Our enemies? The USA is just another Nation following in the steps of Sodom. Should we fight for Sodom? We would be fighting against God.
You don't realize how wrong you are in looking at the USA in that way; same with any of the western Christian nations. Just because Christ's enemies have crept in and God has allowed it for His greater Purpose doesn't mean we are not still His people.
It was for ALL situations. Give mercy, get mercy from God.
"All those who take the sword will perish with the sword."
Even for Christ's disciples when He told them to go buy a sword in Luke 22:36? Was their sword for show only, or cutting bushes, etc.?
Where do you find rights for Christians in the NT? Certainly not in the Sermon on the Mount.
God is Who gives rights to us, and that's what our U.S. founding documents are about, recognizing God as the Giver of rights, not the state. They originate from God's Word and His law. Luke 22:36 about the sword is one of those rights, as Christ showed there. It's why the U.S. Constitution includes the 2nd Amendment declaring the right of citizens to bear arms to protect themselves, their family, and their nation.
Hebrews 8:13 (NKJV)
13 In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete.
ALL THE LAW is fulfilled by love. Christians are not to do harm to anyone for any reason.
Not what Paul said in Gal.5:14. The idea is all the law is consumate, filled, rendered, realized, in the Lev.19 commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself. The word "fulfilled" in the Greek doesn't mean 'obsolete'. The Old Covenant is what was made obsolete, not all of God's laws, which that commandment to love thy neighbor as thyself from Lev.19 is from God's laws.
By 'punish' you mean kill? Perhaps there are some here but Christians don't kill others.
The commandment as written in the KJV 'thou shalt not kill' is about 'murder'. Thou shalt not MURDER. Killing in war, or of a murderer of the first degree is a different matter. God covered that, as Christ did too when He told His disciples to go buy a sword in Luke 22:36.
I don't. I love sinners.
So The LORD's Righteous decrees should be secondary, so as to allow a sinner to murder and get away with it?
Didn't you know? Those "in the office of administering the law" are quite often "the wicked".
So that's reason to do away with all systems of the law today?
Christians are not under THE LAW of Moses even though you are trying to mix Law and Grace, it won't work. It's much better to be under Grace. There is NEVER a valid excuse for Christians to resort violence against anyone else. Mercy is much better.
John 1:17 (NKJV)
17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
I'm not mixing law with Grace. I'm showing you the NT Christian Doctrine regarding God's laws like our Lord Jesus, and His Apostles taught. Paul said the law is good, if a man use it lawfully (1 Tim.1:8). Paul showed what the law was made for; for the unrighteous and unholy and profane, murderers, whoremongers, liars, perjury, etc., per 1 Timothy 1.
That John 1:17 verse was given about Christ coming in the flesh to offer us His Salvation...
John 1:14-17
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
15 John bare witness of Him, and cried, saying, This was He of Whom I spake, He That cometh after me is preferred before me: for He was before me.
16 And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
(KJV)
Our Lord Jesus fulfilled what God's law could never do, the promise of Eternal Life through believing on His shed blood on the cross. That's the difference. That never meant the destruction of God's laws, but the fulfilling of an operation that God's laws was never meant to do, nor can do. This is why Paul taught in Eph.2 and Col.2 just what parts of God's laws were fulfilled upon Christ's cross, the commandments given in ordinances. That's a different portion than God's moral law, and laws that govern this earth and society.