Are our soldiers risking their lives committing a sin?

Question

If killing is a sin as one soldier asked earlier and everyone was so quick to remind him it was a sin, one of the top 10....then does that mean all you Christian's out there think our soldiers who risk their lives for YOU so YOU can have the freedom to practice YOUR BullSh&t religion are going to hell? If you think this way, you should be sent tothe middle east and stand in front of our troops and then turn your cheek so they can have some cover...

Answer 1

There be no sin except'n wastin' rum. Arrrggghhh!

Answer 2

rab2344,
This reminds me of something out of Henry V, the William Shakespeare play.

I'm sorry that it's a bit long, but I thought that your question reminded me of it, and that it was pretenant to what you were asking.

KING HENRY V
So, if a son that is by his father sent about
merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the
imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be
imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a
servant, under his master's command transporting a
sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in
many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the
business of the master the author of the servant's
damnation: but this is not so: the king is not
bound to answer the particular endings of his
soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of
his servant; for they purpose not their death, when
they purpose their services. Besides, there is no
king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to
the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all
unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them
the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;
some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of
perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that
have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with
pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have
defeated the law and outrun native punishment,
though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to
fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;
so that here men are punished for before-breach of
the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where
they feared the death, they have borne life away;
and where they would be safe, they perish: then if
they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of
their damnation than he was before guilty of those
impieties for the which they are now visited. Every
subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's
soul is his own.

Answer 3

Killing in an unjust war is a sin. So yes, our soldiers have been placed in a position by our national leaders of in mortal danger not only for their lives but also their souls.

My religion has survived nearly 2,000 years of persecution through communism, the attacks and expansion of Islam, the Roman Empire, and other attempts to crush it. That all have failed lead me to hardly fear Iraq, a country that practiced more religious tolerance under Saddam than it does today and than it will in the future.

These soldiers are NOT preserving our freedom in the Middle East.

Answer 4

i will not trust what your asking and interior a similar breath income from the liberty you've and the peace of recommendations, all because our youthful adult men in uniform are obtainable protecting your us of a and theirs. homicide is a sin. homicide is the objective to kill yet another. protecting his us of a and probable having to kill the enemy isn't a sin. Abusing the actual undeniable reality that one is a soldier and killing for the exciting of it, is a sin. I doubt that any authentic Christian would savor killing every person. it really is a very last degree to look after what they understand is ideal. And convinced, they are going to be forgiven in the journey that they obviously repent. God knows their heart. He knows everyones heart. To you very last question. you're affirming it as in case you had a plan already. Oh, today i will kill that man or woman then i will ask for forgiveness. It doesn't paintings that way. in case you're a Christian, you doesn't have those recommendations. Repentence is a real favor to rid your self of the sins you've dedicated and then no longer doing it back, with God's help. As I stated, you won't be able to fool the only which could see into your heart.

Answer 5

The sword has been given to the Government by God. Your right that one shouldn't kill. but if you are the government you can conduct war, for protection of your people. If our Government just decided to go to war against a race such as the Jews or middle-easterners because we are racist then yes it would be wrong and a soldier should stand up to their own Government against such an atrocity. We don't just walk around killing people.
When any of us have taken a life, it has been for the simple purpose of staying alive another day. unfortunately, we will not all be coming home. If you lost a friend out here, maybe you'd understand a little better.

Signing out from Iraq,
Jett the christian

Answer 6

Yes killing is horrible no matter who does the killing. When soldiers enlist in the army they do so knowing that they will be forced to kill. Who's freedom are they fighting for? Certainly not mine! I could still practice Buddhism if the war in Iraq was not going on.

MANDEE:
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves"
- Buddha -

Calm down, you obviously do not understand what I am trying to say. They are still taking human lives, PERIOD, and when you sign up in the army you expect to do that. The problem is people think violence is the answer to everything, but remember Gandhi? See what he solved without war?

