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Originally Posted by stmatthew
Prax,
From my POV, "Love Your Enemies" supersedes any attempt to take the life of another person for their acts against yourself or your family. If they are enemies of my wife, they are my enemies, and I am commanded to love them. One cannot fufill the command to love their enemies while taking their life at the same time.
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First of all I am NOT talking about doing something to someone for what they have done,. I am talking about keeping someone from doing harm or stopping them in the course of doing harm.
Second of all, even God is love yet that does not stop him from taking a life. I wonder if one can keep the command to love you neighbor as yourself and yet allow that neighbor to be physically harmed even to the point of death when you had the ability to stop it and when that only way to do so was to use violence...even violene that could result in death. Love you neighbors and enemies does not just apply to taking a life. It applies to doing any sort of harm, phsycial or verbal. It means not lashin out at them. Do we love our enemies when we ban them? :-) Or is it necessary yet nothing personal? We don't ban people because we don't love them. We can still love them, but sometimes it's something that has to be done for the greater good of others.
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But just so you have the balance, One full of love can love their enemy and at the same time grab hold of him and keep him from hurting the wife, the attacker, or himself, and have no anger towards the attacker that would cause him to do bodily harm to him.
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That is my point. But only in an ideal world can you just tap someone on the shoulder and say "excuse me, can you stop pummeling your wifes face in?"
For what ever reason...they might be armed...they might be bigger and stronger or younger than you (in you case) and if you just tried to pull them off you might be rendered useless to help that person any further. Sometimes physical violence is the only recourse. It does not mean you have to kill them, but it does mean you might end up killing them or bringing them close to death
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