Indeed, God does command [require, expect, will] our surrender!
> Indeed, God does command [require, expect, will] our surrender!
Nope. There is a heap of difference between submitting and surrendering.
I *never* surrender. Not even once. "Surrender" is not in my vocabulary: I do not have a white flag and I *never* quit: I'd rather die than surrender.
I will, however, voluntarily recognize higher authority and submit to it. This is what God wants from us. I am but a lowly Private in the Lord's Army, and that involves taking orders and doing what I'm told. But I'm a volunteer, not a conscript.
And I do not have permission to surrender arms, ever. Not the sword of the spirit, not the breastplate of righteousness, not any part of it, not to anyone under any circumstances.
Surrender? It will *never* happen. Dunno what the word means. Allah and his followers might. If God wants surrendering folk, maybe He doesn't want me on His side. I'd rather prefer to think He'd want me as a bodyguard, because I won't surrender, ever, to anybody, under any circumstances. And I fear nobody in Heaven or Hell or in the dominions between: respect, yes -- but fear, no.
*DieHard*