"He who abuses his abuser is the worse of the two. To refrain from retaliation is to win a battle hard to win. If one knows that the other person is angry but refrains from anger oneself, one does what is best for oneself and the other person also. One is a healer of both"
- Buddha -

Answer 7

What about the passage in Romans where Paul said that the government has the right to use deadly force to enforce justice? (Romans 13:1-4). Peter also made a similar point.

If you never read the Bible, be careful about taking passages out of context to spread your false teaching. I believe that the Bible in several places pronounces curses on those who would twist the word of God for their own purposes.

Answer 8

Perhaps y(our) soldiers, sent to kill or be killed, are risking everyone's lives: all the kingdom of God located "within you". Perhaps the over-all objective is: neither kill nor be killed; which is perhaps to biblical "allegory" say: neither law(condemn) nor be condemned(lawed).

Each of you have all "the KofG is within you", as noted by JC said God said. So if any of you perish, whether by killing brethren, or by being killed by brethren, by either of such law law, it's as if all the KofG within you perished... and many are the ex-amples that one cancer us law cell can and will kill all the other cells of the body, notably including those in the head of the body (some-thing that God, in Christ, the perfect man, will not have: not then, not now, not ever)... cancer us law can and will kill the whole body of Christ, whose head is God(Grace), if not removed in time;

Because the will of God is: "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice(slaughter)", notably given in Mt 9:13 as a go figure, to ye do err; go ye and "learn" what the will of God "meaneth"; And that the "not" part of such is notably not then, not now, not ever. For God never desired sacrifice for sin, which is of the law and by the law, and never took pleasure in watching such childish servantish law law. Ps 40:6; Ps 51:16; Hos 6:6; Mt 9:13; Mt 12:7; Heb 10:all. For IMPerfect law can NEVER make comers perfect lovers. NOR can law ever purge the conscience of law imputed sin and Death rider on $uch a pale(law) horse followed by hell.

Perhaps all the lying->dying->crying begins with lying(lawing).
Perhaps the "beginning" of "this gospel" is notably "sorrows".

Perhaps the over-all more-all is:
"grace is sufficient" (no law req'd)

Perhaps that is why "the end" has no mention of _ _ _.
Endure unto the end, to be saved(only) by grace(only).
The other wise (alternative) is saved + destroyed after.
But this wise, of twain, is "earthy sensual and devilish".

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

Answer 9

Whew! Some rage there, heh? Can't say I blame you. I'm pretty pissed off myself. Killing for Jesus or Killing for Allah - seems contradictory to say the least.
I would bet that this 'sin' you speak of is one reason most soldiers are 'troubled' and suffer from all the sicknesses the VA are trying to ignore?

Answer 10

Christians equivocate on this commandment (and most others as well).

For some reason they make a distinction between killing and murder. There are all sorts of nuances there, though the commandment seems pretty straightforward.

Most of the bible belt states have enacted "no retreat" laws allowing one to kill any intruder in one's home without first establishing a threat on their own lives. They can legally exact the death penalty with no repurcussions, just as god intended.

"Love thy neighbor as theyself" is another commandment that never reached any noticeable level of popularity.

"Ding don! Avon call..." BLAM!!!!

"Girl Scout cookies for sa..." BLAM!!!!

Answer 11

My brother in law was just home on a 2 week break from Iraq. He said they are not just killing people over there. They only kill when they are attacked during a mission. Their missions are to retrieve & move supplies from one base to another. So no, it is not a sin in my book....kill or be killed. If someone was attacking you here you wouldnt just sit there without doing soemthing. Same there, they are being shot at so of course they are going to shoot back


ANY ROTTEN BASTARD WHO THINKS ARE SOLDIERS THAT ARE OVER THERE FIGHTING FOR THIS COUNTRY ARE SINNERS, YOU ALL SHOULD ROT IN HELL!

BUT i do not think we should be over there, neither do 85% of the soldiers there. For the moron above, yes they enlisted in the services knowing they might have to kill, but they did not know under what circumstances. Say more terrorists came here & stared a war, you with the stick up your a*s wouldnt be outside trying to defend sh*t, our soldiers would be! They dont have a choice if they want to go to Iraq or not....they have to. SO DONT BLAME THEM FOR SH*T!