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Scriptures, pls, as I have done a page back at post #96.

RIght - he told them to carry swords for a closer shaving experience. If you had read the passage in context, you would have discerned that the time for Jesus' arrest was nigh. IOW, it was not a time to defend. No, Jesus was not "condemning weaponry." Do you not know what it means to "bear...

While God can and does use the ungodly as his rod of correction, there is no separation between "church and state." There is only one Lawgiver (James 4:12). Anyone who attempts to impose otherwise, the same is a deceiver.

"The state" is not a separate entity, re: the "separation of church and state" lie. In truth, there is to be no such separation. So let's expose the real red herring. To illustrate, the "United States" is a corporation (28 USC § 3002(15)(A)), from which we get the word "corpse" i.e. a body, a...

God has never told me, a follower of Christ, to kill another follower of Christ.

There is no true separation between God and "the state."

I am prepared to do whatever God tells me to do i.e. being obedient. And, because most ppl do not read the Holy Bible for themselves but rather listen to men who talk about the Holy Bible, they do not understand the reason why God commanded the wipeout of certain cities/ppl. Indeed. However...

1) Self-defense (e.g. Jesus instructed his disciples: If you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. - Luke 22:36). 2) Capital punishment (e.g. God's servants who "bear the sword" execute wrath on evildoers, effectively sanctioning capital punishment. - Romans 13:4).

Define "Christians" (Or do you wish to exclude Israelites from your query?)

and The Israelite scenarios (re: killing one's enemies) I mentioned are OT. Believers in the NT are to love and forgive enemies, renounce violence and condemn murder.

The Holy Bible is replete with examples where God ordered the Israelites into certain areas/cities to kill every man, woman, child and animal. I won't bore you by posting the copious scriptures.

From the OP: and As always, we seek balance in scripture to understand application of doctrine. While it is true that much New Testament teaching, including the Lord's examples of "turning the other cheek", "forgive them for they know not what they do", etc. are the higher law to be practiced...

Absolutely agree. Simply more of the ubiquitous programming, desensitizing us to that satanic eventuality.

Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy - and nothing else. So there is a spiritual component driving all of this. It's a numbers game for Satan; he needs mega soulless bodies for his boyz to inhabit, as core occultic doctrine would have his deceived ragtag "army" kicking God's buttocks at the...

Of course followers of Jesus Christ were first called "Christians" at Antioch. That's never been the issue. Rather, the issue is: who called them that? Who did the calling? "...And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." (Acts 11:26). When one "calls" another, the one doing the...

Haven't looked into it yet. Quick guess would be at least for A.I. surveillance and control, which is already light years ahead of what we've been told/sold. One moving part has long been that every person on the plane is to be tethered to the hive mind via their digital twin. Wireless networks...

This mess began in the garden. Voting is very unscriptural. Not true, as you admittedly voted for mere men to continue cracking the whip over your head. Now that is the takeaway of this thread.

Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath...

and Neither does the word "God" appear in the entirety of the Manifesto of the Communist Party. Of course it can be. An omission (a failure to act or a missing fact) can definitely be evidence. In both law and daily life, the absence of something expected can be just as powerful as an active...

Just coincidence.