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Originally Posted by ChristopherHall
I personally see and accept Christian participation in all matters accept in the personal act of taking a life. I was a medic. I understand risking one's life in service to one's country. But to participate on such a level as to serving specifically for the sole purpose of taking life...I object.
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You better thank your lucky stars everybody does not share your views or this country would have ceased to exist many years ago.
IMHO any man not willing to defend his freedom, country, etc....well I can't say what I think or I would have to ban myself.
The Bible clearly differentiates between murder and just killing as demonstrated by one of the ten commandments being not to kill yet God ordered the Jewish people to kill on many occasions.
I suppose if your family is attacked in your home and a man or men are threatening to rape or murder your wife you are going to turn the other cheek?
IMHO justifying being a pacifist from the bible is distorting it just the same as the so called "prosperity gospel" proponents do. You are taking only a portion of the Bible and using it to oppose armed conflict for a just cause.
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