If you are going to use the Bible as authority for justified killing then I assume, like the Muslims, you live by the Old Testament, believing - erroneously - that God instructs His own creation to slaughter His own image?
What the old partriarchs and Kings did was NOT God's sovereign will and God did NOT command anyone to kill their neighbour. What they imagined as instructions to destroy their enemies is what God permitted but Jesus issued no such command. "I have come to SAVE not to DESTROY"
God permits us to break His commandments but He does not COMMAND us to break His commandments. THis is the same then as it is today.
SO, those who use the Bible as a divine justification for war are in for a big surprise when they meet Christ.
2006-06-24
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