Should I buy a sword?
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Including, especially defending oneself when under attack by evil. The defense must be appropriate to the attack, be it moral seduction or physical. Swinging a sword when Satan is encouraging our hungry Lord to change rocks into bread isn’t an appropriate defense.
Quoting Scripture when Satanists are trying to chop your head off is not appropriate either. Following Christ means sometimes it’s time to get physical, buy a sword, flip over tables at the market, whip at people.
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Jesus commanding his Disciples to buy swords nullifies the implied ideology that God is a pacifist.
If that were ever true he wouldn't have armed his Disciples. And his people in the Old Testament and have commanded them to war in his name.
Acts 5:1-11Ananias and Sapphira were struck dead for lying to the holy spirit.
Interesting, Deism upholds a passive God.
Whereas Theism upholds an active one.
You misunderstood my comment ... I said it would be a sin not to help (intervene) when someone was being attacked.
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It's much more than that. Examine the entirety of the Bible, which has been said to be the most violent book ever written.
God is so pissed, he wipes out humanity except for 8 people. Then, he's so outraged as his "chosen people" he wants to annihilate them; it takes Moses to talk him out of it.
Then there is the 2nd Coming. The first thing Jesus will do is annihilate his enemies with a "sword" coming out of his mouth. Then, he will rule with an iron rod - THE EXACT OPPOSITE of living out a pacifist ideology. Finally, there is Judgement Day. Jesus becomes the greatest killer in history, so hell bend to destroy evil that he will literally resurrect the dead just to annihilate them in the Lake of Fire, known as the 2nd and Eternal Death. Violence is God's plan to ultimately solve the problem of evil. WWJD, except in that way, eh?
And he told us to buy a sword in the meantime.
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