Peace or War? What price Freedom? What price Peace?

Question

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword,"
-Jesus
Before I get my...1. Yes, I do know the meaning, it's only a question.

Answer 1

Freedom is free! It doesn't cost a thing for freedom, it only depends on what type of government your country has that makes the people free. Therefore it doesn't cost you anything for freedom unless you count taxes as paying for freedom and soldiers don't fight for your freedom, they fight for no reason(Iraq).

Answer 2

I would choose peace over war. Freedom is a state of mind and therefore is free until your freedom encroaches mine. At that time either fighting ensues or both parties make an attempt at understanding. The price of peace is mutual respect.

Answer 3

Unfortunately the price for FREEDOM and for WAR is the same; Humanity. Whether your fighting for peace, or at war for war's sake, the price paid in human life will always be great. To kill your fellow man, a man has to reduce the human being to less than he is. creating an internal superiority over the opponent. It's hard to kill someone equal to you, but as history has shown us, man can kill Barbarians, Chinks, Japs, Gooks, Crouts, and a whole host of derogatory and racial slurs, that in civilized society would not be tolerated.
If we were to view everyman as a man, before war is waged, we may be able to resolve differences, or better yet; when two rules have a conflict, let them fight it out, and let the armies watch.
Jesus, came not only to bring peace, but to entreat man to view all men as equals, something few men today can say they do.
Differences in races, creeds, social status, even hair color, create bias and prejudices, which for humanities sake, should be eradicated, but will never be so, thanks to a little thing called FREEWILL.
It gives one the opportunity to choose. Unfortunately , man usually chooses the wrong path, that which is easily traveled. I guess it's easier to go through, than to go around.
Man, a disease infecting the planet earth.

Answer 4

Theres no such thing as complete 'peace'. As long as there are two people in the universe there will never be 'peace'. Its the natural law of creation and destruction. South and north pole. People will never learn to live in complete peace with each other regardless of anything said in the bible. Jesus' sword is his mouth, as far as anyones concerned. On the other hand. Jesus is neither good nor evil. He is simply balanced. Whether you want to put that into nerd words or not. He harrowed hell, while remaining centered, and being temped. I'm not saying that people can not be balanced, but they are influenced as fast as you can turn a light switch on and off. Greed and all of the above force them to try to attatch themselves to oneside or another. IE GOOD and EVIL. Most people feel it necessary, in these times of spiritual confussion, to attatch themselves to a 'winning' side. Neither side is the winning side.

Answer 5

i can not answer any better....then ~~they~~ already have.
today, especially......we must always remember the cost, for the foundation. this country was built on...
there was a price paid, not in gold........in souls.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
—George Washington

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
—Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
—Malcolm X, 1965


Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
—Thomas Paine
The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
—Dolores Ibarruri

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Inaugural address

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority...it is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.
—Frank I. Cobb, 1920
in La Follette's Magazine

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
—Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1800

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1778

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
—Thomas Jefferson

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
—Thomas Jefferson

...whenever any form of government becomes destructive...it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it...
—Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence, 1776

Answer 6

think of it this way the road to peace is very long and filled with a lot of potholes along the way to get past the potholes you have to fill them up that's where war comes in so I guess what I'm saying is the road to peace is paved by war.

Answer 7

The price of freedom is being willing to fight for it. When no freedom exists you have to be willing to take up arms in order to make it so and be willing to give your life so that others may enjoy this as Jesus did for us.

Answer 8

War lives, and families destroyed. Peace we live life.

Answer 9

Listen....
Peace or War is unknown....and the Price for this currently is Bloodshed...

Answer 10

Peace through superior firepower.