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Can you quote the scripture(s) that tell us that we have to 1/ defend our country 2/ kill our enemies?

...in order to do so?

Update:

Please provide the scriptures. Thank you

Update 2:

MK6 - you are right the NT doesnt delve into politics but why is that?

Didnt Christ refuse to get involved with the political elements of his day? Didnt Christ say that Christians were to be no part of this world?

Update 3:

Yes you are right Booth, the Jews were directed to kill their enemy but they were under a special covenant with God.

Christ established a new covenant and he told his followers that they were to live by 2 commandments - love thy neighbour as oneself and love God

Can one love their neighbour and kill them too?

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  • MK6
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    The N.T. Bible has only a few pages to talk about the new and improved stuff. It also doesn't tell you that folks have to go potty.

    The N.T. doesn't state the obvious, nor does it delve into politics.

    Edit:

    Jesus stuck to spiritual matters, - and Jesus knowing that the political and religious elites would be out to get him for any perceive infraction, - He did not want to appear that he was forming a rebellion against the roman occupation, - or siding with one political camp or the other.

    In the end, - that's the way it should be, - respecting the authority of God requires that we also acquiesce to those that have charge over us, - ie govn'ts. Yet we should vote our conscience too, and promote man-made laws that promote the good-of-society and religious liberty.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    There is none

    during war time, we would be fighting against fellow believers, whom we are commanded to love.

    John 13:34, 35. . 34 I am giving YOU a new commandment, that YOU love one another; just as I have loved YOU, that YOU also love one another. 35 By this all will know that YOU are my disciples, if YOU have love among yourselves.”

    1 John 3:10-12 , . 10 The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Everyone who does not carry on righteousness does not originate with God, neither does he who does not love his brother. 11 For this is the message which YOU have heard from [the] beginning, that we should have love for one another;

    With good reason, then, Jesus told his disciples to lay down the sword. And he even told them to love their enemies.

    Matthew 26:52, 52 Then Jesus said to him: “Return your sword to its place, for all those who take the sword will perish by the sword

  • nina
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    nope,,cant find it,,but i believe George Bush and Obama had,,,,ask them

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