murder. A note for vegans : it is God who changed man’s diet.  God said,

“Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

⁶ “Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.”

Mankind’s fall into sin has corrupted the world and produced a culture of violence (cf. Gen.6:11). Creation will be at war with man, man will be at war with creation, and man will be at war with man (cf. Gen.9:2). The Divine penalty of execution for murder is passed against the beasts of the field and against man. But then God specifically delegated the responsibility of the penal judgment He required to men for the murder of men.  “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed.” As we shall see, this cannot be dismissed as O.T. law. 

Let me put it bluntly  :  God has COMMANDED that if you murder a fellow man, your fellow men must punish you by putting you to death. Why? Man was created in the image of God. Your crime of murder attacks the image of God in man. Your crime of murder is a direct attack on God. Your punishment is not murder, as some claim. Your punishment fits, is proportionate to, your crime. This is not some archaic, barbaric, evolutionary social construct. This is the clear command of the Holy wise God who created man in His image.

God’s commands must be obeyed. Psa.119:4 says, “You have ordained Your precepts, That we should keep them diligently.” (cf. Matt.28:20). Bleeding heart liberals may seem to be loving and compassionate, but they are not. Those who choose to willfully disobey God are rebels against God, are the enemies of God, and are haters of God.