Love is not defined as looking the other way when it comes to evil.
Start with Revelation 2:6 to get things moving back into context.
Jesus told his followers to even sell the clothes off their backs and buy swords with which to smite their enemies with. So just what does that make Jesus the Christ ?
It is really very simple. It is like with the Gays, I do not hate them I hate what they do.
If there were mooslimbs during His time, he probably would have made exceptions.
you can love them all you want.. but God holds us accountable for protecting and providing for our own families, wife, husband, parents, children, grandchildren, siblings, cousins, in laws... ETC.
If we let the crazies kill or harm those for whom we are accountable, God will NOT approve. We can turn our own cheek... ONCE. Not a requirement that we do so as a NATION twice or three times... and under no circumstance can we expect our families to turn their cheeks and face destruction... as we are sworn under oath to God to love THEM more than our own bodies.
There comes a time to sell your cloak and buy a sword. Jesus said so himself... and Jesus is NOT wrong. Ever.
It is righteous anger at the actions of Jihadists and terrorists to kill and torture for no reason. It is frustration with the Obama administration and others for encouraging terrorists and releasing terrorists.
It is a moral and honorable desire to protect our families, our country and our way of life.
There is nothing more immoral than refusing to confront evil.
Edmund Burke said “all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing”
Allowing evil to succeed is not Christian or moral.
There’s nothing “un-Christian” about having a healthy sense of self-preservation nor does a Christian outlook preclude self-defense or defense of one’s family and community. Those who claim otherwise are traitors to their families, their community their religion and to humanity.
Righteous anger. Some people need killing.
Because turning the other cheek is not a suicide pact.
1 Samuel 15:2-3, God commanded Saul and the Israelites, “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”
Me thinks the modern world mistakenly equates criticism for hate.......
I hate militant Muslims because they are vicious, murderous, lunatics. All other Muslims I profoundly disagree with. That’s not the same thing as hate. Disagreement is about ideas. Some ideas are incompatible. It’s still not hate. I see them as entrapped and so I might even feel sympathy, if we must define everything in terms of emotion. The militant element does make me feel caution more than I used to. If things keep increasing it may rise to the level of extreme caution.
As for the category I said I hate, even those people I would not hate to the degree of violence except to the point of defending myself and others. In Christianity, vengeance belongs to God. He will repay.
I am really sick of the misuse and abuse of the word “hate.”
Revelation 12
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
How do you justify our military service? When they started issuing sidearms to officers in the Air Force, I asked my brother if he could use it. He said he didn't know. I told him he better decide quick.
You need to decide the answer to your own question quick because the enemy is at the gate and it matters little what we think.
The OT contains many warnings about tribes and nations, particularly those in opposition to God and Israel.
I have no doubt that if Islam predated scripture, it would contain warnings about Islam and the wrath muslims would incur from God and His people.
I have lived in the Muslim world and have written about our experiences (The Gathering Storm, Dailey) from a Christian point of view. There is a balance to be struck between xenophobia and legitimate security concerns. I found many Muslims to be commendable, but they were unable to stand against the violent impulse at the heart of their religion.
I don’t know of any Christians that actually hate Muslims. Obviously there are plenty of Muslims who hate Christians and Jews, though. You don’t have to hate them to be protective of your family and yourself.
No one here hates muslims. They hate islam. Like hating communism, nazism, King George. Not that hard to distinguish.
If Islam motivates a muslim to want to kill us, then we have a problem with them. There is an inherent right of self defense, even for Christians. Preferably, instead of fighting them because they follow their religion, we should be actively working to convince them why their religion is phony, ridiculous and barbaric. However, that wouldn't be allowed in a morally relative age, so we must suffer them getting worse every generation.
TTFN.
Historically, every nation, including Christian nations, that adopted a wimpy view toward Islam was annihilated.
Nowhere does the Bible teach that God’s people are simply to bow their necks, and the necks of their children, to evil.