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What do you think?
No. Jesus is God. God is immutable. God ordained wars and wholesale slaughter in the Old Testament, and will lead the charge at Armageddon.
I think we can gauge by Matthew 10:34 ("Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.") and Revelation 19:15 (From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.) that Jesus was more than likely NOT a pacifist.
However, it would appear upon examination of Matt. 19:19 (love neighbor as yourself), Matthew 5-7 (Sermon on the Mount), and even Luke 10 (the Good Samaritan) that Jesus himself calls us (who are not God) to be pacifistic.
No. How many pacifists chase merchants out of a place with a whip and knock over tables with animals for sale?
What do you think?
No. Jesus is God. God is immutable. God ordained wars and wholesale slaughter in the Old Testament, and will lead the charge at Armageddon.
What do you think?
Christians for the first centuries were pacifists.
D. L. Moody, C. H. Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Vernon Grounds, etc were pacifists.
Whom did they follow?
https://spurgeonwarquotes.wordpress.com
By pacifism, I mean opposition to war, killing, or doing someone physical harm, on moral and religious grounds.
That's not the picture of God that Jesus presented. Remember turn the other cheek?
And God is very clear in His instructions aout OUR role [We are not God.]
"Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”says the Lord. On the contrary: “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink."
...[the governing authority] is God’s servant, an agent of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
https://textsincontext.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/romans-13-in-context-sword-pacifism/
Do some of you really think God and Jesus are as bloodthirsty as you seem to picture them?
Do some of you really think God and Jesus are as bloodthirsty as you seem to picture them?
Why does believing that Jesus was not a pacifist mean that one believes He was "bloodthirsty".
I think you have hyperbolized our belief.