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Jan 23, 2006 · ( Matthew 5:39-44 ) Does Jesus' teaching that we should turn the other cheek and love our enemies mean that it is always wrong to go to war? Should the world have turned the other cheek to Hitler and tried to love him into surrender?
Jan 4, 2022 · Obviously God is not against all war. Jesus is always in perfect agreement with the Father ( John 10:30 ), so we cannot argue that war was only God’s will in the Old Testament. God does not change ( Malachi 3:6; James 1:17 ). Jesus’ second coming will be exceedingly violent.
Jan 15, 2024 · Updated January 15, 2024. Two thousand years ago, Jesus spoke about wars and rumors of wars coming at the end of the age. Violence dominates the headlines and arguments between political and religious positions today. Many experts wonder whether current events could lead to another world war.
Statements of Jesus and other Considerations apparently legitimizing Warfare for Christians.—There are, however, a number of passages and incidents in the Gospels, which are thought by many to show that Jesus’ disuse of violence and disapproval of war were not absolute, or at any rate are not binding on his followers to-day; and it remains ...
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Does Jesus’s teaching in the sermon on the Mount to “turn the other cheek” and not resist evil require pacifism on the part of Christians? Since most religious pacifists ground their convictions in a purported nonviolent “love ethic” of Jesus that is understood to be the teaching of Matthew 5:38–42, it is imperative that the meaning of Jesus’ teach...
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus is not setting aside the idea of restitution itself, nor the “law of the tooth” (the lex talionis as a standardof public justice. Rather, Jesus is challenging his listeners to consider their attitudes so that they respond properly to personal injustice or insult. That insult (personal injury) rather than assault (p...
Thus, Jesus’s injunction not to resist evil (Matthew 5:39), contextually, must be located in the realm of personal injury, not state policy. Matthew 5–7 is not a statement on the nature and jurisdiction of the state or the governing authorities; rather, it concerns issues of personal discipleship. Its affinities are most closely with Romans 12:17–2...
May 4, 2024 · Rather, Jesus reigned victorious over sin and death precisely because he didn’t engage in the ways of war. Even as the Word who was with God in the beginning, and who was God, and through whom...
Despite the immense evil of war, Jesus said it is inevitable that wars will continue until He returns (Mark 13:7-8), and He did not oppose earthly governments or their right to maintain armies (Matthew 8:5-10).
