hey christians! your bible clearly tells you to turn the other cheek yet you send your sons to kil strangers.?

Question

just wondering whats up with that?

hey sloppy if u think the bible is a source for accuracy & fact u r truly disturbed & im not american where politics & religion will be your eventual demise due to idiots like u.

Answer 1

The unwritten law of self defense states:

Turn the other cheek, but when you've run out of cheeks ... BLAST 'EM!

Answer 2

Turning your other cheek, that applies to individuals. When it comes to national policy, there is a new set of rules; basically cause state and church are separate, each in its own way.

But even individuals turning the other cheek, church people will tell you that ain't exactly conveinient in every circumstance. When Jesus said it way back when, the world was a much simpler place.

You must remember, too, that church people take the whole Jesus thing with a grain of salt. They may affirm their holiness explicitly, whereas in the implicit aspect they can pretty much take it or leave it.

And that whole heaven-hell thing, they're not entirely sure about that either.

Answer 3

Are Christians the only ones who have sent their sons or daughters to war... and isn't sign up a voluntary thing. Last I heard we got rid of the draft.
This Christian happens to believe we are in Iraq under false and reprehensible pretenses. But as there are men and women dying over there many with the full belief that they are acting on behalf of more than just us silly Americans I will not detract from their service or dishonor them.

Answer 4

The passage about turning the other cheek was speaking to individuals and telling them not to strike out in anger when being insulted. It has nothing to do with governments whom God uses as his instruments of judgment here on earth.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Answer 5

all of Jesus coaching have been under the old regulation ten commandments. yet Jesus ushered in a clean covenant at his death on the bypass, a will in elementary terms is going into result while the guy who made it rather is shown lifeless, Jesus died on a bypass 2 hundreds years in the past to do away with the sins of the excellent international never to work out them lower back, Jesus additionally ushered in a clean covenant at his death on the bypass (hebrews 10:sixteen,18. this is the place we as christians stay immediately under the recent covenant and we live in the recent testomony, Jesus fulfilled the old regulation with the help of jogging in appropriate love all the thank you to the bypass and love replace into the fulfillment of the old regulation. however the misplaced are nonetheless under the old regulation. in case you have a will while will it bypass into result. a testomony, a old testomony, a will, a old will, a regulation, a old regulation those are each and every of the comparable in God eyes.

Answer 6

When the Bible says "turn the other cheek", it means that when you are being persecuted because you believe in God, hold your tongue so that your reward in heaven will be great. Killing is different from murdering. People that go against GOD and not YOU because of GOD is what the Bible probably ment. I think that it ment that when go against GOD, and not YOU, sometimes God would just strike them dead. The main point is, these pertain to two different situations.

Answer 7

sad fact. Preachers are to be held accountable in accordance with TIM but the whole idea of accountability is neglected in the church and merchants run the boards even though Jesus kicked them out of the Temple. No accountability leads to people with hidden agendas leading in our churches, and thus the young getting involved in capitalistic imperialism.

If we practiced accountability what do you think would have happened to Bush. Excommunication.

Answer 8

It tells them to do that too. You can justify pretty much any action, no matter how horrific, using the bible.

And then you can refute it using another part of the bible. Making it completely useless as a moral guide.

Answer 9

It boggles the mind doesn't it? Perhaps it would be different if we would just

Walk the talk

I hate wars

Answer 10

Many people make the mistake of believing the Bible says, “You shall not kill,” and seek to apply this command to war. However, the Bible actually says, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). The Hebrew word literally means “the intentional, premeditated killing of another person with malice.” God often ordered the Israelites to go to war with other nations (1 Samuel 15:3; Joshua 4:13). God ordered the death penalty for numerous crimes (Exodus 21:12; 21:15; 22:19; Leviticus 20:11). So, God is not against killing in all circumstances, but rather only murder. War is never a good thing, but sometimes it is a necessary thing. In a world filled with sinful people (Romans 3:10-18), war is inevitable. Sometimes the only way to keep sinful people from doing great harm is by going to war with them.

War is a terrible thing! War is always the result of sin (Romans 3:10-18). In the Old Testament, God ordered the Israelites to: “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites” (Numbers 31:2). See also Deuteronomy 20:16-17, “However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them--the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites--as the LORD your God has commanded you.” Exodus 17:16 proclaims, “He said, "For hands were lifted up to the throne of the LORD. The LORD will be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation." Also, 1 Samuel 15:18, “Go and completely destroy those wicked people, the Amalekites; make war on them until you have wiped them out.” So, obviously God is not against all war. Jesus is always in perfect agreement with the Father (John 10:30), so we cannot argue that war was only God’s will in the Old Testament. God does not change (Malachi 3:6; James 1:17).

Jesus’ Second Coming also is exceedingly violent. Revelation 19:11-21 proclaims, “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter." He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great." Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. The rest of them were killed with the sword that came out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.”

It is an error to say that God never supports a war. Jesus is not a pacifist. In a world filled with evil people, sometimes a war is necessary to prevent even greater evil. If Hitler had not been defeated by World War II, how many more millions of Jews would have been killed? If the Civil War had not been fought, how much longer would African Americans have had to suffer as slaves? We must all remember to base our beliefs of the Bible, not on our emotions (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Ecclesiastes 3:8 declares, “there is…a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. In a world filled with sin, hatred, and evil (Romans 3:10-18), war is inevitable. Some wars are more “just” than others, but all wars are ultimately the result of sin. Christians should not desire war, but neither are Christians to oppose the government God has placed in authority over them (Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:17). The most important thing we can be doing in a time of war is to be praying for godly wisdom for our leaders, praying for the safety of our military, praying for quick resolution to the conflict, and praying for minimum casualties – on both sides of the conflict (Philippians 4:6-7).