Jan,
Only a fool would think that evil will end with the execution of Osama. The Bible is clear about evil and when it will end. Here's a problem I have. On one hand you say Christ is of peace. Yes the Bible clearly tells us this. So this part of the Bible you say is correct. But where Christ acts out in a rage (a righteous rage) and where the Bible foretells the war Christ will fight, you throw up arguments about how unreliabel or possibly inacurate or who really wrote a particular book in it. This is how you dismiss the responsability of our states to use the sword against those that do evil. Again, Osama was in the middle of planning attacks on US trains. Now being that the US was criminal in going into Pakistan in the first place so you believe. Who has the resposability to prevent those attacks exactly and how? You refuse to separate the resposability of the state and how we conduct our day to day interaction with others. Romans clearly shows us the distinction. Evil is real. Can I ask you how would you have Osama brought to justice? Keeping in mind, we cannot go into Pakistan, they won't arrest him for us as, have't for the past 10yrs. Jan the way it would have worked out if your view prevailed is that Osama would never be held to account. He would live his days in that luxury compound working on those terrorist attacks on trains. Where is any justice in this? But your view gives no other result but that.
I think the problem is that you can't wrap your head around the fact that a person can have to kill and yet be a person with Christian love. Any justified violence or future violence shown us in scripture you dismiss with the excuses that I have mentioned. You must take the scripture in it's entirety or dismiss all and not use it as a support for you views. So does the scripture have any authority for you? Is it just a case of selective use for a view point? We are to love one another according to scripture and the state can us the sword according to scripture. I knew growing up that my parents loved me and I also new that if I did drugs, I would have been thrown out or if I had pulled a crime they would have called the police on me. If I killed an innocent person they would not blame the state at my execution. They would be weeping for me.