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How do you feel about Christians serving in military service. Does the believe have a right to take another human life under any circumstance?

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Don't get me started!

People try to act like the New Testament somehow makes a just killing wrong when the truth is that God's moral law has never changed.

One of the 10 commandments is not to kill yet the Children of Israel killed an awful lot of people under God's blessing and direction.

Clearly there are distinctions between murder and just killing such as serving to enforce the laws of a country as a policeman or a country's security interests by being a soldier.

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It's not an easy question unless one is convinced they are serving under a theocratic system.

At the minimum the killing has to be "just". For some the question is easy when serving a country like the US. But what about serving a country (and killing on their behalf) that is run by Al Qaeda?

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That would be a question for Allah!

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Or someone who tries to take the life of me or my wife, in our own home, at 2 am.

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My father was never right in his thinking after serving two wars. Innocent people that governments call "collateral damage" die. I think that is what affected him the most.

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Funny. The only examples you can find are in the O.T.

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American armed forces aren't as "just" as you assume... come to think of it, neither is the American government and it's foreign policy. Where were those weapons of mass destruction that Iraq supposedly had?

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The New Testament never supports any type of killing in this current dispensation. We see a shift from God establishing an earthly kingdom through Israel to now establishing a spiritual kingdom through His church. Why don't you give me a scirptural definition or example, relevent to this dispensation, of a "just killing"?