Posted on 07/18/2014 10:05:00 PM PDT by Morgana
Christians don’t have to revolt. All they actually have to do is get off their butts and go vote rather than wait for God to act. I blame them as much as I do the leftists.
How many evangelicals are above getting involved in the muck of politics?
“A true child of Christ doesn’t kill.”
A true child of Christ doesn’t commit murder. Big difference.
Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, 1971
RULE 4 - Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules no more than the Christian Church can live up to Christianity.
Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:4–21 – The Ten Commandments
Leviticus 19:34 (NIV, © 2011) 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
Matthew 5:38–5:42 – “turn the other cheek”
Matthew 7:3-5 – “speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye/ plank in your own eye”
Matthew 7:12, and Luke 6:31 – The Golden Rule
Matthew 22:34-40 – “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 6:27–31 – “love your enemies”
Luke 6:37 - “Do not judge, and you will not be judged”
James 2:10 - 10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
A true child of Christ does not center his life on violence (two swords are enough) but is willing to use deadly force as needed in God's work (go and buy a sword). It may be time (past time?) for a few more Christians to "sell their garments".>P> We have a duty to respond lovingly toward gays. The issue is that encouraging and celebrating sinful behaviors is not loving, especially when those behaviors are the primary means of spreading a disease that has killed 30 million people worldwide and continues to kill nearly 2 million a year. The hateful response is the liberal one of "go ahead, anything you enjoy is good".
‘A true child of Christ doesn’t kill.’
You might want to read the Old Testament a little closer.
‘So, to shoot a socialist is to “kill” and is not murder?’
In the Old Testament when someone killed someone the elders came to him and he would explain why if it was thought justified he was free to go his way. Murder is different and is viewed in the Ten Commandments as being so. It says “Thou shalt not murder, not thou shalt not kill.
Old story when a killing took place in Texas the Rangers first question was, “Did he deserve killing?”
‘I understand your consternation, but to shoot every one you thinks is a socialist is not the way to go.’
No one is advocating that with their comments.
I would have to look it up, but there is a point in scripture about bending pruning rods into spears. Also something about selling ones cloak for a sword. So this stuff about Christians supposed to be milquetoast is a lot of rot.
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