Thank you HiredHand. I agree with your comments, and I enjoyed them. My one thought beyond what you have said here is this. As far as your comments go, I agree. There will be times when we are pushed hard, and have to react.
Dennis Praeger states that allowing evil to transpire is evil. And so reading what you have written, I want to touch on the need to oppose evil, even if it ultimately includes violence.
As you state, we need to let the Lord exercise vengeance. I just want to make it clear that if some evil is in progress at the moment or during a period of time, we need to oppose it by whatever means necessary.
Your comments didn’t imply otherwise, but I did want to touch on that point.
You take care.
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