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Jesus to his disciples -> “Go and purchase swords to kill one another with.” That’s not the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. That’s the teaching of ”another Jesus”.

Washington was wrong. The Chaplains were wrong. Christians from here killed Christians from there, and Jesus? Well, you think he’s pleased with his followers killing one another. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/nonviolence/blessing-the-bombs

The nations of the world are perfectly capable of warring against one another without Christian participation.

Thanks. I just wanted to know what you thought about it. I agree with you that they are incompatible ideas and that the second idea shouldn’t be taught to newbies.

What was the position of Christianity before the Just War theory?

Currently being taught on the forum: ”You are not a follower of Jesus if you aren’t armed, ready to kill.“ Is that teaching consistent with ”be like little children” @LoveYeshua? Would you teach that to a newbie?

Jesus and the apostles do not teach the followers of Jesus to model the “thousand yard stare” to the world. That is not what the Messiah wants the faces of his followers to look like. That is not what the faces of his followers look like when they are doing what he commanded them to do (Matthew...

“There will no longer be any curse” (Revelation 22:3) ”... herem is therefore used in Zech 14:11 as a metaphor for a genocidal form of war that intends nothing less than the complete slaughter and destruction of the enemy (see Isa 34:2; Jer 31:40), and the promise that it will never again...

War is not a good thing. War is a terrible thing. It is a curse on mankind. Let those who teach the followers of Jesus to kill their enemies say it plainly: “Jesus wants you, nay, he commands you, to do a terrible thing!”