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To Keep or Not to Keep: Why Christians Should Not Give Up Their Guns (review)
The New American ^ | 12 August, 2013 | Joe Wolverton, II J.D.

Posted on 08/13/2013 5:19:36 PM PDT by marktwain

Christians not only have the right to keep and bear arms, but they have the obligation to do so in the defense of freedom. This is the powerful and provocative thesis of a new book by Tim Baldwin and his father, Chuck Baldwin.

In their book, To Keep or Not to Keep, the Baldwins — Tim is a Second Amendment scholar and attorney, while Chuck is a minister and former Constitution Party presidential candidate — argue that “Christians should not give up their guns.” They back up their claim with logic and scripture, a rare combination even among gun-rights advocates.

The authors warn readers:

Gun opponents have been highly successful in disarming the citizenry of other nations. So the threat to America is real, not just theoretical. If something does not seriously change in the attitude of Americans, our future looks similar to those who have lost meaningful and free gun possession. Unfortunately, this kind of self-defense-rejecting philosophy is becoming prevalent in America. But only one philosophy will ultimately prevail. The philosophy that succeeds will determine between two very different futures.

The Baldwins draw a clear and critical distinction between simple gun possession and meaningful, divinely-dictated gun possession.

It likely sounds strange in the ears of many Americans that God has commanded his children to own weapons and to wield them in defense of liberty. To Keep or Not to Keep presents an overwhelming cache of compelling evidence that this is indeed the case.

There are, of course, those believers that cling to the notion that government licensing of the right to keep and bear arms is reasonable and that the Constitution should be interpreted accordingly.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; christianity; guncontrol; review; secondamendment
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This seems a worthwhile subject.
1 posted on 08/13/2013 5:19:36 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Something about selling your cloak....


2 posted on 08/13/2013 5:20:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: marktwain

Ping for reference


3 posted on 08/13/2013 5:22:31 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: reed13

for future purchase


4 posted on 08/13/2013 5:23:58 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: marktwain

protecting the innocent from criminals - govt or otherwise - is a good and godly duty. protecting people from all unjust persecution, especially when govt’s’doing it - is good and godly to do.


5 posted on 08/13/2013 5:24:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: marktwain
The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You cannot protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.


Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember: Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .
6 posted on 08/13/2013 5:26:47 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: BenLurkin
Something about selling your cloak....

That is the verse, and it means exactly what it says. It counsels arming ourselves but also moderation - reminiscent of Ecclesiastes. Jesus was not just the modern hippie image of love and non-judgmental forgiveness, he also gave the command you referenced and cleaned out the temple rather forcefully.

7 posted on 08/13/2013 5:33:24 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Yosemitest

The gun confiscators are monsters. There is only one way to stop them.


8 posted on 08/13/2013 5:35:46 PM PDT by Noumenon (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: Yosemitest

Really wish I had a laser sight.


9 posted on 08/13/2013 5:39:25 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: marktwain

‘THOSE WHO BEAT THEIR SWORDS into plowshears will soon be the SLAVES of those who DID NOT beat their swords into plowshears...’simple as that folk...you’d think even the most dead headed lib would get that...


10 posted on 08/13/2013 5:44:34 PM PDT by jimsin
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To: marktwain

“...and discipline of the Militia of our said Province [NH]; and for the arraying and mustering the inhabitants thereof; and instructing them on how to bear and use their arms.”
“The Military history of the State of New Hampshire”, p8

“...towns should provide a stock of powder, bullets and flints and arms for its poor,...”
“The Military history of the State of New Hampshire”, p39

“Anticipating attacks, the people went to their labors, in field and wood, not only armed, but with guards, “ 1744 “The Military history of the State of New Hampshire”, p58


“History of Ipswich”, Mass.
1637 march 9-”...no person is allowed to travel alone, above one mile from his house, except where houses are near together, without arms.”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p143

“1644 Besides the country alarum [sic] there shall be one for each town; a musket shall be discharged on alaram, to all centinals [sic], who shall answer by going to all the houses and crying Arm! arm!”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p143

“1645 -Youth from ten to sixteen years are to be
exercised with small guns, half-pikes, bows and arrows.”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p141

1648 -”In every company some under-officer shall be
appointed by the captain “to exercise such children...”
‘History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton’ By Joseph Barlow Felt, p141


11 posted on 08/13/2013 5:45:39 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: marktwain

Because it’s suicide and suicide is a grave sin.


12 posted on 08/13/2013 5:50:40 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: marktwain
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

13 posted on 08/13/2013 5:53:11 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: jimsin

Jesus commanded his disciples to purchase a sword and encouraged his disciples to have swords. See Luke 22:36-38:

Then He said to them, .....”But now, he who has a money bag, let him take it, and likewise a knapsack; ......and HE WHO HAS NO SWORD LET HIM SELL HIS GARMET AND BY ONE.

For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.” .....So they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”

Later, Peter, a disciple of Jesus, cut off Malchus’ ear with one of the swords.

In response, Jesus rebuked of Peter for doing so (John 18:10-11). This rebuke occurred after Jesus instructed His disciples to buy swords. Jesus did not rebuke Peter for having a sword for defense of self or others. Rather, the rebuke came because Peter was trying to stop Jesus from going to the cross, which God had ordained. “So Jesus said to Peter, ‘Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?’” (John 18:11).

n Nehemiah 4:14-18,.. the LORD ‘approved’ use of weapons to protect the workers who were rebuilding of the wall”

“Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and ‘with the other held a weapon’. ‘Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built…” (Nehemiah 4:17-18).


14 posted on 08/13/2013 5:53:33 PM PDT by caww
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To: marktwain

Sort of confused.... Why is the question even being asked....to keep or not to keep arms is like asking to breath or not to breath ...


15 posted on 08/13/2013 6:00:20 PM PDT by JZoback
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To: Noumenon
Give them hot lead
in the head....
16 posted on 08/13/2013 6:25:49 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Springfield Reformer

The trouble with laser sights ... is ... it reveals your sniper position.


17 posted on 08/13/2013 6:27:31 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: marktwain
I pray God gives me the wisdom to know when to fight. But can someone lead me to the scripture on this?

3. Do Not Resist Evil. The authors refute this particular argument, saying that during his mortal ministry, Jesus taught “when killing is without cause, it is unlawful, but when killing is with just cause, it is lawful.”

18 posted on 08/13/2013 6:38:59 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: stevio

Matthew 5:39.


19 posted on 08/13/2013 6:49:22 PM PDT by Vision Thing
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To: stevio
Have you not read Judges 8 ?
Have you not read Judges 18 ?
Have you not read 2 Kings 10 ?
Have you not read Jeremiah 21 ?


20 posted on 08/13/2013 7:05:32 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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