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Re: Can a Christian be a soldier or police, and kill someone, and still be a Christian?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:48 am
by ken_sylvania
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:51 am
Josh wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:30 am
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:10 am Everyone talks a big game until you have to defend you own family. Then the talk stops. Trust me. :o
There are plenty of testimonies of nonresistance people choosing not to do exactly that. I can refer you to some books, if you wish.
Please do.

I must have sat under all the wrong sermons or something. Sorry for the outburst.
Try "Awaiting the Dawn" by Dorcas Hoover.

Re: Can a Christian be a soldier or police, and kill someone, and still be a Christian?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:02 am
by mike
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:51 am
Josh wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:30 am
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 6:10 am Everyone talks a big game until you have to defend you own family. Then the talk stops. Trust me. :o
There are plenty of testimonies of nonresistance people choosing not to do exactly that. I can refer you to some books, if you wish.
Please do.

I must have sat under all the wrong sermons or something. Sorry for the outburst.
https://www.berkshistory.org/multimedia ... -massacre/

Re: Can a Christian be a soldier or police, and kill someone, and still be a Christian?

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:31 am
by HondurasKeiser
mike wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:02 am
steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:51 am
Josh wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:30 am

There are plenty of testimonies of nonresistance people choosing not to do exactly that. I can refer you to some books, if you wish.
Please do.

I must have sat under all the wrong sermons or something. Sorry for the outburst.
https://www.berkshistory.org/multimedia ... -massacre/
I thought of this story as well.