(BernieEOD;27451)
Sorry, but when we were called up, our job was domestic harbor security. Our mission was to kill any enemy frogman who tried to attack the harbor and to disarm any bombs he suceeded in planting. You are telling me I had a duty to Christ to allow him to blow people up? I once had a rapist who threatened my family and when i warned him of the consequences, he went to someone like you to rebuke me for it.
I can stick by God's revelation alone. Christ said, “My kingdom is not of this world,” and steadfastly resisted all human efforts to make him king. When two of his disciples wished to call down fire upon some who did not acknowledge his divinity, he rebuked them, saying, “Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.” And when Peter drew his sword in defense of the Master, he was sternly rebuked.Quote: “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.” A peacemaker is not one who steps in between two persons or parties who are fighting, and makes them cease their battle. One may do that and not be a peacemaker, since people may cease fighting and still not be at peace. To avoid strife is a far more effectual way of making peace than to leave it off after it is begun. The peacemaker, therefore, is the one who is himself at peace. He is the one in whose heart is the law of peace, and whose mind is stayed on God. “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”Christ said, “Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.” It was in this connection, during the same discourse, that He continued the thought thus:—“Ye have heard that it has been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.”Such an injunction as this, in such earnest and loving terms, certainly does raise the question as to whether they who do not follow this counsel can ever be the children of the heavenly Father. Is Jesus the god of battles and strife, or is He the Prince of Peace? He says He is the God of Peace. How then can He be the god of battles? He commands peace, and says, “Thou shalt not kill.”Does He also sound the call to war, and march with the heaviest battalions? Does our God blow both the hot breath of battle and the cool, sweet blessings of peace? How is it, then, is there a contradiction here? Is He the God of battles, or not? He is not, except as He is God over all, and will make the wrath of man to praise Him,—yes, and the wrath of Satan also. For it is he, Satan, who is the god of battles, in the sense that he incites to war and slaughter.It is a curious spectacle which is presented in the far East, as well as a mournful one; a spectacle unique in human history,—two heathen nations fighting each other with the weapons and the methods furnished them by their civilised, “Christian” neighbours. Having invented and perfected weapons of awfully destructive power, these “Christian” nations furnish them for a good price to two semi-civilised powers, and then look on with great interest at the slaughter. It is verily a curious kind of Christianity which allows a nation to help its neighbours to fight, to say nothing of incurring great expense in order to be ready itself to fight at any moment. Christians are not fighters, but peacemakers." End QuoteJake