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Originally Posted by Brother Strange
We sure have a wide disparity of thought here.
Protecting your home is in NO way any form of RETALIATION. Retaliation is rendering an evil deed for an evil deed. It is the old eye for an eye tooth for a tooth mentality. That would be retaliation. The Lord would not be pleased with retaliation.
There is no scriptural concepts that would licenses us to "get even" kind of action. This is NOT charity. This would be evil. But there is such a thing as righteousness in your behavior in regards to protecting your home and even military service in time of war. There is a godly attitude to be had in it all which involves loving your enemy and doing good to those that do you evil, just as Jesus said. But, Jesus never meant for us to allow ourselves or our families to be stripped, beaten or even murdered if we have a means to prevent it. The writers of the N.T. were not brain dead.
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Elder, please read this:
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church,
entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. (
Acts 8:3)
So again I ask you, what did these men do?
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