I'd say that the Bible makes a much better case for abstaining from marriage (and all related activity, of course) than from self-defense. How many people do that anymore? It's one of those practices that has a tendency to cause a negative growth of the community that adopts it. Still, I agree that Christianity is about more than the life of the body.
So the Christian who wishes to give up all the practical necessities of preserving life (like food, water, and air) may be going past what Christianity really commands, but at least has a logically consistent reason to personally abstain from self-defense as well. But the person who demands anyone else give up the necessities of their own life to avoid making him feel uncomfortable has departed all company with Christ's teachings.
I can see this becoming more and more common as enemies, foreign and domestic, ramp up their war on messiah and his followers.
Also, please note that Mosul, one of the larger Iraqi cities, was predominantly christian with some 1.5 million citizens, but was taken by only 3000 isis jihadsters.
It was taken because the christians of Mosul would rather lose their city, their homes, and their lives than actually pick up a gun and fight. And lose them they did, yet they could have wiped out the jihadsters easily if they had just stood up to them.
Keep the lesson of Mosul in mind when it comes time to stand up or run away.
People that deny self defense, in the name of Christianity are not Christians, they're just stupid. If any one of them wants to take a bullet, rather than resist, go right ahead. I'll be alive and reloading, and they'll be just dead. Then they can explain to their Maker why they threw their life away in some idiotic fit of pseudo Christianity when G*d gave them a perfectly good life. Oh, and how many people they DIDN'T evangelize, feed, heal, protect, teach, and fellowship with, because they thought Christ was as stupid as they were. If Jesus Christ is actually G*d (and He is) don't you clowns think that as smart as He is, that if He wanted you to just lay down for whatever thug showed up to murder, rape, and rob you, that He would have just said so? But He didn't, did He? Ichabod, all you idiots, Ichabod.
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I'd say that the Bible makes a much better case for abstaining from marriage (and all related activity, of course) than from self-defense. How many people do that anymore? It's one of those practices that has a tendency to cause a negative growth of the community that adopts it. Still, I agree that Christianity is about more than the life of the body.
So the Christian who wishes to give up all the practical necessities of preserving life (like food, water, and air) may be going past what Christianity really commands, but at least has a logically consistent reason to personally abstain from self-defense as well. But the person who demands anyone else give up the necessities of their own life to avoid making him feel uncomfortable has departed all company with Christ's teachings.
I can see this becoming more and more common as enemies, foreign and domestic, ramp up their war on messiah and his followers.
Also, please note that Mosul, one of the larger Iraqi cities, was predominantly christian with some 1.5 million citizens, but was taken by only 3000 isis jihadsters.
It was taken because the christians of Mosul would rather lose their city, their homes, and their lives than actually pick up a gun and fight. And lose them they did, yet they could have wiped out the jihadsters easily if they had just stood up to them.
Keep the lesson of Mosul in mind when it comes time to stand up or run away.
Father Tokarev always accompanies me to Church
People that deny self defense, in the name of Christianity are not Christians, they're just stupid. If any one of them wants to take a bullet, rather than resist, go right ahead. I'll be alive and reloading, and they'll be just dead. Then they can explain to their Maker why they threw their life away in some idiotic fit of pseudo Christianity when G*d gave them a perfectly good life. Oh, and how many people they DIDN'T evangelize, feed, heal, protect, teach, and fellowship with, because they thought Christ was as stupid as they were. If Jesus Christ is actually G*d (and He is) don't you clowns think that as smart as He is, that if He wanted you to just lay down for whatever thug showed up to murder, rape, and rob you, that He would have just said so? But He didn't, did He? Ichabod, all you idiots, Ichabod.
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