Christians, War, and Violence

I don't defend either homosexuality or abortion. Where do you find that I ever defended those things? How is war judgment?

 

So God would send a rapist to rape your wife? You really believe God would do that to your wife? You think that is faith?

 

Haven't read the whole thread.

It's foolish to think that love means refusing to resist and restrain an evildoer. God chastens those He loves.

The commandment in the Sermon on the Mount to resist not evil is has nothing to do with law enforcement, national defense or one's civil duty to protect his neighbor. Paul states in Romans 13 that those who bear the sword are God's ministers to punish evildoers. You don't think Christians can serve in magisterial offices?

In fact loving one's neighbor as himself is a clear command to use deadly force if necessary to protect one's neighbor from his assailant, and his neighbor's wife from her rapist.

The "eye for an eye" commandment had been corrupted by rabbinical tradition to apply not only to magistrates in matters of civil law, but also to individuals in their personal and private lives and the offenses and inconveniences that arise—the smiting on the cheek, the compulsion to go a mile. Those are evil things. But they are not at the level of dismemberment. Christ did not say whosoever shall cut off thy right hand, offer thy left one, too.

Violence is the only check on the violent, and when God's enemies can be restrained no other way, then Christians must take up weapons and kill them.

 

Her also teaches that we should be our brothers keeper. So tell us all, how many homeless people do you have living in your house? In fact, the way you interpret Christ's instructions to us you should give up your house to them and move to a small shack in your backyard as anything less on your part would be an abrogation of your attempt to follow Christ to the letter.

 

Again, so you could stand by and do nothing while your 10 year old daughter was violently sexually assaulted?

 

Those things don't define what America is, and yes I would defend the US in spite of, not because of those things.

 

Jesus never forbids violence. You overstate and pervert the words of Jesus.

 

No, He does not. You are trying to project your worldliness onto Jesus. Jesus, nowhere forbids violence in any and all forms.

 

I see, so it was just fine that Hitler killed 6 million Jews and 4 million others and the rest of the world was to just stand by and do nothing? Easy for you to say as you and your family were not one of those getting killed.

 

Jesus doesn't address it at all. He doesn't encourage it, but He doesn't forbid it. And that's the problem. You are overstating and misrepresenting the words of Jesus.

 

You just said in a previous post that getting raped had to be tolerated also, so which is it?