Rockerduck
Well-Known Member
Look at it this way. The Lord through prophets and Apostles gave us tools to deal with these situations. All you need is God.We don't know that this was not done by those in the church.
Perhaps the pastor thought,since the authorities charged with prosecuting man's law did nothing about this threat for years,despite the pastor reporting the offender,that if he did to the terrorist what the domestic terrorist yet again threatened to do to the pastors wife and babies, beat them, the domestic terrorist would realize the sheep he'd been terrorizing for years actually had the ability to fight back.
All of you who judge this pastor have no idea what he and his congregation suffered from this man making terroristic threats for years,as reported.
You stand on your Bibles and insist others behave as you believe is righteous in the face of violent evil.
You insist, if someone,like the young man in the report,breaks into our home with the intention of beating our family,raping our wife and daughters,and ultimately act to slaughter the lot of us afterward, that you believe those under attack should take it!
And not fight back. Because you must please Jesus and agree to be destroyed by evil.
Because God,you think,would be disappointed if you didn't.
Some even try to lead others to believe God in the Old Testament isn't every bit of who he said he was.
When he led his faithful to war. Slaughtered the unborn,infants,children,women,men.
All in an effort to extol the virtues of pacifism in the face of evil?
Amos 3
6.Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster come to a city,
unless the Lord has done it?
Jesus was God the Father of the Old Testament. If we're Christ like as Christians,when Christ came to conquer evil,we aren't suppose to concede to the power of evil and let it overcome those who are Christ like. Not when Christ is a war God who stands against evil.
Do not resist an evil person?
You all preach what others should do. Succumb to violence without resistance.
But would you really let a man break into your house and rape your wife in front of you,and do nothing to stop him?
If so,guess what?
You're the evil person.
Proverbs 25:26
Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.
Psalm 91:4-5-
He will cover you with His pinions,
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.
5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;
Romans 8:31 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
2 Timothy 1:7 -For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.