10/29/24 NEW TESTAMENT AND VIOLENCE

10/29/24 NEW TESTAMENT AND VIOLENCE

Considering the clear revelation of God in the New Testament, concerning the FACT that Christians do not take up carnal weapons against anyone, and considering that the obvious PRETENDERS (instead of contenders) of the faith, family and freedom, who rattle their jaws about "the 2nd," while they either sell their loved ones or offer them freely to Moloch (the State).

I have listened to the "brave" and boisterous "patriotic" Christians of America claim that they would not allow... this and that... to take place, while they stood by, cowering as they watched the State exercise every kind of evil against family, friends and fellow Christians, such as mutilate, violate, intimidate, extricate, kill, rob, oppress family, loved ones, children. If there has not been enough to raise more than their eyebrows up to this point in time, THERE NEVER WILL BE. It is all bravado, and not heroism at all.

Actually, I am glad that I believe and follow Christian non-violence (totally separate from God's appointing the unsaved State to protect the innocent and punish the criminal) because I choose to live by my convictions, and I would probably already be dead and gone.

I do believe in Human Government and I do believe that the State has the right and responsibility to wield the sword of steel to protect the citizenry. But Christians have a different and higher calling, a holy calling to wield the Sword of the Spirit, to love our enemy (not the same as loving the evil that they do), to lay down our lives rather than take lives. As a Christian I am called to support the State in exercising its Divinely appointed work, but Christians are not called to do the work of the State or the Government when it contradicts the teaching of the New Testament.

There is no command in the New Testament for Christians to kill anyone.
There is no commendation for anyone in the New Testament, for being violent with any other human being.
There is no condoning in the New Testament for any Christian being violent against another human being.
There are clear commands and examples and principles in the New Testament, which direct believers to trust God, and to not be violent, and to die for their faith.

There is not any argument for Christian violence, which is consistent with the New Testament revelation.

I am not talking about weak, spineless acquiescence; I am talking about deliberate, aggressive obedience to follow God's word, no matter what the cost.

Culture may promote Christian violence.
Heritage may promote Christian violence.
Corrupted Christianity may promote Christian violence.
Denominations may promote Christian violence.
Christendom and human teachings in the organized Church may promote Christian violence.
But the New Testament forbids Christian violence. Don't be a follower of crafty devised belief systems. It is costly to be a follower of Jesus, but it is much more costly to not follow Him and His word.