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To: sport

No, you sometimes turn the other cheek and pray for your enemies to heap coals of shame upon them.

Proverbs 25 if I am not mistaken.

Jesus was not as pacifistic as people think he was. Do no cast pearls to the swine. And just before the Judas kiss, he urged his men to arm up and fight. Peter was the only one willing to. That is why Jesus said that to live by the sword is to die by it. [In other words — certain death, dude. You’re outnumbered.]


25 posted on 08/13/2016 5:09:24 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Obama giving away the internet: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3407691/posts)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
That is why Jesus said that to live by the sword is to die by it. [In other words — certain death, dude. You’re outnumbered.]

Gideon was outnumbered. That's not a factor with the Creator of the universe.

Judges 7:7 And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust inchariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

Matthew 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Self-defense (a fact of life) is an inalienable right, endowed by our Creator. But even it can become an idol.

33 posted on 08/13/2016 6:00:43 AM PDT by Theophilus (If slow learners were relevant, we wouldn't get zotted.)
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