You’re not much of a Christian if you think guns are the problem. Just another liberal claiming to be on our side while trying to disarm us.
I agree. “To every thing there is a season. And a time to every purpose under Heaven’’.’’ A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together’’.’’ Onward Christian soldiers...’’
He has posted this before. If you google his screen name and freerepublic.com it will return the listing.
They must have been removed or something.
I knew I had seen this previously.
Trying to stir up the troops I think.
We do have a nation that is threatened, but as you said the solution is not CW. Anyone advocating that is suspect.
Yeah. I caught that, too.
"But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. " - Luke 22:36
Sell your cloak and buy a sword was an instruction by Jesus to his disciples. He wanted them to be armed.
It is a laudable personal choice to forgive someone who injured you. However it is your duty to stop that (often insane!) person from doing more harm to others. I am sure you are aware of the quote where a certain millstone is referenced. If there is a killer on the loose, just like it happened in Newtown, isn't it a prescribed duty of any capable adult to stop further harm? If a slave ship docks near your village, isn't it your duty to oppose enslavement of your children using all available avenues? If, after all other ways failed, you need guns to stop an attack, you'd better have them. (That choice could be made for you; pirates often come armed.) God may want you to be peaceful, but He does not want you to be extinct.
I am sure you are also aware of the parable of a religious man who, in a flood, drowned while waiting for God to save him because he refused help from mere humans who were sent by God? It perfectly applies here. The term "instrument of God" was not just invented yesterday. God probably would like1 such an instrument, a good person, to be at Sandy Hook, armed, and stop the killing in its tracks. This would have happened if the society was left to its natural way of development. But too many people today claim to know better than God what God wants, and they are tying the society in knots with their reasoning.
A good Christian, if he was wounded by Adam Lanza but found himself in position to shoot the killer, would do so; he would make sure that the body of Mr. Lanza is not a threat anymore. Only then he would be free to forgive the tortured soul of Mr. Lanza.
[1] This can be trivially derived from a very likely conjecture that God did not want those children to die.
That is a sick statement. Jesus did not use weapons. Christians don’t put their faith in guns. If they r called to be martyrs and suffer for their faith that is coidered a blessing direct from The Lord. The so called Christians in this country need to a cf actually read the Bible rather than being spoon fed from the pulpit.
Roger that.