Why don't you? The Old Testament is sprinkled with orders to kill those who do not accept you God. Even Jesus says that you should kill them.
"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them- bring them here and kill them in front of me."- Luke 19:27
That seems pretty straight forward and Christians are all about following Jesus orders. So then why do you not try to kill all of the non-believers?
2007-12-03 12:38:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kandy- that made no sense. First off, I have read the New Testament (several times), Jesus still said to do this, and Moses wasn't even in the New Testament.
2007-12-03 12:45:22 · update #1
You say you have read the New Testament? Very good, but I am confused as to why you take one verse, the last verse of a parable, and seek to apply that one verse to the exclusion of other Scriptures.
Please remember that the verse you quote is from one parable, spoken by Jesus just days before He went to Calvary to die for our sins. The reason He told this story is that people were expecting a real, political kingdom, NOT the death of Messiah Jesus. And Jesus told the story using the imagery most people of that time knew only too well. Jesus didn't say, "Kill your enemies." He said LOVE your enemies, and so on.
It goes without saying that there were express commands to exterminate the enemy--in the Old Testament, as Israel, the nation, was seeking to establish itself in the Promised Land. But you won't find any such commands from Jesus anywhere in the New Testament. We as believers do find commands to go into the world and preach the gospel. We do find commands to try and meet the material needs of others. We find commands to live at peace with others as much as humanly possible. Never do we find commands to kill any of those who don't believe the same as we do. Jesus Christ wants His truth carried by means of love, not hate.
2007-12-03 16:08:26 · answer #1 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some things might not be taken so literately. Kind of like saying, "Only 144,000 will be saved", it's a huge number, not that ONLY 144,000 people are going to be saved and the rest of the, say, billions of people will fry in hell.
Plus, you should try to read the parable. I am not saying that you are wrong (since the Bible sometimes have things, like in the Old Testament telling us of the tribe of Israel racially killing people).
I am a christian, and I do not know this parable (first time I have seen it), maybe you should talk to a priest? From what I understand, it is in the context of the Parable, not Jesus, the same person who spoke of Peace and Love to your enemies, wants christians who don't believe in him be murdered.
Kind of like in the Crusades (John Paul II said sorry about it, if you wanted to know ^_^)
2007-12-03 12:51:41 · answer #2 · answered by Miguel A 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Luke 19:27 is not talking about Jesus its a parable talking about a servant and his master.
Jesus's only commandments were to love thy God and to love thy neighbor.
2007-12-03 12:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One; you people need to do your homework, read the bible, and read it till you understand it!!!!!!
Two; you saying that is only going to have narrow minded, pregidist people starting problems, because some of us are non-belivers as you like to put it.
war has always been started by a difference in opinions mainly differences in religion.
2007-12-03 13:49:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the place is it in the bible? Uh oh! Its no longer in there, somebody has been mendacity to you baby! only by means of fact hello say they are christian does no longer recommend they persist with Jesus. i desire a capitalist loose industry society, no longer a theocracy. particular i'm a christian! we could looks at some stats too! * Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus lifeless * Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus lifeless * Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 10 million plus lifeless * Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million lifeless * Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million lifeless * Fidel Castro, Atheist: one million million lifeless Atheist dictators killed tens of millions of folk over the final century and murdered 1000's of hundreds in an attempt to get rid of faith itself, by means of fact, you recognize, mass homicide is the inevitable effect whilst a community turns into "too illiberal of outlandish dogmas and too prepared on severe thinking".*sarcasm*
2016-10-10 04:41:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The enemies in Luke are not people. They are temptations which shackle man to suffering. Read deeper and understand. Slay them before me tells us to bring them (evil, sin, etc) to Christ for destruction. By His teaching to us - we demonstrate Christ, which is the least we can do if we love Him because He loved us.
2007-12-03 13:13:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well..since we are christians we know that killing people isnt the way we get to heaven.
It is in the 10 commandments:
"Thall Shall NOT Kill"
The way christians handle non believers is prayer.
2007-12-03 13:21:26 · answer #7 · answered by jbertrope 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
After christ's death and ressurection things changed. Read the New Testament, haven't you heard of Moses?
2007-12-03 12:43:49 · answer #8 · answered by Kandy M 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because we are armed.. Arming atheists keeps Christians polite.
2007-12-03 12:45:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
:-)
you need to read the context of it, meaning:
1. What he said ( you quoted above)
2. When he said it
3. Where he said it
4. Whom he said it
5. What culture, and event
Hopefully you don't get it as out of the context
ps. it is OT :-)
peace
2007-12-03 12:46:12 · answer #10 · answered by Jilan A 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