Should I buy a sword?

[Justified]

Christ's command to be armed, ready to kill if need be

Where is that command, exactly? I’ve searched the whole NT and can’t find it.

 

[Wrangler]

It isn't breaking God's laws to defend those under attack by evil.

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.

 

[Gray_Joy]

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.

True.
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.

 

[markalan]

It isn't breaking God's laws to defend those under attack by evil.

If we were to witness such and do nothing,we would be worse than an unbeliever.

Jesus stopped men of the temple from stoning Mary to death under the charge of adultery.
Those men understood the law of sin.

Evil today that acts out doesn't. It is committed to sin.

And the command of God is,thou shall not murder.
Not,thou shalt not kill.

You misunderstood my comment ... I said it would be a sin not to help (intervene) when someone was being attacked.

 

[Wrangler]

Jesus commanding his Disciples to buy swords nullifies the implied ideology that God is a pacifist.

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.