Something me and my buddy from church were discussing, when is violence justified against someone else, from a biblical sense? See, this question was very confusing to me, because the entire OT is god using violence and nations to squash the different nations who are disobeying. Also, god does not say to give up your country, but rather assimilate to christianity. Christianity would be gone if it endorsed getting slaughtered if someone tried to kill you.
And then this begs the question, if one commits a sin against you, than are you justified in commiting a sin to protect yourself? Seeing as most self defense laws were created in the height of us being a Christian nation, much smarter people before me figured out the answer themselves.
Something me and my buddy from church were discussing, when is violence justified against someone else, from a biblical sense? See, this question was very confusing to me, because the entire OT is god using violence and nations to squash the different nations who are disobeying. Also, god does not say to give up your country, but rather assimilate to christianity. Christianity would be gone if it endorsed getting slaughtered if someone tried to kill you.
And then this begs the question, if one commits a sin against you, than are you justified in commiting a sin to protect yourself? Seeing as most self defense laws were created in the height of us being a Christian nation, much smarter people before me figured out the answer themselves.
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