ah, the beatitudes. the beatitudes are personal. HOWEVER, there are different rules as set down for a government. Romans 13 deals with the government. that a government should be the hand that deals out justice (goes to war) on a national or international level. i don't recall seeing any rules of engagement anywhere in the new testament, so i assume that the OT rules of engagement are still law.
at least that's how i interpret it. please feel free to send me any verses that would dispute my interpretation. i know only what i have been taught, but am always looking for new teachers.
Given a Christian's duty to rightly appointed authority as laid out in Romans 13, how is a Christian to conduct himself in a war between two or more Christian governments-acknowledging that the reasoning behind it might be open to doubt, and thus, honestly supportable under the obligation to authority as gleaned from Romans 13?
please feel free to send me any verses that would dispute my interpretation.
I'll reason from the verses at hand alone (specifically Romans 13). Answer the above question, and we can proceed logically from there to the right way for a Christian to conduct war. But the question above must be answered, before we can move to any theoretical war between Christians and Pagans.