Do you think the term "holy war" is a oxymoron? Why or Why not?

Answer 1

I don't believe that it is any more so than I believe that Christianity is Christ-like.

Answer 2

Yes, "holy war" is an oxymoron. Holy implies good, beneficial and war implies destruction, chaos. It's an oxymoron like 'clean dirt" or "military intelligence."

Answer 3

particular. The Muslim ideals and the quran state that the Muslims are to go away peacefully and in accordance to God's love. there is no such project as a holy conflict. There wasn't any justification for the crusades, there is none for the Jihad. And faith oftentimes promotes this insanity. i do no longer help faith. I do stand for God and his actuality, that all and sundry adult males could walk in his love and seem his ability, and harm the works of the devil. it is the only style of 'holy conflict' i might ever condone, that's a spiritual one for the bible states that we try against no longer against flesh and blood, yet against principalities (rulerships) and dominions, and non secular wickedness...

Answer 4

The term is stupid within itself. What has it ever accomplished?

War is war, whether Buddha and Jesus are fighting in the ring or not.

Answer 5

Holy war? Keep my hole out of it.

Answer 6

Indeed, an oxyMORON with a BAD end,
biblically called latter end "worse"-end,
due to being "more the CHILD of hell",
than other hypocrites, fools, vipers,
and blind guides sit in Moses' Seat.
http://www.godshew.org/LatterEnd.htm
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory3.htm
http://www.godshew.org/Allegory4.htm

Law is holy, but also unholy(2Tim 3).
Grace also holy, but it's never unholy.
Pst - from such(unholy) turn away

Law is war-ing: Jesus division-all.
Grace is peace-full, never dividead.
Pst - Christ(end of law) is our peace

Law is good, but also evil(concupiscence).
Grace is also good, but it's never evil(law).
Pst - discern(a-void) "both good and evil".

Law is "spiritual", but "spiritual wickedness".
Grace also spirit-u-all, but it's never wicked.
Pst -mind not high things, be not highmindead

Comparing spiritual things(law law) with spiritual(grace),
the over-all more-all is: "grace is sufficient"(no law req'd).

The over-all objective is compare-i-son, not mix-tu-are.
For the mix-tu-are is an oxyMORON with a BAD ending.
(Grace + Law = Life + Death, does NOT end with Life)

Eg: Congressman John Lewis said, prior to wars in Afghanastan and Iraq: "War does not end strife - it sows it. War does not end hatred - it feeds it. For those who argue war is a necessary evil, I say you are half right. War is evil. But it is not necessary.
War cannot be a necessary evil, because non-violence is a necessary good. The two [law and grace] cannot co-exist".

POINT: Law & Grace are "contrary" one to another, and the mixture of "contrary" things makes one thing: "one proselyte", which is notably "twofold" rather than onefold, also notably "more the child of hell" than former hypocrites, fools, vipers, and blind guides who sat in Moses' seat: Law Law (Mt 22 & 23); For the second of such Mt 22 Law Law is notably "like the first", and the first of Rom 8's Law Law is sin and death, which is a dead end, via Law is the "strength" of sin's death sting: 1Cor 15:56, and such a Death rider is followed by hell, such as holy war, even "war in heaven", if ye(do err) loose law on earth, since "whatsoever ye loose on earth" is "loosed in heaven"; But war in heaven notably ends with Law cast out and no place found for it to go other than going "to and fro the earth" (as a walk about) to see who it may (earthy, sensually, devilishly) deceive as the ministration of condemnation, and thereby after devour(destroy) as the ministration of death;

Not to mention "law worketh wrath"(God hath not appt'd us unto); And when it comes to fierce anger on the day of wrath, well, such becomes the "no escape" sort of "destruction" called "perdition", which some of "them" in Heb 10:39's two "them"s draw back to, rather than go on unto perfection(grace). And when "they say"-ers say Peace & Safety (in law worketh wrath), well, then sudden destruction comes upon "them", since God hath NOT appt'd "us" unto wrath(law), and there's no them at all in "us-ward", which is why the exhortation: come out from among "them", since "as in Adam("them": Gen 5) all die", is extinction, not salvation. Selah.

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

jihad means "struggle". war can never be holy.