Bible Highlighter
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What a troll.
This is a Christian Forum, and is designed to espouse Christian doctrines. So either Obey Christ or find another forum where your views more closely match those who are about to perish.
Bobby Jo
Again, you will be hard pressed to find any doctrine teaching violent self defense in the New Testament. Many try to use Luke 22:36 as justification for this but they don’t understand that the following lesson with the sword involving Peter in Matthew 26:47-56 was one of non-violence because Jesus rebuked Peter in five different ways for taking up the sword. So the sword was a lesson in Non-Violence and not Violence. In fact, after Peter’s sword blunder incident, you will not find the disciples even having swords let alone them even using them for violent self defense reasons as many of you falsely imply or suggest. Read Acts of the Apostles. You will find no swords. This makes sense because the disciples were beaten (Acts of the Apostles 5:40), and Stephen was stoned (Acts of the Apostles 7). These events in Scripture would not make sense if they had swords. The only way that swords would make sense in these kinds of narratives is if they were invisible swords that would materialize when they needed them, and or the swords existed in some kind of pocket dimension that they could access at any time they wanted.
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